Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Awareness Training course provides care staff with the essential knowledge and practical skills to safeguard children in care settings effectively. Delivered through comprehensive, face-to-face training, this course ensures your team can recognise and respond to various forms of abuse while promoting safe practices and reducing the likelihood of harm.
Ideal for care workers and teams supporting children in residential, foster, or day care settings, this course enables participants to develop confidence and competence in safeguarding practices, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Course Description
Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Awareness Training course provides care staff with the practical knowledge and skills necessary to safeguard children effectively, ensuring their safety and wellbeing in care settings. By completing this course, your staff will gain the skills to:
- Understand Safeguarding Principles
Gain a solid foundation in safeguarding children, including understanding legislative frameworks, organisational responsibilities, and ethical considerations. This ensures care staff can act confidently and in line with best practices. - Recognise Types of Abuse
Learn to identify various types of abuse—including neglect, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse—alongside specific risks such as radicalisation, female genital mutilation (FGM), and child trafficking. Staff will develop the ability to spot signs and indicators early. - Respond to Suspected or Alleged Abuse
Understand the correct procedures for responding to concerns, ensuring swift and appropriate action in line with organisational policies and legal requirements. This helps protect children while maintaining professional accountability. - Reduce the Likelihood of Abuse
Discover proactive measures to create safe environments and minimise risks. Learn strategies for building trust, encouraging openness, and fostering respectful, inclusive care practices. - Recognise and Report Unsafe Practices
Identify practices that may endanger children and understand the importance of addressing and reporting concerns promptly. This ensures a culture of safety and continuous improvement. - Understand Principles for Online Safety
Explore the unique risks posed by the digital world, including cyberbullying, grooming, and exploitation. Learn how to safeguard children’s online activities and promote responsible internet use. - Make the Links Between Safeguarding and Domestic Violence
Understand the intersection between safeguarding and domestic violence, including how these dynamics may impact children in care. This ensures appropriate support and intervention.
Compliance and Quality Assurance
Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Awareness Training course is developed in line with Ofsted Regulations, CQC Regulations, Legislation and recognised frameworks to ensure the highest standards of care, professionalism, and compliance. For this course, we align with the following frameworks across Adults Provisions and Children and Young People Provisions:
- Care Quality Commission (CQC) Single Assessment Framework
This framework ensures that our training supports safe, effective, and person-centred care while promoting best practices and regulatory compliance. It reflects our commitment to helping your organisation meet CQC standards and maintain credibility in care delivery. Learn more (opens in a new tab). - Core Capabilities Framework for Supporting People with a Learning Disability
We integrate the principles of this framework to equip care staff with the skills to meet the needs of individuals with learning disabilities. This ensures compassionate and person-centred approaches that foster inclusion, independence, and improved quality of life. Learn More (opens in a new tab). - Core Capabilities Framework for Supporting Autistic People
Our training incorporates this framework to help care staff deliver respectful, effective, and tailored support to autistic individuals. By focusing on strengths-based care, we promote wellbeing, autonomy, and inclusion for those on the autism spectrum. Learn more (opens in a new tab). - Skills for Care Statutory and Mandatory Training Guidelines
Our training integrates the key learning outcomes outlined in Skills for Care’s statutory and mandatory training guidelines. This ensures your staff are equipped with the essential knowledge and competencies required to deliver safe, effective, and compliant care. Learn more (opens in a new tab). - Working Together to Safeguard Children Framework
We integrate principles from this framework, ensuring care staff are equipped to collaborate effectively with external agencies and fulfil their safeguarding responsibilities. Learn more (opens in a new tab). - The Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015
This regulation underpins our training, ensuring it supports safe, effective, and child-centred care practices within children’s homes. By aligning with these standards, we help your organisation meet the regulatory requirements for providing high-quality care and fostering positive outcomes for children and young people. Learn more (opens in a new tab). - Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations, including the quality standards
Our training integrates principles from this guide to promote therapeutic care approaches that meet the emotional and developmental needs of children. By reflecting quality standards, we equip care staff with the tools to create supportive, nurturing environments that foster resilience, security, and growth. Learn more (opens in a new tab). - Positive Environments Where Children Can Flourish – Guidance
Our training incorporates the principles outlined in this guidance to help care staff create nurturing, supportive spaces where children feel safe and valued. By focusing on fostering positive relationships and promoting emotional well-being, we equip your team with strategies to build environments that enable children to thrive and achieve their potential. Learn more (opens in a new tab).
Why Compliance and Quality matter:
- Compliance with Regulatory Standards: Training content is developed in line with Ofsted, CQC and other relevant frameworks, helping your organisation maintain compliance and demonstrate excellence.
- Promoting Best Practices: Framework-aligned training ensures your team applies evidence-based methods, fostering a culture of professionalism and respect.
- Continuous Improvement: We embrace the principles of continuous improvement encouraged by these frameworks, incorporating them into our training to promote reflective practice and ongoing development.
Delivery of the Training
This course will be delivered by an expert trainer in this field at a date and time of your choosing. Training can be hosted at our own premises, which can comfortably accommodate up to 12 individuals, or at your own premises if feasible and required. We are flexible on start times to help accommodate all shift patterns, including evenings and weekends.
Customisation and Relevance: We can adapt the content of this training to include your organisation’s core values, mission, policies, and procedures. By incorporating examples of documents used within your organisation, we ensure that the training is relevant and clear to your staff.
Expertise and Support: Delivered by expert trainers with extensive experience in the field, our courses provide comprehensive knowledge and skills to your team. To help your team stay updated and compliant, we can provide additional refresher courses designed to ensure that staff remain proficient in best practices. These refresher courses can be scheduled as needed to maintain high standards of care.
Please use our enquiry form or contact us by telephone if you have any queries about this training course or would like to express an interest to schedule your training. A member of our team will be happy to answer any questions.
Course Materials and Certification
All course materials will be provided, and refreshments are included. Certificates will be issued upon completion of the course, and you will receive copies of completed evaluation forms for your records.
Our Facilities
- Disability access building
- Ground flood training facilities (at request)
- Comfortable classroom lecture/study environment
- Toilet & Washrooms inc. disabled access
- Refreshments provided
- Location: Our training centre is based in Middleton, Manchester, UK. For precise directions, click here to view us on Google Maps (opens in a new tab)
Pricing and Duration
- Time required: Half a day
- Accommodates: Up to 12 people
- Price: £275
Suggested Refresher Frequency
To ensure ongoing competence and performance:
- Assess staff knowledge and competence at least annually.
- Provide additional learning opportunities as required, ensuring compliance with updated guidelines and standards, with mandatory refreshers annually.
Benefits of Our Training
Why Choose Us?
- Expert Trainers: Learn from experienced professionals who are passionate about care.
- Comprehensive Content: Our training covers all essential aspects of each topic, ensuring your staff are well-prepared to provide high-quality care and support in their specific area of practice.
- Quality Assurance: Our courses meet the highest standards, ensuring compliance with all relevant frameworks, guidelines, and legislation specific to each course, including Skills for Care recommendations, Ofsted Standards, and CQC standards.
- Flexible Delivery: Choose from face-to-face sessions at our training centre or your premises, with training available at times to suit all shift patterns.
- Customisable Training: Tailor the course to reflect your organisation’s unique values and requirements.
- Refresher Courses: We offer refresher courses to keep your team proficient in up-to-date and best practices.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- What is Safeguarding and Child Protection Awareness Training, and why is it important?
Safeguarding and Chile Protection Awareness Training equips care staff with essential knowledge and practical skills to protect children from harm in care settings. The course covers various forms of abuse, including neglect, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, as well as specific risks such as radicalisation and child trafficking. It ensures your staff can act confidently to protect children and promote safe practices.
- Who should take the Safeguarding and Child Protection Awareness Training course?
This course is designed for care workers in residential, foster, and day care settings who are responsible for safeguarding children. It is ideal for staff looking to enhance their skills and ensure compliance with safeguarding policies and regulatory standards.
- What will I learn in the Safeguarding and Child Protection Awareness Training course?
Participants will learn to recognise various forms of abuse, including neglect, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, along with emerging risks like radicalisation and FGM. The course covers strategies for responding to suspected abuse, reducing the likelihood of harm, and ensuring online safety. It also highlights the importance of reporting unsafe practices and collaborating with external agencies.
- How long is the Safeguarding and Child Protection Awareness Training course?
The course is delivered over half a day, providing staff with the necessary skills to safeguard children effectively while ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and frameworks.
- Can the Safeguarding and Child Protection Awareness Training be customised to meet our organisation’s needs?
Yes, we can customise the content to reflect your organisation’s values, policies, and procedures. We can also incorporate specific examples from your organisation to make the training more relevant and practical for your staff.
- Do you offer any follow-up or refresher training?
Yes, refresher courses are available to ensure your team stays up-to-date with safeguarding practices. We recommend refresher training at least annually, as well as additional learning opportunities as needed to meet updated guidelines and standards.
- Where can the Safeguarding and Child Protection Awareness Training be delivered?
The training can be conducted at our training centre in Middleton, Manchester, or at your organisation’s premises. We are flexible with delivery times, offering sessions during evenings and weekends to accommodate all shift patterns.
- What is the maximum number of participants in a training session?
Our face-to-face training sessions can accommodate up to 12 participants to ensure a focused and interactive learning environment.
- Will I receive a certificate after completing the Safeguarding and Child Protection Awareness Training?
Yes, certificates will be issued upon successful completion of the course. These certificates confirm that participants have acquired the skills and knowledge to safeguard children in care.
- How often should my team refresh their Safeguarding and Child Protection Awareness Training?
To maintain competence and ensure compliance, we recommend refresher training at least annually. This ensures staff remain up-to-date with evolving safeguarding policies and practices.
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