Safeguarding Children with Disabilities/ Additional Needs
Essential Safeguarding Training for All Organisations Working with Children.
This training is a crucial step toward ensuring that every child, regardless of their needs, is protected and heard. However, it also acknowledges that children with disabilities can experience heightened abuse risks up to 4 times more than their non-disabled peers. Hence, we’ve made disability safeguarding training a priority and are proud to be Aotearoa’s only provider of disability safeguarding training.
While this training is particularly crucial for specialist disability or additional needs support organisations, to be a truly inclusive children’s workforce that values diversity and promotes equity, representatives from every organisation engaging with children and families should complete this training.
Training is available in three flexible formats:
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Facilitated In-Person Training
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Facilitated Exclusive Online Classes via our Virtual Classroom
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Highly Rated eLearning
Contact us to discuss facilitated delivery, or register for our highly rated Safeguarding Children with Disabilities or Additional Needs eLearning today!
Focusing on children with disabilities or additional needs, this engaging and informative training equips learners with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to safeguarding and child protection concerns and how those concerns can relate to child well-being and possible allegations against staff.
A key focus is helping learners be aware of some of the specific considerations in safeguarding children with disabilities or additional needs across the main Rs of Child Protection.
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.
This training is advocated for all organisations and can be of particular interest to those in roles such as:
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Art Therapists
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Behavioural Support Specialists
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Sports Coaches and Staff
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Health and Private Carers
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Therapists
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School and Other Counsellors
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Respite Care Staff
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Social Workers
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Special Education Staff
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Specific Disability Specialists
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Psychologists
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Speech and Language Staff
By the end of this class, learners will be able to:
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Explain the differences between safeguarding and child protection.
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Identify how children and young people can experience heightened vulnerability risks of harm, abuse and neglect.
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Understand Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the impact these can have on a child's immediate and long-term development, health, and well-being.
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Identify the different categories and possible indicators of abuse.
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Recognise the different types of disclosures and know how to respond safely.
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Understand how concerns may relate to a child's well-being and allegations against staff.
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Apply best practices when reporting, referring and recording safeguarding and child protection concerns.
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Demonstrate safeguarding as a shared workforce responsibility.
How would you describe this class to others?
“Excellent.”
“Really worthwhile course for everyone to undertake whether you work directly with children or not.”
“The interactive material was engaging."
“This was a great course and really relevant to the work we do. Thanks.”