Safeguarding Children - Level 3 - Online Course - CPD Accredited
The Mandatory Training Group
Delivery Method: eLearning Safeguarding Children - Level 3 - Online Course - CPD Accredited.
Welcome to The Mandatory Training Group's online Safeguarding Children – Level 3 training course for front-line healthcare and social care providers. All our online training courses, programmes and qualifications are accredited by the CPD Certification Service (CPDUK).
All organisations that work with or come into contact with children should have adequate safeguarding policies and procedures to ensure that every child, regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation, has a right to equal protection from harm.
Setting up and following good safeguarding policies and procedures means children are safe from adults and other children who might pose a risk. This includes voluntary and community organisations, faith groups, private sector providers, as well as schools, hospitals and sports clubs.
Course content
This online Safeguarding Children – Level 3 training course provides a thorough understanding of child protection by covering a breadth of topics relevant to anybody with a responsibility for safeguarding children and young people. This online Safeguarding Children – Level 3 training course covers the following:
- An understanding of what safeguarding children and young people means,
- Child development and negative influences on it,
- An awareness of the key legislation and guidance about the safeguarding of vulnerable children and young people,
- How to be aware of your professional responsibilities, as well as those of your colleagues and partner organisations,
- How to 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 safeguarding and protection of children and young people,
- Assessing parenting capacity,
- The forms of abuse and signs of abuse, and
- Recognising and responding to abuse, with specific guidance on note-taking and recording your concerns.
- How to meaningfully contribute to inter-agency assessments, as well as the gathering and sharing of information and where appropriate analysis of risk posed,
- How to work in partnership with others, including:
- completing local reviews,
- including child death reviews, and
- lessons learned from recent serious case reviews.
- How to participate in inter-agency working and be supportive to vulnerable children and young children, and their families/guardians where safeguarding concerns have been raised,
- How to be familiar with your local organisational protocols and referral processes to your local safeguarding team and/or social services, and how to minimise barriers in the referral process, and
- How to be aware of your information sharing responsibilities within and across multi-disciplinary teams.
Who is the course for?
This online Safeguarding Children – Level 3 training course should be completed by those who work with children including in education, community services, healthcare and social care services including:
- NHS medical, nursing, AHP and care staff
- Locum doctors and nurses
- General Practitioners and GP locum staff
- Locum allied health professionals (AHPs)
- Social workers and social care support workers
- Agency nurses
- Agency workers
- Healthcare assistants
- Support workers
- Care assistants
- Community services.
Course aims
This online Safeguarding Children – Level 3 training course is aimed at 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.
Learning outcomes
This online Safeguarding Children – Level 3 training course is designed to give everyone who works or has contact with children, young people and/or their families, an introduction to safeguarding and to raise awareness of the critical areas in the learning outcomes, including:
- The recognition of child abuse,
- How to respond to concerns,
- Who to contact when there is a concern,
- Fulfilling “duty of care”,
- Safe practice and keeping children safe, and
- Vulnerability and protection.
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Safeguarding Children - Level 3 - Online Course - CPD Accredited.