Description

Our level 3 e-learning child protection course is designed to give everyone who works with, or has contact with children or young people an introduction to safeguarding issues and to raise awareness of the signs of child abuse and neglect.

This course is an ideal training solution to be run along side our Paediatric First Aid Training course.

This online safeguarding children course is ideal for individual drama teachers, dramatherapy & dramatherapist staff, but also managers, or any person who works with and may come into contact with children, young adults & infants.

E-learning protecting children, course, what’s covered?

• Understand what protecting children and young people means
• Child development and negative influences on it
• Awareness of the key legislation and guidance in relation to the protection of vulnerable children and young people
• Be aware of you own professional responsibilities, as well as those of your colleagues and partner organisations
• Be able to document and report concerns relating to child abuse or maltreatment, including:
  • Taking adequate history
  • Performing a physical examination in ways that are deemed appropriate in line with current legislation relating to the protection of young people
    Assessing parenting capacity
  • The forms of abuse and signs of abuse
  • Recognising and responding to abuse, with specific guidance on note taking and recording your concerns
• Meaningfully contribute to inter-agency assessments, as well as the gathering, sharing of information and where appropriate analysis of risk posed
• Work in partnership with others, including:
  • Completing local reviews
  • Including child death reviews
  • Lessons learned from recent serious case reviews
• Inter-agency working and be supportive to families & guardians where concerns have been raised
• Be familiar with your local organisational protocols and referral processes to your local social services and how to minimise barriers in the referral process
• Be aware of your information sharing responsibilities within and across multi-disciplinary teams

On completion of this level 3 online safeguarding training drama teachers course you will be required to complete an assessment with a pass mark of 80%.

If you do not pass on your first attempt, don’t worry, as you can re-take the test as many times as you need at no additional cost.

Once completed free online safeguarding children course certification will be available as a download & print from within your own secure training area.

Course Certification
Our CPD certificate can be used to provide evidence for compliance and audit (recognised internationally) and can also be used as annual safeguarding refresher training.

All of our e-learning training courses and programs are accredited by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

We also offer a dedicated paediatric online training website, with many e-learning courses available. For additional information follow this link to our Online Paediatric First Aid Training website.