Gangs and Youth Violence
Develop your knowledge of gangs and youth violence with this comprehensive e-learning course. Understand what gangs are and what they do, the extent of the problem, the part women and girls play ...
Safeguarding Awareness
Abuse can take place in any setting and it often goes unnoticed and unreported. Even if you don’t work directly with children or vulnerable adults, you might still be in a position where you can...
Safeguarding Against Radicalisation – The Prevent Duty Training
Extremism. Radicalisation. Terrorism. How much do you know about how and why they occur, what their effects are and what your responsibilities are? ‘Prevent’ radicalisation work depends on...
Common Assessment Framework (CAF / Early Help) Covering CAF Assessment
The Common Assessment Framework (CAF or Early Help) is a standardised, shared assessment and planning framework used to help early identification of a child or young person's additional...
Gypsy and Traveller Cultural Awareness
This digital learning package is a comprehensive cultural awareness course on Gypsies and Travellers in the UK. Informative and interactive, it is comprised of four modules covering Gypsy and...
Child Sexual Exploitation – Level 2
If your role means you have a statutory duty to safeguard children, and already know the basics of CSE, this course is a must. Building on Child Sexual Exploitation (Level 1), this course gives...
Children’s Workforce Induction
The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) was set up to promote the training needs of everyone whose work is mainly with children, young people and families. When it closed in 2012, its...
Reablement
Losing daily life skills due to ill health can be extremely distressing for an individual. Reablement is a free service that helps people learn or re-learn these crucial skills. This short...
Understanding Behaviour of Children and Young People
This course explores various types of challenging behaviour seen across different age ranges - from early years children through to adolescents. You will learn the typical root causes of...
NHS Continuing Healthcare
NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) is the care package arranged by the NHS for people who aren’t in hospital and who have been determined to have a primary health need. Eligible people can receive...
Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery
Modern day slavery takes many forms, whether labour and criminal exploitation or sexual; and can be a bewildering and complex subject to get to grips with. This comprehensive online human...
Keeping Good Records
Keeping good records is an essential part of a structured and safe approach to working with vulnerable adults, children, young people and their families. Good records management not only...
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Training Course
Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been a criminal offence in the UK since 1985. But there’s a growing issue around British children being taken abroad by UK nationals for FGM, something which was ...
Autism Training and Awareness Course
Autism is much more common than many people think. There are around 700,000 people on the autistic spectrum in the UK, more than 1 in 100. This means that, including families, autism affects 2.8m...
Child Sexual Exploitation – Level 1
Childhood sexual abuse often goes reported. Government figures suggest that only 1 in 10 (10%) of all survivors of childhood sexual assault (including attempts) told someone in an official position ...
Bullying and Cyberbullying
Upon successful completion of this course you will be automatically awarded a certificate containing the course name, completion date, CPD hours and learning objectives. The course contains...
Abuse Related to Beliefs in Witchcraft
An individual’s belief in witchcraft presents issues that many of us may struggle to comprehend. Some of these beliefs can put children and young people at real risk of exploitation from ritual...
Child Sexual Exploitation – Levels 1 and 2
Child sexual exploitation (CSE) comes in many forms, whether undertaken by individuals, gangs or groups. The perpetrators often using the internet as a medium for grooming. Working as a frontline...
Sexual Abuse and Recognising Grooming
An essential course for anyone that works – or has contact – with children, young people and their families. Can you recognise child abuse? Do you know how it can start, and what to do if you...
Emotional Abuse
Emotional abuse of children is the most common form of abuse - and the effects can be just as damaging to the victim as physical violence. However, without visible evidence such as bruising and...
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
The Deprivation of Liberty Act protects the most vulnerable individuals in hospitals and care homes. It plays an important role in preventing the unlawful deprivation of liberty occurring. The MCA...
Effective Communication with Children and Families
If you work with young people and families, you’ll know how important effective communication with children can be. Good communication builds trust and can make a real difference to how effectively ...
Dementia Training and Awareness Course
It is estimated that more than 1m people in the UK will suffer from dementia by 2025. Every three minutes someone develops dementia. These stark statistics that show how much of a challenge...
Assessment and Approval of Adopters
It can be a difficult and long winded process, adopting a child. New statutory adoption legislation in July 2013 aimed to cut waiting lists and bring families together quicker. This course...
Physical Abuse
Physical abuse can have a long-lasting and damaging effect on an individual. But children are very rarely abused by strangers. In fact, abusers are more likely to be someone who comes into close,...
Multi-Agency Working
Effective multi-agency working in health and social care depends on everyone concerned having a clear understanding of multi-agency initiatives (such as MASH and MARAC) and a good working knowledge ...
Hate Crime
Hate crime can be extremely disturbing for victims and their communities. But how prevalent is hate crime and what does the law do to protect and support victims, as well as deal with perpetrators? ...
Assessment and Approval of Foster Carers Course
Do you work with children in need and their families? Do you need to sharpen up your awareness of the different stages of the foster care process? If you’re involved at any stage (and in any...
Understanding Child Development
The aim of this course is to give learners an awareness of child development and the opportunity to begin to think about how an understanding of how children and young people develop impacts on...
Lead Professional
Lead Professionals play a key role for children and their families, as the single point of contact for coordinating provision of a range of services. Learn about the role of a lead professional...
Framework for the Assessment of Children and their Families
If you work with children, young people and their families you need to be aware of the Assessment Framework and what it means for you and the people in your care. The Framework is there to help you ...
Private Fostering
Did you know that a child can be privately fostered by someone who is not a close relative, for a period of 28 days or longer? Learn about the process and legislation for private fostering, and...
Neglect
Neglect is the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs such that it is likely to result in the serious impairment of health or development. It’s also the most ...
Falls and Fracture Prevention in the Elderly
Up to one in three (3.4m) people over 65 fall each year in the UK, costing the NHS £4.6m a day, according to Age UK. A fall can exacerbate other illnesses and start a chain of events from which an...
Supporting Winter Warmth
Serious health problems – such as chest infections, heart attacks and strokes – are more common in the colder months. According to Age UK, each winter one person dies every seven minutes from...