Learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews FREE Elearning Course

This course will equip all those who come into contact with children with the knowledge and understanding they need to respond to neglect, abuse and extra-familiar harm to help prevent future serious child safeguarding incidents.

About the Learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews course

This free course looks to raise awareness about critical learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and potentially help save lives by equipping those who come into contact with children, with the knowledge and understanding they need. Learners will be able to identify and refer concerns, assess and intervene and work effectively within the multidisciplinary safeguarding system.

The course takes a child centred approach by drawing on the real lived experiences of children who have experienced neglect, abuse and extra-familiar harm, and is informed by the findings published in the past two years. The course also explains the statutory process for managing serious child safeguarding incidents under Working Together 2023.

This course will help you to understand

• The most common risk factors relating to neglect, abuse and extra-familial harm that feature in serious child safeguarding incidents.
• How you have a role to promote the welfare and safeguarding of children within the context of multi-agency working.
• The 10 key principles of learning from child safeguarding practice reviews are critical to keeping children safe, and how they apply to your role.
• Why children's rights to have their wishes and feelings listened to in decision making that affect their lives matters.
• The importance of knowing and understanding the legal and policy frameworks, to fulfil statutory responsibilities.
• How the management of child safeguarding incidents process works, from the point of an incident notification to undertaking a Child Safeguarding Practice Review (local and national)

This course will take up to 1 hour to complete and comes with a downloadable certificate.

Free. Online. Takes under an hour.

• 100% free — no payment details required
• Complete at your own pace, on any device
• Certificate of completion included
• No prior knowledge or experience needed