Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

This course is designed to give staff in educational settings, who have volunteered to be named medication administrators, an overview of the key aspects of practice.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can have an incredibly damaging long-term impact on children’s future prospects and mental and physical health. Traumatic events can create high levels of toxic stress, which, if prolonged and persistent, can impact brain development and functioning.

One of the significant changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education in 2022 was that DSLs should be aware of the requirement for children to have an ‘Appropriate Adult’ when necessary. The role of the ‘Appropriate Adult’ is to safeguard the interests, rights, entitlements and welfare of children and vulnerable people suspected of a criminal offence. The course provides an understanding of the expectations and principles of this role, the steps to take when involving the police in pupil searches together with information on less invasive searches, strip searches and intimate searches.

This training course is essential to ensure admin staff in school and academy settings not only understand the principles of Child Protection, but are equipped to transfer this knowledge into practice.

This training course is essential to ensure ancillary staff such as lunchtime supervisors and canteen staff not only understand the principles of Child Protection, but are equipped to transfer this knowledge into practice.

This training course is essential to ensure Nursery staff not only understand the principles of Child Protection, but are equipped to transfer this knowledge into practice.

This training course is to refresh knowledge essential to ensure admin staff in school and academy settings not only understand the principles of Child Protection, but also to transfer this knowledge into practice.

This training course is to refresh knowledge essential to ensure ancillary staff in school and academy settings not only understand the principles of Child Protection, but also to transfer this knowledge into practice.

Legislation and statutory guidance plays an important role in determining best safeguarding practice. From September 2018 all staff in schools, academies and colleges are required to meet the revised 'Keeping children safe in education 2018' (KCSIE) and 'Working together to safeguard children 2018' and further statutory revised guidance documents as a minimum practice standard. By completing this course (which examines all the key legislative requirements in detail) staff will be fully updated on the new and revised standards, reassuring governance and leadership that practice is secure. Participants will also complete a case study to test the application of learning into practice.

This training course will ensure staff understand how 'County Lines' operates, how young people become vulnerable, how to identify risk factors and how to safeguard/report concerns.

This County Lines Refresher course is designed for all staff and volunteers in schools, academies and educational settings.

This course is designed to guide and support staff undertaking the role of Designated Mental Health Lead (DMHL) in educational settings. The course provides a balance of theory and best practice for leadership, together with practical tools including case studies and video tutorials on specific mental health conditions, designed to support disseminating best practice to all staff.

Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) training is essential to ensure DSLs are equipped with the skills, knowledge and practice required. As with all elements of our safeguarding suite, the module is supported by a sound knowledge base and practice examples.

Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) training is essential to ensure DSLs are equipped with the skills, knowledge and practice required. As with all elements of our safeguarding suite, the module is supported by a sound knowledge base and practice examples.

Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) training is essential to ensure DSLs are equipped with the skills, knowledge and practice required. The DSL refresher module is designed for staff that have already completed a DSL course but require an annual refresher course.

This Domestic Abuse course is designed for all staff and volunteers in schools, academies and educational settings.

Educational visits provide valuable offsite learning enhancement to the core curriculum, enabling pupils to achieve a fuller understanding of the world around them through direct experience. Thorough planning and preparation not only ensures their success, but provides a robust framework to safeguarding all those, children and young people, teachers, staff and volunteers, who participate. This course is designed to explore the key elements needed to make educational visits safe and successful.

In an increasingly uncertain world, it is crucial to have comprehensive plans and strategies to respond effectively to threats in crowded places, such as schools and colleges. This course explores the need for well-designed emergency response plans catering to various potential threats, terrorist methodologies and serious incidents such as the use of offensive weapons, a serious cyber-attack, or a physical attack on the premises. 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace - Whilst the term equality and diversity may mean different things to different people, it is important to clearly define these terms to help inform workplace policy and set out the standards of best practice we should all adhere to. This course is designed to explore what is meant by equality, diversity and inclusion in workplace settings and help dispel any existing or unconscious biases that you may have.

This Fire Safety Awareness course is designed for all staff and volunteers in schools, academies and educational settings.

This Fire Safety Awareness course is designed for all staff in Office settings

This ‘Fire Warden' course is designed for staff in schools, academies and educational settings who are required to carry out a Fire Warden role.

This ‘Fire Warden' course is designed for staff in office settings who are required to carry out a Fire Warden role

This First Aid Basics in an Educational setting is created in line with national guidance to give all members of staff a basic knowledge of first aid to react if required. The course covers scenarios that may occur in an educational setting and highlights the most appropriate course of action in each case, giving all staff the confidence to react if required. The course uses engaging video and 3D animation to demonstrate current best practice in each scenario.

The aim of this product is to support educators in identifying and controlling the risks associated with the procurement or production of food as part of curricular activities such as food technology classes or through extracurricular activities such as cake sales, school fetes and similar events. In addition, it will assist in lesson planning for practical lessons handling uncooked products of animal origin such as biology dissections.

The Forced Marriage awareness training course is designed to ensure all professionals working within statutory agencies are aware of their responsibilities and obligations in relation to 'Forced Marriage' and have a clear understanding of how this area impacts on the Child Protection remit.

This GDPR Refresher course is designed for all staff and volunteers in schools, academies and educational settings.

GDPR changes data privacy requirements, aligning personal data protection with European standards. The aim is having international consistency around data protection laws and rights and to protecting individual’s personal data across Europe. As schools and academies generate and retain sensitive personal data, it is essential GDPR compliance requirements are met. Whilst there are similarities with the existing UK Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), this new legal framework updates requirements introduces clear laws with safeguards in place for the growing reliance on digital mediums. This course is designed to ensure governance, staff and volunteers in schools and academies have a clear understanding of GDPR requirements.

Health and safety is a key element of the safeguarding remit and forms the basis of outlining a school or academy's commitment to the protection and safety of pupils, staff and visitors. A positive health and safety culture ensures legal duties are met, enabling staff to know how to work safely without risk to their or others health. A key element of our safeguarding suite, this course is designed to ensure all staff and volunteers in schools and academies have a clear understanding of good health & safety practice and compliance with legislative and duty of care requirements. As with all elements of our safeguarding suite the course offers an accredited CPD solution to ensure provision is safe, secure and there is a culture of vigilance.

Ongoing regular Health and Safety Walks in schools and academies are an essential element to ensuring that measures already in place are effective, are being adhered to and that all risks have been, and continue to be, minimised to a satisfactory level. This course provides a practical framework for those involved in the process.

The Honour Based Violence awareness training course is designed to ensure all professionals working within statutory agencies are aware of their responsibilities and obligations when they come across potential or actual ‘honour based crime’, have a clear understanding of how HBV impacts on the Child Protection remit and how to ensure legislative and duty of care requirements are fully met.

Schools and nurseries are common sites for the transmission of infections. Being in close contact with other children: compounded with a developing understanding of hygiene practices: can exacerbate the transmission of infections. This makes educational settings a breeding ground for microorganisms which may cause infection. Therefore: it is important for staff to understand the different modes of transmission and methods to prevent spread of infections.