Understanding Safeguarding Practice for Early Years Staff

This course aims to equip early years staff with the knowledge and skills necessary to help safeguard the children and families they work with. The three modules of this course provide an overview of safeguarding responsibilities for staff working within the EYFS framework. It will enable the learner to identify types of abuse and signs of abuse starting with looking at child development and the factors that can influence it. It details how to respond when you have a concern and how to follow safeguarding procedures. It also explores how to work safely and understand your ‘position of trust’.

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Stepping up to Designated Safeguarding Lead for International Schools

The aim of this course is to help you become more proficient in your role and help you to confidently protect the children with whom you work. You will gain the knowledge, skills and practical approaches to recognise, respond, report and record safeguarding concerns appropriately.

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Stepping up to Designated Safeguarding Lead

The aim of this course is to help you become more proficient in your role and help you to confidently protect the children with whom you work. You will gain the knowledge, skills and practical approaches to recognise, respond, report and record safeguarding concerns appropriately.

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Adolescent Safeguarding

This four-module interactive course is for anyone who works with children and young people. It aims to improve your understanding and approach to safeguarding and managing concerns and disclosures of abuse. It is written in Partnership with NWG Network; is a charitable organisation formed as a network of thousands of practitioners working within the field of child exploitation from across the UK. They offer support, advice, guidance and training and to help raise awareness of child exploitation.

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Artificial Intelligence and Safeguarding: Understanding the Impact on Children

Schools play a crucial role in shaping the digital future of children by guiding them through the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, digital literacy, and artificial intelligence. This course is suitable for Designated Safeguarding Leads/ Persons who would like to know more about AI technology, its risks and positive applications with children. It has been written in partnership with SWGfL – a charity ensuring children benefit from technology, free from harm.

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Online Safety Act

This one module interactive course is for all staff working with children and young people in primary and secondary education who want to learn about the Online Safety Act.

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The Governance of Safeguarding

This one module interactive course is suitable for governors working in primary and secondary school settings. It will improve your understanding and approach to safeguarding and safeguarding policy. The course outlines your leadership responsibilities for your school’s safeguarding arrangements, and includes explanations of key terminology, and legislation and statutory guidance for each of the four UK nations. It also outlines the role of the lead safeguarding governor, training in school and key policies and procedures. Examples throughout aid understanding and embed learning.

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Understanding the Role of the Safeguarding Lead for International Schools

This one module interactive course is for anyone who works or volunteers with children and young people in international school settings. It aims to improve your awareness of the importance of the designated safeguarding lead (DSL), to develop your understanding of the role in greater detail, and to show how the role relates to your own position.

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Safeguarding when Employing Tutors and Coaches

This course is for those working in an education setting that employs tutors and coaches of any discipline. It outlines key safeguarding measures for multiple teaching environments, so that you can protect the children and young people with whom you work. It includes important information about the recruitment process, data protection, health and safety, child protection, online safety procedures, and good practice.

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Safeguarding Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

There are increasing numbers of children and young people with special educational needs attending mainstream education settings and this course will give you an understanding of how to safeguard them. It covers the legislation for the four nations of the United Kingdom and highlights the main vulnerability factors that mean these children are at the highest risk of abuse. Finally, it covers good practice and there are case reviews and two scenarios to work through.

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Child Protection: Good Practice Checklist

Your organisation should develop safe ways of working where safeguarding and promoting children’s welfare is embedded into all you do.

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Our recommended courses by job role

Our service includes a broad range of high-quality training courses to meet all the duty of care needs in your setting.

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Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) – what are your duty of care and safeguarding responsibilities?

We have written a guide which contains further advice and guidance for people who are volunteering in a school environment.

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Safeguarding in international schools: 4 vital issues

An interview with our customer, Michael Clack, Regional Head of Schools, Orbital Education.

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Safeguarding in September - FREE Webinar

Former headteacher and head of our commercial team, Doug Watt, and EduCare’s Pastoral Care Expert, Dawn Jotham, ran a webinar looking at the changes in the new academic year. Request a copy of the recording today!

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Safeguarding Matters Issue 2

EduCare’s key mission is to help deliver a safer environment for children, young people and adults at risk by sharing essential knowledge and encouraging best practice.

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Safeguarding Matters Issue 3

In the latest edition of our newsletter we have covered a broad range of safeguarding and duty of care updates, including information on the sports sector’s increased focus on duty of care to athletes and participants.

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Safeguarding Matters newsletter – Autumn Issue

EduCare’s key mission is to help deliver a safer environment for children, young people and adults at risk by sharing essential knowledge and encouraging best practice.

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Safeguarding Training: The Top 5 Benefits

This infographic explains the top 5 benefits of safeguarding training.

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Supporting children and young people with anxiety

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EduCare for Health & Social Care

As the country’s leading provider of essential safeguarding and duty of care training in Education, EduCare have created an online training package designed for those who work in the care industry.

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A Bump or Abuse? Differentiating Between Types of Injury

Children pick up bumps and scrapes all the time; it’s a fundamental part of growing up. But how can you tell the difference between innocuous injuries and the early signs of abuse?

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Are Britain's Missing Children at Risk of Abuse and Exploitation?

A high number of children in Britain were reported missing and many of them may be experiencing abuse and exploitation. So, how can prevent training for education staff help address this problem?

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2017: Make this the year you stop stressing about Compliance

How do you keep on top of training new staff and providing refreshers? And what happens when statutory guidance changes? Make this the year that you stop stressing about keeping on top of compliance and leave it with EduCare.

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Why Safeguarding Training Is Falling Short of Mental Health Legislation

Safeguarding training services have been falling short of the regulations stated in the Mental Capacity Act. What are the possible effects of this and how can this be improved?

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Safeguarding in a Digital World: What are Digital Natives?

In today’s society, a whole generation of children are growing up in a world where technology and the internet have always existed. For these ‘digital natives’, online safety is a must, since almost every activity they engage in will be linked to the internet in some capacity.

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The 10 Categories of Abuse and How to Handle Them

While we are becoming more aware of the extent of abuse in our society, spotting and safeguarding against its effect on young people is still a pressing concern. Recognising the early signs of abuse can make all the difference in the fight to stamp it out permanently.

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Safeguarding children in sport - what you can do to protect children

The chief executive of the funding body UK Sport said if any sport did not take enough action to deal with the issue of abuse, it would reconsider its funding.

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The Way We Hurt Has Evolved

Bullying has a new digital face - Online Bullying - Bullying is no longer confined to the school playground, home or workplace. It is all around us in this digital age, which often feels inescapable.

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Does E-Learning Work in the Health and Care Sector?

E-learning courses are widely used in most organisations today. You may wonder though how it will work in the health and care sector? Learn about the advantages, the challenges, and how you can use e-learning in the health and care sector.

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Mountain Training Association

The Mountain Training Association (MTA) is a membership organisation set up by Mountain Training to support people working towards their qualifications and develop people who already have them. Now well established with over 4,000 members it is the nationally recognised membership organisation for climbing, walking and mountain leaders in the UK and Ireland.

The MTA are committed to fostering progression and encouraging good practice, and as part of this, all Mountain Training award holders are encouraged to complete safeguarding training.

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The Independent Schools’ Bursars Association

The Independent Schools’ Bursars Association have produced two bespoke online training courses with us which are accessed by their members. The courses offer a comprehensive online introduction to the statutory safeguarding regulations for independent schools and their health and safety responsibilities.

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The Council for Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre (CDMT)

All CDMT Recognised Schools and Teachers are entitled to discounts from a range of our Safeguarding and Duty of care e-Learning courses.

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The Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Service (CSAS)

CSAS have a bespoke package of seven online training courses which they provide for free to all their catholic schools and community groups to access.

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The Education Network

The Education Network is a leading education recruitment agency finding jobs for permanent and temporary education staff and teachers nationwide. The Education Network take safeguarding and duty of care seriously and offer selected EduCare courses to key schools they are working with.

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The National Association of Independent Schools & Non-Maintained Special Schools (NASS)

The National Association of Independent Schools & Non-Maintained Special Schools (NASS) is a membership organisation working with and for special schools in the independent, voluntary and private sectors to improve opportunities and standards for special schools outside of Local Authority control. NASS is an endorser of EduCare’s safeguarding and duty of care courses.

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Childcare.co.uk

Childcare.co.uk is the UK’s largest childcare and tutors online social networking platform for parents, childcare providers and private tutors. EduCare has teamed up with Childcare.co.uk to provide their gold members with free access to a range of EduCare’s safeguarding and duty of care courses.

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British Schools in the Middle East (BSME)

EduCare and BSME work together to offer high-quality, effective online safeguarding training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to British International Schools.

BSME member schools are eligible for a 10% discount of EduCare for Education^®.

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COBIS

The Council of British International Schools is a member organisation of high-quality British schools from across the world. Safer Recruitment for International Schools and Child Protection for International Schools are included within EduCare for Education: International and have been produced in conjunction with the Professional Development Team at COBIS to reflect the unique needs of an international audience.

COBIS Accredited Members and Candidate Schools are eligible for a 10% discount when they purchase EduCare for Education^®.

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Family Lives

Family Lives is a charity with over three decades of experience helping parents to deal with the changes that are a constant part of family life. Their role is to support everyone, including parenting professionals to achieve the best relationship possible with the children. Family Lives contribute to and endorse our range of child protection and safeguarding courses.

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Safeguarding Matters Autumn Issue

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Safeguarding Online Training Courses

Online Training Courses for Safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults EduCare is a market-leading provider of high-quality and concise safeguarding and duty of care e-learning courses. We offer individual safeguarding training courses you can buy online, as well as cost-effective training packages for those who need to train larger teams. Our robust reporting suite enables you to meet and evidence all your compliance ...

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Safeguarding Primary Schools

Let EduCare provide the reassurance you need Request a Free Trial Request a Quote Request an Online Demo Designed for your sector This version of our leading e-learning service contains imagery and content specifically designed for primary schools. Sold as an annual licence, our online learning service allows unlimited access for all staff including new starters, governors, support staff and volunteers all year round. ...

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Safeguarding Secondary Schools

Let EduCare provide the reassurance you need Request a Free Trial Request a Quote Request an Online Demo Designed for your secondary schools This version of our leading e-learning service contains imagery and content specifically designed for secondaryeducation. Sold as an annual licence, our serviceallows unlimited access for all staff including new starters, governors, support staff and volunteers all year round. This unlimited access ...

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Safeguarding Training

Online Training Courses for Safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults EduCare is a market-leading provider of high-quality and concise safeguarding and duty of care e-learning courses. We offer individual safeguarding training courses you can buy online, as well as cost-effective training packages for those who need to train larger teams. Our robust reporting suite enables you to meet and evidence all your compliance ...

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Safeguarding training for charities

Safeguarding training for charities|Are you compliant? Protecting people and safeguarding responsibilities should be a governance priority for all charities. EduCare can help protect you, your staff and the people you work with. Our package of online safeguarding and duty of care training courses contains all you need to comply with all Charity commission safeguarding training requirements. The package is priced at a rate that ...

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Safeguarding training for children's residential homes and alternative provision

Safeguarding training |Are you compliant? Children’s homes and alternative provision units provide support and care for some of our most vulnerablechildren and young people. EduCare can help protect you, your staff and the people you work with. Our package of online safeguarding and duty of care training courses will help you to comply with Ofsted and CQC inspection requirements. The package is priced at ...

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Safeguarding training for dental practices

Safeguarding training for dental practices| High-quality CPD The General Dental Council advises that "Regularly keeping up todate in essential safeguarding topics makes a contribution to patient safety". EduCare can help protect you, your staff and the people you work with. Our package of online safeguarding and duty of care training courses contains all you need and will help you to comply with the General ...

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