Safeguarding and Child Protection Training for Childminders

• Understanding the key areas of responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
• Understanding of the legislation and guidance underpinning policy, procedures and practice when responding to concerns about a child’s safety or welfare
• Ability to evidence compliance with OfSTED requirements to ensure all children are safe
• Ensuring that all Childminders are clear about possible indicators of ‘abuse’ and how these should be managed
• Awareness of the definitions of abuse and neglect and significant harm in order to make appropriate referrals for intervention. Staff must be able to identify these at the earliest opportunity and to respond in a timely and appropriate way.
• Awareness of the process for reporting concerns to Children’s Social Care
• Understanding the processes followed by Children’s Social Care when a referral is made and the thresholds for intervention
• Learning from serious case reviews to ensure best practice
• Awareness of best safeguarding practice and how this safeguards children and staff in relation to confidentiality, information sharing, information gathering, recording, whistle blowing, professional boundaries, allegations against professionals and managing disclosures of abuse from children in order to promote the best outcomes for children

Please note - this training meets the Keeping Children Safe in Education 2016 guidance, the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework guidance and the LA's model Safeguarding Policy and Providers must have regard to the Government's statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children.