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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Safeguarding Young People for International Schools

The purpose of the course is to raise your awareness of young people who may be vulnerable because of their age, relative inexperience, past abusive experiences or current circumstances

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Understanding the Role of the Safeguarding Lead (Written in partnership with Ann Marie Christian)

Everyone working or volunteering in a school should be aware of the importance of the role of the safeguarding lead. Written in partnership with Ann Marie Christian, Safeguarding Expert, this course will help you understand the position in more detail and how it relates to your own role.

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Staying Safe Online for International Schools

The purpose of this course is to help you understand how technology is changing, the nature of children and young people’s online world, and the risk and protective factors when going online. The course has a wide range of practical advice on what can be done by you as an individual and by any organisation you work for. This includes good practice guidelines, where you can go for help and support, and an extensive range of easy to access online resources. The course was written in partnership with Childnet International, a non-profit organisation working with others to help make the internet a great and safe place for children.

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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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Reasonable force - when may it be used?

All school staff hope that they won’t have to use reasonable force, but as they have a duty of care towards their pupils, some situations may leave them with little choice. It is important to understand the circumstances when reasonable force may be used, and when it is not acceptable.

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How to Ensure Your Dental Practice Passes Fundamental Care Standards

Making sure your dental practice passes the fundamental standards set by the Care Quality Commission is crucial for ensuring quality and duty of care in the workplace. It’s no easy feat, though, so how can you make sure your staff maintains the correct standards?

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Essentials for Starting a Career in Health and Social Care

There are many things to consider when starting a job in Health and Social Care. EduCare shares the essentials you need for getting started.

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The Serious Side of Comic Relief

As schools gear up for fun and fundraising for Comic Relief on Friday 24th March, we look at how safeguarding is a vital part of Comic Relief’s work.

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Meet the Team: Customer Services

Our customer services team are our front line to our customers. Their brief is to ensure customers get the most from our service and take the worry about compliance and safeguarding training away.

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Safeguarding alerts in homecare services

BBC radio's "File on 4" course today (28 February 2016) provides figures about allegations of abuse by homecare workers, obtained under Freedom of Information legislation from around half of the UK's local councils (including the health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland).

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Government Plans for Health and Social Care: What Can We Expect in 2017?

Health and Social Care in the UK is facing major problems with government cuts and the unknown future of Brexit. From child protection training to safeguarding adults, what will happen to Health and Social Care in 2017?

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Innovations in Health and Care

A collection of recent news articles highlighting innovations that are making a positive impact in the health and care sector.

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Safeguarding Good Practice Guidelines

These good practice guidelines are useful for new organisations and for those whose safeguarding policies need to be refreshed or updated

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Why Should Your Organisation Adopt Person-Centred Care?

Person-centred care ensures that a patient’s rights and needs always come first. Adopting safeguarding training in your workplace will ensure you provide the best quality of care possible.

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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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Educare For Education with IAPS | EduCare

EduCare for Education In Partnership with IAPS EduCare works with over 20,000 education settings, both in the UK and internationally, providing high-quality e-learning courseswritten and endorsed by experts. EduCare for Education®is our all-inclusive training course package that will meetallof your duty of care and compliance training needs. Sold as an annual licence which starts at just £390 per year, EduCare for Education®allows unlimited access ...

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EduCare for Health - Dental

Let EduCare provide the reassurance you need Request a Free Trial Request a Quote Request an Online Demo EduCare for Health: Dental is our training package specifically for dental practices and is made up of 13 Safeguarding and Duty of Care training courses includingInfection Control for Dental Practices­,Safeguarding Children and Child Neglect. Evidencing safeguarding training is important for CQC inspections which is why EduCare ...

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EduCare for Health and Social Care

Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care EduCare for Health: Health & Social Care Care Providers and Healthcare organisations have duties to protect those who are in their care. The CQC regularly inspect providers to ensure they meet the fundamental standards of care and ask 5 key questions - are you safe,caring, effective, responsive and well-led? Training plays a key part in helping ...

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Education

EduCare for education settings EduCare is the UK’s leading provider of essential Safeguarding and Duty of Care training. Our bestselling e-learning service and has been designed specifically for the education sector. The service combines a broad range of online courses with a robust reporting suite that can evidence learning to inspectors. Each course is designed to impart essential information and give advice on how ...

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Frequently Asked Questions The Frequently Asked Questions below offer solutions and practical advice for some of our most common queries. If you are still unable to find a solution, please feel free to get in touch with ourCustomer Services Team between 8.30 and 17.00 Monday to Friday. We will endeavour to respond within 24 hours. Course content Where can I find more detail ...

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FOBISIA

Exclusive 10% discount for FOBISIA Member Schools on our online learning service EduCare and The Federation of British International Schools in Asia (FOBISIA) work together to offer high-quality, effective online Safeguarding and Duty of Care training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to British International Schools in Asia. EduCare's bestselling online learning service consists of over 30 high-quality courses that are written and endorsed by ...

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Get better VfM from your CPD budget

Get better VfM from your CPD budget Request a Quote Our bestselling safeguarding service covers many essential topics such as Child Protection, Prevent Duty and Equality & Diversity, you may be able to utilise several different ‘pots’ to pay for it. We work with thousandsof schools to get the best VfM for their budgets, we could help you too. Complete the form opposite to ...

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Health and Social Care Training Courses | EduCare

Health & Social Care Training Courses EduCare for Health EduCare is the UK's leading provider of essential Safeguarding and Duty of Care training. EduCare for Health & Social Careis our e-learning service that has been designed for those who work in the Health & Social Care sector or in Dental institutions and combines a variety of courses with a robust reporting suite that can ...

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Independent Schools

Assess thecontentand interactivityof our e-learning with a free trial EduCare for Education is a simple, concise and easy-to-use online learning service. Self-manage your learners with detailed reporting functions, and demonstrate best practice through downloadable personalised certificates to evidence learning to inspecting bodies. Assess the content and interactivity of our online learning with a no obligation free trial today. Just complete the form on this ...

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