More information about this course:

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The course will explain what to do before referring a case to Children’s Social Care, and what to do after a referral. It also will take you through the principles and requirements of the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need – who is it for, what are Domains and Dimensions, and explaining Section 47 Enquiries.

 

On completion of the course, you will automatically get a certificate, containing your name, CPD hours, the date and learning objectives.

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Audience

This Safeguarding Children Level 2 course is intended for staff who fall into the following work groups:

 

Group 3: Members of the workforce who work predominantly with children, young people and/or their parents/carers and who could potentially contribute to assessing, planning, intervening and reviewing the needs of a child and parenting capacity where there are safeguarding concerns.

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Group 4: Members of the workforce who are responsible for making safeguarding referrals to the Police and Children’s Social Care

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Group 5: Members of the workforce who have particular responsibilities in relation to undertaking section 47 enquiries, including professionals police and children’s social care; those who work with complex cases and social work staff responsible for co-ordinating assessments of children in need.

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Objectives

 

Once you’ve completed this course, you’ll have a knowledge of:

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• Types of questions that can be asked, should be asked, and should be avoided

• Considerations before referring a safeguarding concern to Children’s Social Care

• Information you should provide to Children’s Social Care and the questions you should ask

• What you and Children’s Social Care should do following a referral

• The Framework for the Assessment of Children and their families and its principles

• Assessing children’s needs

• Understand the ‘Domains’ and ‘Dimensions’ of the Framework

• Importance of keeping an up to date chronology and how to record one

• Purpose and possible outcomes of a Strategy Discussion and Section 47 Enquiries

• Initial Child Protection Conferences

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5 reviews for Safeguarding Children (Level 2)

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• This course was excellent and handy to do in work time. It gave me all the information needed and was brilliant that you could print the refresher guides.

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• I was shocked by the high percentage of abuse victims and this is only what gets reported. I feel more knowledgeable having done this course and now feel confident about reports and disclosures should the need arise.

• I feel much more confident now in terms of the procedures for recognising/dealing with and reporting child abuse. The course was really informative and very interesting.

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• I definitely feel much more confident in dealing with safeguarding and child protection. Thank you. The course was excellent for filling all the gaps and confusion I had in regards to safe-guarding and child protection.

 

• I found this course tremendously useful and interesting. It is highly informative on a situation which can be very devastating but clearly goes through the actions of what should be done.