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Knife crime affects entire communities, creating ripples of fear and trauma that impact us all. By understanding the signs, causes and knowing how to take effective action, we can work together to create lasting change.
This course serves as an introduction to the critical issue of child abuse, specifically in relation to harmful cultural practices, faiths, or belief systems.
It can be a difficult and long winded process, adopting a child.
New statutory adoption legislation in July 2013 aimed to cut waiting lists and bring families together quicker.
This course details what’s changed and widens your knowledge of the adoption approval process.
Do you work with children in need and their families? Do you need to sharpen up your awareness of the different stages of the foster care process? If you’re involved at any stage (and in any capacity) of the assessment of children or the approval process for foster carers or just need to brush up on your Children Act guidance or knowledge, then this is the ideal course for you.
Autism is much more common than many people think. There are around 700,000 people on the autistic spectrum in the UK, more than 1 in 100. This means that, including families, autism affects 2.8m people.
But, despite the high number of individuals that are likely to have the condition, many of us have a poor understanding of autism and what it actually means for both the individual and those who work and live with them.
Upon successful completion of this course you will be automatically awarded a certificate containing the course name, completion date, CPD hours and learning objectives.
The course contains additional resource materials, useful links and a refresher guide.
Childhood sexual abuse often goes reported. Government figures suggest that only 1 in 10 (10%) of all survivors of childhood sexual assault (including attempts) told someone in an official position about the abuse at the time and only 7% report it to the police.
Child sexual exploitation can take many forms, whether it comes from individuals, gangs or groups, many of whom often use the internet as a medium for grooming. Are you aware of who is most at risk and do you know what can be done to help those in danger of being exploited?
If your role means you have a statutory duty to safeguard children, and already know the basics of CSE, this course is a must.
Building on Child Sexual Exploitation – level 1, this course gives you the knowledge to complete CSE assessments and effectively intervene, should you have to.
Child sexual exploitation (CSE) comes in many forms, whether undertaken by individuals, gangs or groups. The perpetrators often using the internet as a medium for grooming. Working as a frontline employee can mean facing many difficult situations and making some tough decisions.
This e-learning safeguarding course bundle is perfect for anyone working with children who needs to access child protection training online or who wants to brush up on their safeguarding e-learning skills.
The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) was set up to promote the training needs of everyone whose work is mainly with children, young people and families. When it closed in 2012, its work transferred to the Teaching Agency, Children’s Improvement Board and the Department for Education.
This comprehensive induction bundle straddles the work of all these agencies and sets out the first things you need to know when working in child’s or young person’s development.
The Common Assessment Framework (CAF or Early Help) is a standardised, shared assessment and planning framework used to help early identification of a child or young person’s additional needs.
It’s also used to promote co-ordinated service provision to meet these needs and is a key element of the Every Child Matters: Change for Children Programme.
This course consists of one module, in which you will learn about how to manage conflict successfully in your place of work. Learn about how to deal with these difficult scenarios, today.
Criminal exploitation is a huge issue that involves people all over the world. It’s a very real problem, and is extremely difficult and dangerous for victims of exploitation to get help. We all play a role in our community to look out for exploitation, and understanding criminal exploitation, including county lines, is crucial. This course will help you to become more aware of criminal exploitation and its different forms, and to understand what signs to look out for and how to respond.
Develop your knowledge of cultural issues within safeguarding with this comprehensive e-learning bundle.
Understand the safeguarding issues around ‘honour-based’ violence, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, and abuse related to beliefs in witchcraft and access important advice and guidance for professionals.
More than 3m people in the UK have been diagnosed with diabetes. Of these about 270,000 have type 2 diabetes and around 300,000 have type 1 diabetes. Just as importantly, approximately 850,000 people in the UK have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes.
Our diabetes online course will equip you with a greater understanding of the challenges around the condition and how it can be effectively managed.
If you work with young people and families, you’ll know how important effective communication with children can be. Good communication builds trust and can make a real difference to how effectively services are delivered and their long-term success.
This course will help you sharpen your skills and deepen your knowledge around effective communication with children and families.
Emotional abuse of children is the most common form of abuse – and the effects can be just as damaging to the victim as physical violence. However, without visible evidence such as bruising and injury; or disclosure from the child or parent, it can be particularly difficult to identify the signs.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been a criminal offence in the UK since 1985. But there’s a growing issue around British children being taken abroad by UK nationals for FGM, something which was additionally outlawed in 2003. The NSPCC estimates there are around 137,000 women and girls affected by FGM in England and Wales.
This course covers everything relating to FGM over four informative modules.
Use of the assessment framework provides evidence to help, guide and inform judgements about children’s welfare and safety from the first point of contact, through the processes of assessment, planning and review.
Gangs are intertwined with youth violence and criminality. It is essential we recognise the extent of the problem and understand how to safeguard our at-risk youth.
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