Early Years Child Protection Basic Awareness

Learning outcomes

• To understand what is meant by safeguarding and child protection, including the categories of abuse.
• To be aware of key legislation, national policies and guidance in relation to safeguarding.
• To be able to identify and respond to abuse, harm and neglect at the earliest opportunity, including the factors, situations and actions that could lead to or contribute to abuse occurring.
• To be aware of the roles and responsibilities of practitioners and other relevant professionals involved in safeguarding.
• To understand how to record and effectively refer concerns or allegations related to safeguarding in a timely and appropriate way, in line with local Kent procedures
• To explore safe and professional practice expectations to enable practitioners to work in ways that safeguard children from abuse, harm and neglect
  

The course is delivered by experienced trainers from the LADO Education Safeguarding Advisory Service (LESAS) and who have a sound knowledge of social work and early years, and uses a variety of interactive scenarios and discussions to help delegates put learning into practice.

This training provides an introduction to safeguarding and child protection for staff working in early years provision and would also be appropriate as a refresher session for practitioners who require updated training at least every two years.  This training cannot explore individual settings policies and procedures with delegates; providers will need to provide additional training internally to ensure staff are familiar with their own specific procedures and expectations.  Staff working outside of Kent can access this course, however, will need to undertake independent research to understand their own local guidance and processes.

This session will run as an interactive virtual session on Microsoft Teams; delegates will need access to Microsoft teams and a working camera/microphone.  Training is not recorded, and full attendance and participation is required to receive a certificate of attendance; non-participation, missing content, or late arrival/leaving early may mean certificates are withheld.

What delegates say about our training:

In 2024-25, over 95% of delegates rated the LADO Education Safeguarding Advisory Service as being extremely/very satisfied with training quality and delivery, and 98% felt the training met its learning outcomes.

“I was very happy with the session. Covered everything a practitioner should know within their setting”

“The content of this session will impact my practice as I have learnt more in safeguarding and now have a far better understanding in it. “