New course: Overcoming Loneliness
EduCare is delighted to announce that we have launched a new course in partnership with The Children’s Society.
Safeguarding and loneliness
Dawn Jotham, our Pastoral Care Expert, explains why we have chosen this subject area for our latest course:
“Young people who are lonely have an increased risk of being exploited, developing unhealthy relationships and being subjected to online grooming.
“Throughout our new course, learners will read about different children and young people who feel lonely to see how varied the causes of loneliness are, and the impact that it has.”
Loneliness and young people
Loneliness can affect anyone from any background at any time of their life. It is often associated with the elderly, but children and young people also become lonely and isolated, in fact, one in ten children aged 10 to 17 reported feeling lonely ‘often’.
Loneliness is a very personal emotion which affects everyone differently and is not necessarily related to being alone. It is perfectly possible to be on your own and not feel lonely, and equally possible to be surrounded by people and feel very lonely.
Loneliness isn’t new but the negative impact on health and wellbeing is increasingly being recognised, so much so that there is now a specific government strategy looking at the issue.
The Children’s Society – expert partner
This course is written in partnership with The Children’s Society, a national charity that works with the country’s most vulnerable children and young people.
The Children's Society and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) worked jointly to develop a set of questions to measure loneliness among children. The resulting briefing document explores how loneliness relates to children's subjective well-being and their material circumstances.
Overcoming loneliness online training course
The new course will help learners to:
- understand what is meant by loneliness
- spot the triggers for loneliness
- know how loneliness can affect a child
- suggest ideas for overcoming loneliness
- know where to go for further support.
The course costs £18.50 to buy online or is included in our cost-effective online learning service – EduCare for Education.
Save money with our online learning service
Overcoming Loneliness has been added to our online learning service – EduCare for Education – without increasing the cost!
There are now over 35 courses in the service, and as access is available to all courses on an unlimited basis across the whole school community, this makes EduCare for Education one of the most cost-effective ways to purchase safeguarding and duty of care training.
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