Safeguarding Half Day Course Course

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting young people. This course provides a clear introduction to safeguarding, including both traditional and contextual safeguarding, helping learners understand how risks to children and young people can arise in a range of environments. It covers key safeguarding legislation, identifies the different types of abuse, and outlines individual responsibilities in protecting children and young people from harm. The course also emphasises the importance of whistleblowing and builds learners’ confidence in recognising the signs of abuse and responding appropriately when concerns arise, are disclosed, or are suspected, ensuring effective and timely action is taken. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• Instill learners with the confidence to identify child abuse and take action
• Explain what safeguarding & contextual safeguarding is
• Understand safeguarding legislation
• Identify types of abuse
• Outline your safeguarding responsibilities
• Emphasise the importance of Whistleblowing
• Enable learners to Recognise and respond appropriately to child abuse when it occurs, is disclosed or suspected