Overview

This Foundation level course raises awareness of Infection Control and provides awareness of types of infection, routes of transmission and measures to limit the spread of infection in children’s care. The programme benefits from an animated scenes and activities with ongoing assessment making it engaging and interactive.

Aims & Objectives:

• Provide background information on infection control and the importance of public health.
• Discuss legislation and policy relating to infection control.
• Highlight the importance of risk assessment and management in infection control.
• Includes the chain of infection and how to break it.
• Enable learners to describe the types of infections, disease, routes of transmission and the principles of infection.
• Includes infection control measures related directly to children and vulnerable people and the responsibilities of staff and managers.

Audience:

This is a cross sector course and will benefit all professional’s, frontline workers and leaders working with children and young people.