ecp training courses for professionals - child protection
TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS | EARLY YEARS

Child Protection Awareness Training

Course Outline

Statutory training meeting the requirement of the ‘robust 3-yearly training’ for whole staff communities in early years settings. Exploring Duty of Care in line with national guidance and local safeguarding children’s partnership procedures as well as the safeguarding and welfare requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage 2024.

  • Introducing child protection policy, procedures and ‘duty of care’
  • Analysing risk and the four categories of abuse
  • Ensuring a response of logging and reporting of concerns
  • Understanding whistleblowing and sharing professional concerns
  • Exploring Honour Based Abuse / Female Genital Mutilation
  • Recognising the risk of Exploitation including County Lines and Radicalisation
  • Exploring challenging topics including Domestic Abuse

For more information on course content and outcomes please watch this video.


Target Audience

Whole staff communities in early years provisions.


FAQs

What level training is this course?

Since the implementation of Safeguarding Partnerships, most sectors have moved away from using the term ‘levels’. The expectation is that you will undertake training which is relevant to the role you take in the organisation.

For example: Child Protection Awareness – would be completed by every member of a staff community that works in an early years setting.

Child Protection Awareness training would have previously been known as level 1 – basic child protection training.


What is the difference between face-to-face, live virtual, and self-paced training options?

As far as possible, our Child Protection Awareness training is as close to being the same as they can be! All the required content is covered to the highest standard, and we aim to keep as much interaction and engagement in all of our sessions as we do in our face-to-face training.

Face-to-face is our preferred method of training, but we know this is not always possible so have made our live virtual and self-paced courses available so you don’t have to miss out on being able to access our courses.


I only have a few members of staff that need to complete this training, what is the best option?

ECP can make this course available for individuals as a recorded training resource. You can find the details for this on our courses for individuals page of our website. Find out more here.

For these courses the price is per person and you can book multiple spaces for your staff.


Do I need this training for my role?

This training is a statutory requirement for all members of your staff community to complete and renew at least once every 3 years – alongside annual safeguarding update training.


Will I receive a certificate?

You will receive a PDF certificate for attending our training sessions. Child Protection Awareness Training with ECP is CPD certified for you and your setting’s single central training record. You need to ensure you are available and engaged for the full duration of the training session in order to receive your certificate.


How far in advance can I book the training?

You can book your training as far in advance as you like! Some times of the year are especially busy so we advise you book up to a year or more in advance, especially if there is a specific date and time you would like to secure. If you know your training will be up for renewal, the sooner you get the training date confirmed the more likely ECP will have availability to deliver your training.


How many people can attend the training?

Our face-to-face training numbers vary from course to course, and also take into consideration the size of the space we will be delivering the training in. The size of groups can vary.

Our virtual delivery of Child Protection Awareness has no minimum number of attendees, maximum number of attendees depends on the size of your setting.

On your booking form, you will be asked how many delegates need to access this training. From this we will be able to ensure we can meet the needs of your setting.


How do I book this training?

Our training is booked using the online booking form via the ‘BOOK NOW’ button on the Course tab of this page. Once completed, you will receive confirmation that your form has been submitted, then you will receive an email confirmation of your booking. Bookings are not confirmed until you have received this as we may have questions or the date you have requested may not be available.

If you would like to contact us to check availability or ask any further questions before completing the booking form please call us on 01727 808340 or via the chat function on the website.

All availability is managed on a first come first served basis and we cannot reserve dates, so by completing the booking form quickly you are most likely to get your preferred date.


What information will I need in order to make a booking?

To complete our booking form, we will need to know how many delegates will be accessing the training, which date you would like the training to be delivered, and invoicing details of how payment will be made.

Once the booking form is submitted, we will contact you if we have any further questions.


Reviews

It will help me massively to be more aware when it comes to detect abusive signs and how to act according to that. Very informative and well delivered training.
The Play People


It has built my confidence on how to respond and react to safeguarding concerns. Great information and delivered in a way that was easy to understand and take in.
KIDO


It showed how important our roles of Nursery Assistants are, key in safeguarding children. It is always so important to be reminded of this and my responsibility to children in my care. Very informative training session. Engaging and with the quizzes, videos, discussions and polls.
Monkey Puzzle Day Nurseries

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ECP will send you an email with the relevant links to each session to be shared with participants. Participants will then be able to register themselves for their session.

You can view our joining instructions below:

Participants will have access to their allocated session, for a set time period, where they can access the content when they wish.

All courses have specific dates and times which participants must attend. Courses that are 6 hours in duration will be delivered in 2 x 3-hour sessions.
Questions can be submitted during the self-paced webinar. All questions will then be collated and a written response created at the end of the webinar period. This will be made available to you the following week.

Live sessions have interactive elements which include voting in polls, audio interaction, raising hands and opportunities for Q & A.
Yes - The sessions are closed sessions. Participants will be informed when registering whether or not webcam and microphone access is required for their specific course. The data collated from participants is their first name, surname, role title and email address – unless additional data is requested by the client. A disclaimer is provided, and data will be deleted once shared with you.
Attendee report - including engagement data.
Q & A report from self-paced sessions - which will be sent to you the following week for you to cascade.
Feedback Report – a survey completed after the session.
Post course handouts – sent out to every attendee.