Thoroughly understand how to build a safe space for children and young people to feel safe and looked after! This training is the perfect way to ensure that you have the skills to protect children and young people.
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Safeguarding Officer Training is designed to strengthen safeguarding, protection, and professional duty across settings involving children and adults. This training builds awareness of abuse, risk identification, and reporting procedures. Learners develop understanding of safeguarding policy, legal guidance, and responsibilities required to maintain safety, ensure protection, and support vulnerable individuals effectively.
Through structured modules including introduction to safeguarding, laws and guidance, child abuse, and child sexual exploitation, this training enhances practical knowledge. It equips participants to assess risk, respond to disclosure, and follow correct reporting procedures. Emphasis is placed on safeguarding policy, duty of care, and protection for children and adults in all environments.
Further modules cover risk assessment, referral processes, record keeping, and post-report actions. Safeguarding Officer Training ensures professionals understand abuse indicators, maintain accurate reporting, and apply safeguarding principles consistently. It reinforces responsibility, legal compliance, and protection standards, enabling effective decision-making when working with children and adults in high-risk situations ensuring safeguarding duty compliance.
Learners complete an assignment and can take a mock exam to practice and improve their understanding before the final multiple-choice exam. Tutors provide personalised feedback on the assignment. The final exam is automatically marked, and learners must achieve at least 60% to receive a CPD-certified certificate.
After completing the Safeguarding Officer Training course assessment, you will be eligible to receive a CPD-accredited certificate worth £9 from One Education to demonstrate your achievement.
The certificate is also available as a printed hard copy delivered by post for £15.
Quality Licence Scheme Endorsed Certificate
Learners also have the option to order a Quality Licence Scheme (QLS) Endorsed Certificate as additional proof of achievement. The QLS Endorsed Certificate can be delivered by post for £109, with an additional £10 postage charge for international students.
This course has been endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme for its high-quality, non-regulated provision and training programmes. This course is not regulated by Ofqual and is not an accredited qualification. Your training provider will be able to advise you on any further recognition, for example progression routes into further and/or higher education. For further information please visit the Learner FAQs on the Quality Licence Scheme website.
Studying Safeguarding Officer Training helps you understand how to identify, respond to, and report concerns effectively. It strengthens awareness of policies and procedures designed to protect vulnerable individuals and ensures a safer environment in educational and care settings.
This training is essential for professionals working with children and adults at risk. It builds confidence in handling sensitive situations, improves decision-making under pressure, and supports compliance with legal and ethical safeguarding responsibilities across organisations.
The Safeguarding Officer Training course has a total study time of 2 weeks, 2 days. Learners can progress through the programme at a flexible pace, allowing them to build essential safeguarding knowledge and responsibilities while balancing study with other personal or professional commitments.
The Safeguarding Officer Training course is suitable for individuals responsible for protecting children, young people, or vulnerable adults in care or educational settings. No formal qualifications are required, although a basic understanding of safeguarding principles is beneficial. The course is fully online, allowing flexible study from any internet-enabled device at your own pace and convenience.
It is a course that prepares individuals to protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse, harm, and neglect.
A safeguarding officer ensures concerns about safety are reported, investigated, and managed according to safeguarding policies.
It is suitable for teachers, healthcare workers, care staff, and anyone responsible for safeguarding in their workplace.
It includes types of abuse, reporting procedures, risk assessment, legislation, and safe working practices.
It helps protect vulnerable people and ensures staff know how to respond quickly and correctly to concerns.
Learners can take on safeguarding responsibilities or act as a designated safeguarding lead within their organisation.
| Safeguarding Officer Training | |||
| Module 01: Introduction to Safeguarding | 00:21:00 | ||
| Module 02: Laws and Guidance | 00:43:00 | ||
| Module 03: Child Abuse | 00:49:00 | ||
| Module 04: Child Sexual Exploitation | 00:38:00 | ||
| Module 05: Responding to Disclosure and Reporting | 00:25:00 | ||
| Module 06: Risks and Risk Assessment | 00:16:00 | ||
| Module 07: Things to Do after Referral | 00:24:00 | ||
| Module 08: Record Keeping | 00:18:00 | ||
| Mock Exam | |||
| Mock Exam – Safeguarding Officer Training | 00:20:00 | ||
| Final Exam | |||
| Final Exam – Safeguarding Officer Training | 00:20:00 | ||
| Assignment | |||
| Assignment – Safeguarding Officer Training | 6 days, 13 hours | ||
| Recommended Materials | |||
| Workbook – Safeguarding Officer Training | Unlimited | ||
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