Creating safer organisations

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A training course for people who have a strategic role for safeguarding children and young people across their organisation.

Who is this course for?

This one-day course has been designed for people working within voluntary, charitable, community and commercial organisations that provide services or activities for children and young people and/or their families. Participants should be those who have a strategic responsibility for safeguarding children and young people; those who are responsible for the development, review or oversight of safeguarding children and young people in their organisation.

It is assumed that applicants for this course will have already received at least basic awareness training in child protection .

Course aim

To enable those who have a lead or strategic role for safeguarding to identify and create a safer organisational culture in order to effectively protect children and young people.

Course objectives

This course is designed to enable participants to:

identify the factors that can create vulnerabilities for children and for organisations
understand how their organisation can develop a standards-based approach to safeguarding. This will include developing child protection policies and procedures, safer recruitment and vetting, a code of practice for behaviour, equality and inclusion, and monitoring and evaluation
build confidence in using the standards for the purposes of self-assessment and action planning
identify relevant tools and resources to support the development of a safer organisation.

Venue, dates and costs:

Dates:

21 September 2010: Leicester
NSPCC National Training Centre, 3 Gilmour Close, Beaumont Leys, Leicester LE4 1EZ
18 January 2011: Leicester
NSPCC National Training Centre, 3 Gilmour Close, Beaumont Leys, Leicester LE4 1EZ

Costs: £175 per day (non-residential) or £225 per day (residential). We can also arrange accommodation for the night before a course if the National Training Centre has availability. Please contact us for details.