Safeguarding Children Courses, Training & Qualifications

Safeguarding is a term to denote measures to protect individuals' health, wellbeing, and human rights, allowing people, especially children, young people, and vulnerable adults, to live free from abuse, harm, and neglect. 

Child protection and safeguarding protect children from abuse and identify and stop the abuse that might already be happening.

Child protection and safeguarding mean protecting children from abuse and identifying and stopping abuse that is already happening. 

Safeguarding keeps a child safe by:

• Protecting children from abuse and any type of harm
• Preventing harm to children's health or development
• Ensuring children grow up and develop with the provision of safe and effective care
• Taking action to enable all children and young people to have the best outcomes.

Everyone is responsible for safeguarding children and young people. They must know how to report concerns about physical, emotional or sexual abuse, neglect, trafficking, or exploitation to quickly and appropriately address those concerns.

A serious consequence of failed safeguarding policies and procedures is children will be at risk of harm. 

Schools play an essential role in protecting children from abuse. Your school can safeguard children by creating safe environments for children and young people through robust safeguarding practices. To ensure that adults who work in the school, including volunteers, do not pose a risk to children.

A safeguarding or child protection policy statement clarifies what an organisation or group will do to keep children safe. Organisations must place more detailed policies and procedures to safeguard children and effectively respond to child protection concerns.

Safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures are an essential part of protecting children and young people. These policies and procedures must be supported by good governance, health and safety, financial management, staff supervision and management.

No matter what position they have, all school staff must complete Safeguarding Training. However, additional staff have different levels of training appropriate to them.

A risk assessment is a careful examination to establish whether there are any practices or situations that could cause harm to children. This is to assess whether enough precautions are taken or should do more to prevent harm.

A designated safeguarding officer or lead is the person who has responsibility for ensuring a company's safeguarding policy adherence. Safeguarding children is everyone's responsibility, regardless of whether you have a designated safeguarding officer or not.

The Mandatory Training Group is the leading UK provider of accredited statutory and mandatory training courses for all sectors, including health, safety and well-being, social care, education, local government, and many more.

Yes, all our online safeguarding children courses, training and qualifications are externally peer-reviewed and accredited by the CPD Certification Service (CPDUK).

 Some sector-specific courses and programmes are also accredited by relevant organisations, including RoSPA, IATP, IFE, IIRSM, Gatehouse Awards and Training Qualifications UK (TQUK). Please check the course overview section for details about the accrediting or awarding body.

On completion of each online safeguarding children e-learning courses and training, you have to take the end of course assessment and achieve a pass mark of 80% to be able to download a CPD certificate in PDF form, unless otherwise specified in the overview section of the course.