ANNUAL CHILD PROTECTION AWARENESS

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Annual Child Protection Awareness Two Hour Course (In House)

We are offering an Annual Child Protection Awareness Course at your organisation for up to 50 people for a low cost of £800+vat.

It’s essential that anyone who works or volunteers with children or young people has the knowledge and skills needed to help keep children safe. But what does that mean in practice?

Statutory guidance sets out the child protection requirements for people working or volunteering with children in the UK. We can offer you an annual child protection awareness course for your staff looking at the following areas:

1. Introduction and Background to Safeguarding - Why this course is important, laws and guidance and the difference between safeguarding and child protection
2. Mechanics of Safeguarding - Keeping Children Safe in Education, individual responsibilities, governing body or proprietor responsibilities, headteacher responsibilities, DSL responsibilities, training, online safety and students missing from education.
3. Recognising Abuse and Neglect - Where does abuse take place?, signs of abuse in a student, general indicators, physical abuse (bruising, bite marks, burns and scalds, fractures, scars), recognising emotional abuse, recognising sexual abuse and recognising neglect.
4. Types of Abuse and Neglect - Radicalisation, extremism and terrorism, Prevent, reporting concerns, Prevent guidance, female genital mutilation (FGM), forced marriage and modern slavery.
5. Further Types of Abuse and Neglect - Child sexual exploitation (CSE), child criminal exploitation (including county lines), serious violent crime, grooming, online abuse, child trafficking, harmful sexual behaviour, child on child abuse, cybercrime, bullying and cyber bullying, domestic abuse, self-harm and self-neglect, other issues, children with additional vulnerabilities
6. Taking Action - Dealing with disclosures of abuse, concerns about abuse, recording information, confidentiality and record keeping, the continuum of need, the single assessment process, universal services, early help/prevention, child in need, child protection concerns, identifying children who might need early help, child protection procedures, local authority child protection procedures, looked after children and safeguarding, working with parents and further resources.

This course is for any organisation that works with children and young people, no matter what sector you work in and can be run at anytime (two hour session), during the day or evening time.

Contact us for further information.