Overview

A comprehensive course combining a legislative overview with day to day responsibilities for accurate information sharing, alerting and instigating early intervention. On completion learners will have a clear understanding of their role in relation to child protection.

Learning units cover essential information including child abuse, neglect, alerting, disclosure, assessing risk and information sharing; using scenarios and case studies to illustrate the key learning points.

The course is broken down into 5 bite-sized units with the following titles:

• Basic Principles
• What to Do
• Introduction to Early Help Assessment
• Sharing Information
• Case Studies

Objectives

On completion of this course learners will be able to:

• Describe the principle types of child abuse and identify signs and symptoms
• Identify the underlying factors which increase the likelihood of abuse
• List the principle Acts providing the legal framework for child protection
• Give reasons for the difficulties in obtaining information from children
• Identify the particular vulnerability of children with additional needs
• Define 'alerting' and describe the role of the 'alerter'
• Advise a child in potential risk situations