Description

Equally important is that this course covers in depth topics on protecting children, infants and young adults. This is because these are relevant to anyone who works with or has children and young adults in their care.

Moreover, our e-learning child protection course is designed to give anyone who works with, or has contact with children an introduction to safeguarding issues.

In addition, this is to raise awareness of the signs of child abuse and neglect.

This level 3 online safeguarding children course is ideal for individual counsellors, counselling services staff, therapists, & psychotherapy staff.

In addition, this e-learning safeguarding course is also ideal for 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.
• Key legislation and guidance in relation to the protection of vulnerable children and young people.
• Aware of you own professional responsibilities, as well as those of your colleagues and partner organisations.
• Able to document and report concerns relating to child abuse or maltreatment, including:
• Taking adequate history.
• 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
• 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.
• Be aware of your information sharing responsibilities within and across multi-disciplinary teams.

It should be noted that, on completion of this level 3 online safeguarding training counselling course you will be required to complete an assessment. This online assessment has 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.

Furthermore we also offer first aid training & mental health training courses that are suitable for counsellors.

Additional information regarding this can be found by following this link to our Level 3 Online Paediatric First Aid Training, Level 3 Emergency First Aid and our video based Mental Health Training courses.

Additional Training Available
Through our paediatric first aid training website we also offer dedicated training courses for children. Additional information can be found by following this link: Online Paediatric First Aid Training.

Course Certification
Importantly, our CPD certificate can be used to provide evidence for compliance and audit and can also be used as annual safeguarding refresher training.

Finally, 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.