Award Winning Safeguarding Children and Designated Lead training- Ofsted Recognised

Are you struggling to decide which safeguarding course to choose?

This CPD Accredited and Local Safeguarding Children Board approved online course will guide you through the information needed to understand your responsibilities to help keep children safe from harm. It includes Designated Training Lead information that is needed for childminders.

The Ofsted document 'Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills settings' states that designated safeguarding leads must refresh their training every 2 years. All childminders are the designated lead for their setting.

This course is aimed at providing an introduction or refresher about Safeguarding Children and is relevant to all who work with children in any childcare setting or young people, whether you are a Registered Childminder working alone or employing others or if you work in a large group childcare setting.

The course includes all the information needed including:

• identifying the categories and recognising the signs and symptoms of abuse.

• Child Sexual Exploitation, Female Genital Mutilation and the Prevent Duty

• explanations of responsibilities for reporting concerns and appropriate information sharing among professionals as needed by childminders as the designated lead (EYFS 3.5)

• ways which early years’ workers can help protect themselves from allegations of abuse.

• safeguarding children employers responsibility handout for childminders who employ other

• Breast Ironing

• Gang Activity- including County Lines

• Signs of Safety. An international tool that has been adopted by many Local Authorities

• external links of where to access additional information on high profile areas of safeguarding

There is a knowledge test that needs completing at the end of the module in order to pass. There is no limit to how many times you can retake the test if needed. Then simply print off your own certificate. The CPD Accreditation Service will also email you a CPD Certificate clearly stating how many hours of CPD you have accrued.

Testimonials:

'I am really happy to have passed this course as I think out of all the areas I need to know about for childminding it has given me the most concern! Because of this, I am relieved I will be able to access my learning materials again to recap before and after my registration as a childminder'

'a clear and easily understood course that contains lots of links and support to add to safeguarding files'

'Having completed safeguarding training over a ten year period, in a childcare setting, this was far more informative and helpful training with the additional facts and data'

'It was very informative and has given me a great insight into everything a childminder has to know and follow to keep children safe'

'I found this training really easy to use and very informative, much more in depth than a lot of face to face training'

'The way the module was laid out was easy to understand and follow and made learning much easier'

This course is for written particularly for childminders but is equally useful for any member of the early years and childcare workforce

No entry requirements

Those starting the Childminder registration process with Ofsted or a Childminder Agency.

Those who wish to work in any early years setting such as nursery or pre-school

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Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included