This human trafficking training for early years staff gives your team a clear, professional understanding of one of the most serious safeguarding issues they may ever encounter. Human trafficking is the movement of people by force, fraud, coercion or deception with the aim of exploiting them — a form of modern slavery made up of three elements: the act, the means and the purpose. Men, women and children of any age and background can become victims, and it happens in every region of the world, including here in the UK.
For a nursery or early years setting, this is far from an abstract topic. Trafficking is a hidden crime that can touch children and families in any community, and your practitioners are often well placed to notice when something is not right. This course ensures your team knows what to look for and, crucially, what to do next.
What you’ll learn
- What human trafficking is and the different forms it can take
- The three elements of trafficking: the act, the means and the purpose
- Who is most likely to become a victim, and the common risk factors
- How to recognise potential signs and indicators in children and families
- How trafficking connects with wider safeguarding concerns
- Your legal responsibilities and reporting duties when you have a concern
- How to refer concerns and access support for potential victims
- How to challenge common assumptions and misconceptions about modern slavery
Who this course is for
This course is suitable for all early years practitioners, whatever their role or level of experience. Awareness of human trafficking indicators forms part of every setting’s safeguarding responsibilities, so it works well both as individual CPD and as whole-team safeguarding training.
Why this training matters
Safeguarding is a shared duty across your whole team, and human trafficking is one of the harder issues to spot precisely because it is designed to stay hidden. Training your staff to recognise the indicators — and to understand their reporting duties — strengthens your setting’s safeguarding practice and gives you recognised evidence of staff development for compliance and Ofsted audit.
How the course works
The course is delivered entirely online, so your team can learn at their own pace, on any device, at a time that suits your rota. The media-rich content includes voiceovers throughout, and the course takes around one hour to complete.
Your certificate
Successful candidates are awarded the National Nursery Training Human Trafficking Course Completion Certificate, which can be used as evidence for compliance and audit and counts towards your team’s continuing professional development (CPD). National Nursery Training is an NFAQ-accredited provider and an accredited CPD Training Provider (#776846) with the CPD Accreditation Group.
