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Level 2 Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment Training Package

With this Level 2 Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment package explore why safeguarding is important and how to keep vulnerable children and young people safe by knowing how to spot signs of abuse or neglect and what to do if this is suspected.

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Package Overview

Format

Level 2
2-4 Study Hours
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

8 CPD Points
CPD Certified

Package description

This Level 2 Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment package looks to provide learners with the relevant information including legislation, policies and procedures surrounding protecting vulnerable children when working or hiring.

This training package has been updated to be compliant with new Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 legislation and how this applies in the workplace or when working with children and young people.

Level 2 Safeguarding Children

Our Level 2 safeguarding children training gives you a deeper understanding of safeguarding issues and how to effectively report them when abuse is suspected.

To help you apply your knowledge in everyday life, we have used real-world scenarios. These scenarios and the supporting case studies will enable you to see how your training can apply to you in your role. A key aim of this training is to provide you with strong context to the training so they can easily relate to the situations presented to you within the training.

There are various topics included in this course such as:

An overview of safeguarding
Why is safeguarding important
Serious case reviews and Bichard reports
The latest legislation and guidance
Multi-agency working
Jargon and key terms
Disclosure of information from children
National and local contexts
How to reduce the likelihood of abuse
What to do if you suspect abuse, signs and symptoms of abuse
Whistleblowing
Types of abuse
Your roles and responsibilities
Recognising abuse
How to deal with suspected/disclosed abuse
Record-keeping and recording

Upon completion learners will be able to:

Apply the changes to practice made over the past three years to your work
Identify different levels of harm and follow the appropriate safeguarding procedures
Collect safeguarding children information from both a local and national context

Safeguarding Children Level 2 is underpinned by the principles of:

Working together to safeguard children
Keeping children safe in education

Safer Recruitment

It’s incredibly important that when hiring anyone to work with children the correct recruitment policy is followed. By following safer recruitment best practises and considerations, those in charge of recruitment can ensure the safety of adults and children from harm, abuse and neglect.

This course is a set of safe principles covering the essentials areas of safer recruitment including:

An overview of recruitment
How to communicate with applicants
Preparing job and personnel specifications
Application forms, advertising and references
Pre-interview checks and selecting candidates for interview
DBS checks and enhanced checking, pre-employment checks (PEC)
Induction, training, and supervision of new staff
Relevant legislation
How adults and children might become at risk

Accreditation

The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Certification

On completion of this course, you will be able to print a Virtual College certificate.

Duration

2-4 study hours to complete. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly learners can study and absorb the material.

Target Audience

This training is designed for anyone who frequently works with children and needs a more in-depth knowledge of safeguarding legislation and procedure

Entry Requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

You will learn

Recognise why safeguarding is important

Recognise the signs and symptoms of abuse

Know what to do if a child discloses information

Know how to help children who you suspect are subject to abuse

Recognise and report unsafe practices

Understand what is meant by multi-agency working

Key legislation underpinning multi-agency working

Understand why multi-agency working is important

Understand the roles in multi-agency working

Outline what is meant by safer recruitment and the practices involved

Explain how safer recruitment supports effective safeguarding practice, define pre-employment checks (PEC) and who they apply to

Identify legislation that underpins safer recruitment, and cases where a safe recruitment process could have prevented abuse

Understand how to assess the suitability of candidates

Outline the treatment of ex-offenders when working with individuals at risk

Know the six NHS employment check standards and their processes

Understand the guidance the leads to safer recruitment procedures

Who is it for?

Roles including:

Anyone who frequently works with children and needs a more in-depth knowledge of safeguarding legislation and procedure

Teachers

Teaching Assistants

Childminders

Daycare Assistants

Doctors

Nurses

Care Workers

Many more

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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.