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Statutory & Mandatory Training: Safeguarding Children

With this Statutory & Mandatory Training: Safeguarding Children course, learn about child protection issues including definitions, indicators, guidance both for statutory and non-statutory, processes and legislation including a child’s rights as reflected in these. In addition, understand what child development means in the context of safeguarding and the additional vulnerabilities look-after children may have after childhood abuse and how to support them.

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Course Overview

Format

Intermediate
2 Study Hours
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

2 CPD Hours
CPD Certified

Course description

Safeguarding Children is aimed at workers who are likely to meet children at risk of abuse. This could be in a residential or school setting or in the children’s homes.

This course can be undertaken either by professionals or volunteers who work with vulnerable children.

Safeguarding children is everyone’s responsibility. This course will help you identify the signs of neglect and abuse a child in your care may suffer, how to identify the signs of neglect, and how to respond and act if you suspect a child of being abused or neglected.

Training outcomes

Know about child protection issues, including definitions, indicators, legislation, guidance and processes.
Understand the importance of children’s rights as reflected in legislation and key statutory and non-statutory guidance.
Understand what is meant by child development in the context of safeguarding.
Understand the scale of abuse and the types and potential signs of child maltreatment within the context of normal child development.
Know how abuse and neglect can impact on children’s development and how to recognise this.
Have a greater awareness of the potential risk factors which may increase the likelihood of abuse in children’s lives.
Have a greater understanding of the additional vulnerabilities of looked-after children as a result of their experiences of abuse in childhood, and know best how to support them and meet their needs (or to achieve stability and recover from abuse).

Accreditation

This course is accredited by CPD. The certificate, awarded upon successful completion, can be used to log your hours against.

Duration

This course usually takes between 1-2 hours to complete, depending on the speed of learning. Learners do not have to complete all the training in one session as progress is recorded throughout and the training can be paused and resumed in our learning management system at any time.

Target audience

This course is aimed at anyone who works with vulnerable children such as care workers, befrienders, social workers, etc.

Entry requirements

There are no entry requirements for this course.

Test and certificate

Each end of course test consists of 15 multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark, and, if necessary, may attempt the test six times at no extra cost.

If learners do not achieve the 75% pass mark, further attempts may be given by contacting our support team.

Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion of each course. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records.

You will learn

Know about child protection issues, including definitions, indicators, legislation, guidance and processes

Understand the importance of children’s rights as reflected in legislation and key statutory and non-statutory guidance

Understand what is meant by child development in the context of safeguarding

Who is it for?

Roles including:

Staff working in a healthcare environment

How the online courses work

Find a course

To begin searching for your online training you can click on the course category section on our website and browse through all of our training categories.
Alternatively if you already know the title of the training you’re looking for you can use the search bar located in the centre of the homepage and go directly to the course you want.
Buy the course

When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.
Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.
If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.
Take the course

This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.
The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.
Your Certificate

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College and will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable.
If you have bought the posted certificate option (available on select courses), a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out at the beginning of the following working week.