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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Child Protection Training: Sport Coaching’s Safeguarding Responsibility

Abuse cases in sports coaching across the UK have had an alarming amount of publicity in recent years. Accounts ranging from very severe to more systematic examples of abuse have begun to shine a light on the issues faced by the coaching community and their safeguarding responsibilities.

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Child Protection Training at International Schools: The Differences

No matter if you’re new to working in international schools, or have a wealth of experience; the safeguarding of your students is always a priority. This blog should help to inform you why safeguarding training is so important at international schools — and why it can be more complicated, too.

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Mental Health Awareness Week and Safeguarding Training: Surviving or Thriving?

For Mental Health Awareness Week, we take a look at how to spot, and how best to help, those with mental health problems.

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Safeguarding courses that reflect an international audience

We have recently developed 2 of our most popular safeguarding courses to reflect the diverse student population and the broad variety of cultures and traditions unique to international schools.

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Mental Health: 9 great ways to relax

However busy you are, it’s important for your mental health to take time out for yourself, relax and recharge the batteries. This guide will show you how.

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Vacancy: Business Development Executive

We are recruiting for a target driven and persuasive Business Development Executive to join our growing sales team in Leamington Spa

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Tackling sexual harassment in schools

Kidscape CEO, Lauren Seager-Smith, has provided this blog on the topic of sexual harassment in schools which has received a lot of media interest recently.

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What is Prevent Duty and Why is it Crucial for Schools?

In modern Britain, we have developed into a very multicultural society. For example, there are over 300 languages spoken in our schools today. The fact that society has grown in this way could be seen as one of the most prominent parts of Britain’s history in the 20th century. We see this as something to promote and be proud of. The growth of a diverse culture that strengthens humanistic thinking could be beneficial to many.

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Safeguarding Training in Boarding Schools: Regulations to Expect and Learn

Working in a boarding school is a fantastic opportunity. The relationships we have seen grow in boarding schools are truly special things. We want to help you feel as comfortable as possible if you’re about to start working at a boarding school, to help you develop a lasting impression amongst your colleagues and students.

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Colleges and Universities - our safeguarding support has just got better

Our safeguarding training package designed for Colleges and Universities has now increased from 5 courses to 10, whilst remaining at the same great price!

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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^®.

Video: Managing safeguarding in international schools

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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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AAIE

Exclusive 10% discount for AAIESchools on our online learning service EduCare andAssociation for the Advancement of International Education(AAIE) work together to offer high-quality, effective online Safeguarding and Duty of Care training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to International Schools. EduCare's bestselling online learning service consists of over 20 high quality courses that are written and endorsed by recognised experts. Safer Recruitment for International Schools ...

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About Us | EduCare

About us EduCare is the UK’s leading provider of essential duty of care and safeguarding training. Our primary focus is on ‘duty of care’, helping to keep children, young people and adults safe from harm. With over 2,000 EduCare courses completed every day, we are the market leader in developing and delivering highly engaging online learning courses in partnership with leading experts. Our complete ...

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Accessibility

Accessibility This page will explain how you can make the website easier to read by using features on the EduCare website and features that are built into your web browser and computer. Text size Use your browser's zoom to control the size at which you see everything on the screen. In addition, you can change your browser's settings and most operating systems allow you to ...

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AISA

Exclusive 10% discount for AISA Schools on our online learning service EduCare and Association of International Schools in Africa (AISA) work together to offer high-quality, effective online Safeguarding and Duty of Care training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to International Schools. EduCare's bestselling online learning service consists of over 20 high quality courses that are written and endorsed by recognised experts. Safer Recruitment for ...

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All courses

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Are you inspection ready?

Are you inspection ready? Training is key to delivering care that meets the standards set out by the CQC. Request a quote In a recent article ‘Top tips on preparing for a Care Quality Commission inspection’, a CQC deputy chief inspector of adult social care advised of being “inspection-ready” at all times and commented: “If was a manager in a care home, I’d be ...

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Ask the experts

Free webinar series: Ask the experts To support schools during the Coronavirus pandemic, we ran a series of free webinars addressing the issues affecting schools during lockdown and then the return to school. All recordings from the series are now available to download for free.Our expert partners gave a presentation about the key issues and took questions and shared the good practice schools follow ...

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Bespoke Courses

Bespoke e-Learning courses Your training the way you want it Creating a fully-fledged training course can be a difficult, expensive,and a time-consuming task. Thankfully, we provide a bespoke e-learning course creation service to help you train your staff quickly, easily and cost effectively. We work with hundreds of clients, creating a range of bespoke e-learning courses to help them streamline their individual staff training ...

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Careers

Careers at EduCare Want to work in a dynamic small business, where what you do makes a difference and helps children, young people and adults stay safe from harm? EduCare is the market leader in creating and delivering high-quality and engaging online safeguarding and duty of care training courses. Our purpose is to empower our customers to act and support people in their care. ...

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Circles of Excellence

We are very proud of the quality of our courses and work with a wide range of subject experts who play a key role in contributing to, reviewing and endorsing our training. This ensures our courses are always accurate, up-to-date and of the highest quality. We also work with a number of key membership organisations who offer discounts to their members.

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