**One Representative Per Education Setting**
Course: Designated Safeguarding Lead Refresher (Virtual)
Date: 10 February 2025 — 9.30am-1pm
Trainer: Mike Smith, Safeguarding Trainer
Location: Virtual — Zoom
Course Description:
This event is designed to offer designated safeguarding leads training to meet their statutory requirements for two yearly training suitable for their role.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course you will have:
— Refreshed your understanding of the Designated Safeguarding Lead’s role and responsibilities
— Updated your knowledge of key and emerging themes in safeguarding children
— Considered the key messages for education professionals from recent analyses of child safeguarding practice reviews, and
— Identified what constitutes an effective safeguarding culture in education settings.
The training is highly participative, and you are encouraged to bring questions and examples from your own professional practice. It will be informed throughout by relevant law, guidance, procedures, theory, child safeguarding practice reviews (formerly serious case reviews) and current research, and will be supported by a comprehensive handout pack.
Target Audience:
School staff who are Designated Safeguarding Leads. Please note that only one representative per setting can attend this training session.
The CSCP will be delivering both face-to-face and virtual safeguarding training over the spring term. Please ensure that you have read the course description, so you are clear on the delivery method for the course you have booked. Further details will be shared with you closer to the course date.
— Delegates need to register for a CSCP training account (if there’s not already one active).
— Apply to join the course.
— An automated confirmation email will be received if your application is successful.
— Further details will be shared before the course date including the location of the course.
— Complete the three-stage evaluation which delegates will receive by email.
If the session you are attending is virtual:
— Please make sure you can access Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
— There is an expectation that all delegates engage and fully participate in the sessions and always have their camera on.
— Keep questions general, and avoid giving any information that could be used to identify a child or family.
— Use headphones or a headset and always keep your speaker on mute if you’re not speaking.
— Don’t record any of the online conversation.
— Make sure other people you live with, especially children, are not in the room and cannot overhear sensitive information.
— Don’t use any other devices while you’re taking part.
— Join on laptop or PC for a better experience.
Failure of any of the above will result in the delegate not receiving their certificate of accreditation.
