Safeguarding and Child Protection Training

Safeguarding & Child Protection

Safeguarding and Child Protection Training, ranging from Introductory and Refresher courses to Specialist Courses.

We offer safeguarding and child protection training at all levels across all sectors and organisations in the children’s and vulnerable adult’s workforces. If you support children and families, we can meet your child protection training needs with flexible delivery formats, including:

Facilitated In-Person Training
Facilitated Exclusive Online Classes via our Virtual Classroom
Highly Rated eLearning

We offer flexible scheduling for facilitated learning, including early evenings and weekends. We can tailor case studies to specific child safety needs and reinforce key organisational safeguarding policies and procedures.

Alternatively, our highly rated Safeguarding and Child Protection for Aotearoa eLearning is a multi-agency resource designed to support the children’s workforce with safeguarding and child protection learning and offers discounts for multiple learner registrations. We also have a refresher course available for those needing to review/update their learning.

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Our engaging, informative training equips learners with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to safeguarding and child protection concerns, including how these relate to child well-being and possible allegations against staff. A key focus is the child’s voice, ensuring learners understand the importance of safeguarding and preventing vulnerabilities from escalating, as well as the main Rs of Child Protection if staff are worried about abuse or neglect.

Whether you support children and families directly or indirectly, we can help you meet your child protection training needs. Our tailored, flexible solutions ensure your team is confident and equipped to safeguard those in your care or with whom you come into contact.

Recognising Concerns

The Different types of harm, categories, and indicators of abuse and neglect.

Responding to Concerns

How to safely respond to different types of disclosures.

Reporting Concerns

Best practices for reporting concerns within the organisation.

Referring
Concerns

Best practice in referring concerns externally, including to Oranga Tamariki or the Police.

Recording Concerns

Best practices for documenting concerns and evidencing safeguarding actions.

By the end of this class, learners will be able to:

Define safeguarding and child protection.
Explain the spectrum of vulnerability and recall those tamariki/rangatahi who may be more likely to experience heightened vulnerability risks.
Name the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACES) on a child’s immediate and long-term development, hauora/health and well-being.
Identify the different types of harm, categories and possible indicators of abuse.
Recognise the different types of disclosures and demonstrate safe responses.

Apply best practices when reporting, referring and recording safeguarding and child protection concerns.
Role model being in a position of trust and demonstrate safeguarding as a shared responsibility.

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