Safeguarding Children - for Health (Levels 1 and 2)

To protect children and young people from harm, all health staff must have the competences to recognise child maltreatment and to take effective action as appropriate to their role and responsibilities. In 2006 the Royal Colleges and professional bodies jointly published 'Safeguarding Children and Young People: Roles and Competences for Health Care Staff’. The document described 6 levels of competences and provided model role descriptions for named and designated professionals.

This safeguarding course bundle is intended for all Health sector staff that fall within Staff Group Levels 3, 4, 5 and 6 (please see the Audience section for a list of staff members that fall within these four levels).

This course covers:

• Background to Safeguarding Children
• Child Abuse Awareness
• Recognising Abuse and Neglect
• If You Have Concern - Health Professionals
• Responding to a Disclosure - What You Should Do
• Responding to a Disclosure - How to ask questions
• Recognising and Avoiding Dangerous Safeguarding Practice
• Referring Safeguarding Concerns
• Chronologies
• Child Protection Processes and Procedures

Please note: course bundles enable you to learn more about a particular subject and are more cost-effective.

Upon successful completion of this course you will be automatically awarded a certificate containing the course name, completion date, CPD hours and learning objectives.

The course contains additional resource materials, useful links and a refresher guide.

The Health Safeguarding Framework identifies 6 levels of competence, and gives examples of groups that fall within each of these.

This course is intended for staff groups in Levels 3, 4, 5 and 6, i.e.:

Level 3: All clinical staff working with children, young people and/or their parents/carers and who could potentially contribute to assessing, planning, intervening and evaluating the needs of a child or young person and parenting capacity where there are safeguarding/child protection concerns.

This includes GPs, forensic physicians, urgent and unscheduled care staff, mental health staff (adult and CAMHS), child psychologists, child psychotherapists, adult learning disability staff, learning disability nurses, health professionals working in substance misuse services, youth offending team staff, paediatric allied health professionals, sexual health staff, school nurses, health visitors, all children’s nurses, midwives, child psychologists, obstetricians, all paediatricians, paediatric radiologists, paediatric surgeons, children’s/paediatric anaesthetists, paediatric intensivists and paediatric dentists.

Level 4: Specialist roles - named professionals

This includes named doctors, named nurses, named health visitors, named midwives (in organisations delivering maternity services), named health professionals in ambulance organisations and named

GPs for Primary Care Organisations

Level 5: Specialist roles - designated professionals

This applies to designated doctors and nurses

Level 6: Experts

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