Safeguarding

Our youngest children are growing up online — make sure your setting keeps them safe. This online course covers age-appropriate digital risks, safe screen use, parental partnership, and how to build early online-safety habits that protect children and meet EYFS expectations.

Emotional wellbeing is the foundation every child learns from. This online course helps early years practitioners understand how wellbeing develops, recognise when a child is struggling, build secure relationships and safe routines, and support both children's and colleagues' mental health in your setting.

Human trafficking and modern slavery can hide in plain sight. This online course helps early years staff understand how trafficking affects children and families, recognise the indicators, meet your safeguarding and reporting duties, and refer concerns safely through the correct channels.

Domestic abuse affects one in four women and touches children of every age. This online course helps early years staff recognise the signs, understand the impact on child development and behaviour, respond sensitively to disclosures, and refer safely in line with safeguarding procedures.

FGM is a safeguarding issue and a criminal offence in the UK. This online course equips early years staff to understand the practice and its impact, recognise warning signs and at-risk indicators, meet the mandatory reporting duty, and refer safely and sensitively when concerns arise.

Domestic abuse, parental mental ill-health, and substance misuse rarely travel alone. This online course helps early years staff understand how the "toxic trio" compounds risk for children, spot the indicators across the three areas, and respond through clear safeguarding action.

Every early years practitioner has a safeguarding role. This Level 2 online course grounds you in Working Together to Safeguard Children, the four categories of abuse, how to recognise and respond to concerns, and the referral pathways that keep every child in your care protected.