Safeguarding Children – Online Learning
This course provides a comprehensive overview of child safeguarding, covering key concepts, risks, concerns, legislation, and practical strategies to ensure the health and wellbeing of children in various contexts. With this e-learning course:
- Define child safeguarding, its importance, and relevant legislation.
- Identify different types of safeguarding concerns and recognise their signs.
- Explain your role and broader responsibilities in safeguarding children.
- Apply the “Three Rs” framework (Recognising, Responding, Reporting) to child safeguarding situations, including responding to disclosures.
- Demonstrate a commitment to creating a safe environment for children and upholding their well-being.
Available in 75 languages.
Course Introduction
Safeguarding children’s health and wellbeing is a collective responsibility and essential for a safe society. This course provides a comprehensive overview of child safeguarding, detailing its definition, risk factors, and key concepts. It covers major concerns and how to recognise them, along with essential legislation and responsibilities.
Participants will learn practical strategies for safeguarding children at both organisational and individual levels, highlighting the roles of direct and indirect child interactions. The course also emphasises the three Rs of safeguarding. By completing this course, learners will be well-equipped to ensure children’s safety and foster a nurturing environment.
Course Content
- Define child safeguarding and who is classed as a child
- Explore the importance of safeguarding children and who is at risk of harm
- Examine factors that may increase susceptibility to harm and who might pose a safeguarding risk
- Identify where safeguarding risks might occur and explore evolving risks
- Define common child safeguarding concerns
- Explain physical, sexual, psychological/emotional abuse, neglect, bullying, online safety risks, and child exploitation, along with their possible signs
- Demonstrate tactics employed by perpetrators
- Explore safeguarding concerns in your context
- Define child safeguarding legislation and other relevant laws and regulations
- Explain child safeguarding in different countries
- Define statutory responsibility and safeguarding leads and partnerships
- Explain your safeguarding responsibilities and broader safeguarding duties
- Explain child safeguarding at the organisational level
- Define responsibilities if you interact directly with children
- Explain the three Rs framework:
- Recognising
- Responding to a child safeguarding concern and to a disclosure of child abuse
- Reporting
- A chance to test your knowledge of the topic with scoring
- The e-learning course comes with free CPD certificates for the learners
Customisable
All content can be adapted and altered to suit your needs. Courses are white-label as standard, but can include logos and branding where required. We can also provide AI generated language translations on demand.
Updates
All content is regularly reviewed and updated to ensure technical accuracy, best practice and legal compliance for your learners. Updates are all automatically made to content.
Certification
Your employees will receive personalised and dated certificates upon successful completion of our CPD certified e-learning courses. All courses have relevant accreditations.
Integration
Deliver e-learning courses via your own branded learning portal provided by us or upload our regularly updated courses to your own LMS if you would prefer.
