Safer Working Practice

Course description

Anyone working with children and young people need to ensure they understand how to manage their own behaviour and that of other employees and the children themselves when dealing with professionals and volunteers.

This course will help learners to get a better insight into how situations can develop and how to effectively respond.

This course goes into detail about how to manage behaviour when working with children and young people, to be more aware of how situations can develop, and gives guidance on working practices suitable for a wide range of professionals and volunteers.

This course covers the following:

• Why safe working practices are necessary
• Guidance for both children and adults around safe working practices
• Protocols, procedures and terminology
• Relevant legislation and government guidance
• Management of allegations
• Behaviour, what is appropriate and how to manage it.

The course includes a wide range of scenarios to enable the learner to reflect on own practice and engage in their learning; it also includes knowledge check challenges throughout and links to appropriate external organisations.

It is suitable for a range of roles such as teachers, social workers, police, volunteers and others working with vulnerable children and young people.

You will learn

• Increase your awareness of issues relating to allegations management
• Gain confidence in challenging inappropriate behaviour
• Understand the importance of sharing information appropriately and keeping record
• Be able to identify signs of inappropriate behaviour towards children and young people

Certification

After completing this course, you will be able to download a Virtual College certificate, which you can print for your records.

Course duration

This course should take between one to two hours to complete, but our e-learning courses are entirely self-paced, so this depends on your individual learning speed.