Child Protection

Modern society appears to recognise the importance of child protection. It has taken a while, but in the UK, ensuring that anyone who works with children is trustworthy is taken seriously.

Sadly, it took the death of two little girls in Soham, to come up with robust laws to ensure that everyone who worked around children was safe to do so. The results of the enquiry that followed those murders resulted in an act of parliament called The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, which required all people working with or around children to undergo full police checks. This act had the knock on effect of once again making providers of childcare services review their standards.

Many providers reviewed the training that their staff underwent and decided to beef up the training their staff received. They did so, in most cases, to improve their staff’s ability to spot the early signs of abuse, so that vulnerable children could get the help they needed sooner rather than later. However, demand for other kinds of child protection training also took off.

Types of Child Protection Training

Child protection courses break down into several groups. Some courses are designed to help childcare workers, such as social workers, teachers, nurses and nursery workers to protect children from physical harm. Courses like, child accident prevention, E-safety and health and safety related courses full into this category.

Other courses focus on protecting children from mental, physical and sexual abuse or from neglect. These courses look at how to spot the signs of these kinds of abuse, what to do when you spot those signs and how to help children subjected to this kinds of abuse. An example of this kind of course is awareness of child abuse and neglect.

The last category of child protection training helps people who work with children to deal with behavioural problems. Dealing with behavioural problems in the right way is important. By dealing with things in the right way, you can help children to learn how to behave properly and negate the long-term negative effect poor behaviour could have on that child’s future.

Safeguarding Children EA provides a huge range of child protection courses. They offer courses for all sectors.