Child Protection Level 3 Training for Schools
A brief look at EduCare’s Child Protection Level 3 course. Designed to provide a thorough understanding of child protection by covering a breadth of topics relevant to anybody with a responsibility for safeguarding children and young people.
Child protection training for staff in any educational setting is a continual process. Ensuring that your staff have up-to-date skills that enable them to appropriately and constructively respond to issues such as neglect, abuse and bullying among students requires the continuous refreshing of knowledge and techniques.
The positive effects of child protection training for schools are far reaching. In addition to providing essential, potentially life-saving skills and information for staff, it helps cultivate a culture of trust between students and faculty, as well as proving to parents and school boards that the school is taking as many measures as possible to ensure the wellbeing of its students.
Training for Schools
The Child Protection Level 3 course gives a thorough overview of child protection by covering topics relevant to anybody who must safeguard children and young people as an integral part of their role. The course is broken down into 9 bitesize, accessible modules that will allow your team to develop and build upon their child protection skills. This course is intended as a follow on from our range of foundation level 2 child protection courses allowing staff to build and expand upon their knowledge and skills.
The course begins with an overview of what a child needs in order to be able to develop healthily, the different stages of child development, and the potential influences which can negatively affect a child’s development. It then looks into the role of parenting, outlining the core elements of the role of a parent in child development, as well as the factors that have the potential to negatively impact a parent or carer’s capacity to parent effectively.
The training then moves on to explore the different forms that child abuse can take, carefully going over their definitions and how to recognise them. Once participants have a strong base in this field, the course investigates how abuse should be responded to and reported. This area of the training includes a section that involves reviewing cases where there was a lapse of duty and best practice in child protection. Learning from failure is an incredibly important part of child protection training, as it evidences the incidences when child protection failed. Looking at these incidences and learning from them is invaluable for anyone who works with children or young adults.
These case studies also reinforce the importance of ensuring that best practice in safeguarding is implemented at every point of the process. The cases that are reviewed in this section of the training include Jeremy Forrest, Daniel Pelka, and Peter Connelly. The training focuses on the specific lessons that can be learned from each of the three cases, adding an additional level of understanding of why it is so important to share information and work together to protect children.
Finally, the training concludes with refreshing and expanding on the participants’ understanding of the legal framework surrounding child protection, including key legislation. Due to the interactive, interdisciplinary nature of the training, this final section will also have a focus on how working together across different professional sectors can best aid protecting children and young people.
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