Safeguarding Children & Families Training

This course will help you to understand your basic responsibilities for safeguarding children and young people in all community settings.
About this Event

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand what safeguarding means, and the responsibilities we all have for protecting children
• Identify the four main categories of abuse, and the lesser known types of abuse
• Recognise common signs, symptoms and behavioural indicators of abuse
• Identify potential non-accidental injuries, including concerning bruising and unexplained injuries
• Understand some scenarios and how to manage real life situations
• Understand how children may communicate concerns or distress through behaviour as well as verbal disclosure
• Respond appropriately when a child makes a disclosure or a safeguarding concern arises
• Understand how to record, report and escalate safeguarding concerns
• Understand the role of LADO
• Understand Serious Agency Reviews, the process and what happens
• Develop an awareness of the legal and statutory guidelines that underpin safeguarding policy
• Understand the importance of professional boundaries, confidentiality and appropriate information sharing
• Recognise that safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and that staff should never ignore or dismiss a concern