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Child Safeguarding Awareness eLearning
Online child safeguarding awareness training for anyone whose work brings them into contact with children, recognising concerns, and reporting them the same day rather than waiting to be sure.
Who it is for
Who this child safeguarding awareness course is for
Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, and the most common failure is not malice but hesitation, waiting for certainty before telling someone. This course is written to remove that hesitation.
- Staff and volunteers working with children
- Sports coaches, youth workers and activity leaders
- Transport, catering and facilities staff in schools
- Contractors working on school and childcare premises
- Trustees and committee members of youth organisations
- Anyone needing awareness-level safeguarding for a role
Course content
What the child safeguarding awareness course covers
Five short lessons covering what safeguarding means, types of abuse, recognising concerns and responding to a disclosure, recording and reporting, and safer working practice, then a 12-question assessment.
What safeguarding means
What safeguarding and child protection mean, the law behind them, and why safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.
Types of abuse
Physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect, exploitation, online harm and child-on-child abuse, and their possible indicators.
Responding to a disclosure
What to do and what not to do when a child tells you something worrying.
Recording and reporting
Recording concerns factually, reporting to the designated safeguarding lead, escalating if needed, and information sharing.
Safer working practice
Boundaries, one-to-one situations, online contact, and what to do about concerns about another adult.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Explain what safeguarding means and why it is everyone's responsibility
- Recognise the main categories of abuse and their possible indicators
- Respond appropriately if a child discloses something to you
- Record a concern factually and report it to the designated safeguarding lead the same day
- Apply safer working practices to your own role
Your legal duty
The law behind child safeguarding awareness training
The Children Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004 provide the statutory framework for child welfare and for co-operation between agencies to safeguard and promote children's welfare. Organisations working with children build their safeguarding policies on that framework.
Sector guidance sits on top of the legislation and is often what an inspector actually checks: for schools in England, statutory safeguarding guidance is updated regularly, so your designated safeguarding lead should be the reference point for the current version rather than any training course.
- Children Act 1989
- Children Act 2004 - co-operation to safeguard and promote welfare
- Sector-specific statutory guidance applies on top, and is updated regularly
- Your designated safeguarding lead holds the current local procedure
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
Your own designated lead, reporting form and local procedure can be built into the course.
For employers
Child Safeguarding Awareness training for a team
Safeguarding awareness is usually needed for everyone on site, including staff whose role is not child-facing but who are present around children.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Child Safeguarding Awareness eLearning: common questions
Requirements vary by sector and role, and are set by statutory guidance as much as by the Acts themselves. Awareness-level training is the standard baseline for anyone in contact with children.
No. This is awareness level. A designated safeguarding lead needs specific, higher-level training for that role.
Report it anyway. The course is explicit that certainty is not the threshold, and that it is not your job to investigate or decide.
No, and the course covers how to handle that moment. You cannot keep a safeguarding disclosure to yourself, and saying so honestly at the start is safer for the child.
About 30 to 45 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued as soon as you pass the end assessment.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.
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