Safeguarding training for schools, academies and colleges

Online child protection course for anyone working in education

Improve your understanding and confidence in recognising and responding to concerns about a child with our interactive elearning course from the safeguarding experts.

As you work through the course, innovative branching case scenarios allow you to choose the context that best suits your needs – primary or secondary and college settings – or you can choose to take them all.

There are five modules each taking around 30-45 minutes to complete. You can stop and start as you need and questions at the end of each module are followed with full explanations of the correct and incorrect answers to help develop your knowledge and skills.

What will I learn?

After completing the course you will be able to:

understand what safeguarding and child protection means in primary, secondary and college settings
identify the relevant legislation and guidance for safeguarding in education
recognise the different types, signs and indicators of abuse and neglect
understand how to respond to concerns and provide a response that’s best for the child or the children involved
understand the correct procedures for reporting concerns and know who to report to
recognise the importance of recording your concerns and the principles of good recording.

Save with our training packages for schools

Buy this course as a package of four courses covering the key areas you need to know about safeguarding and child protection: Safeguarding for schools, academies and colleges, safeguarding children with SEND, online safety and harmful sexual behaviour (HSB). Cost: £95

See schools training packages

Benefits of the courses

4 nation compliant covering England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Regularly updated to reflect changes in legislation, guidance and best practice advice (last updated in April 2024).
Includes interviews with experts and practitioners in the field, interactive quizzes, film scenarios and reflective tasks to help you develop your understanding and confidence.
Branching scenarios to cover safeguarding children in primary and secondary or college settings.
Complete at your own pace and in your own time.
Train anytime, anywhere and take the course as many times as you like within one year.
Purchasing licences on behalf of your team? Easily download reports to show who has completed the course.
Personalised downloadable certificate of achievement.
Once you’ve taken the course, it doesn’t stop there. We have a range of further information, training and downloadable resources to help you protect the children you work with.
Income generated from the sale of our training courses is reinvested back into the NSPCC to help protect children.

98%

of our customers would recommend NSPCC training

* We received 39,176 evaluation forms from people who had taken our elearning and face-to-face/virtual live training courses between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023. 38,394 (98%) said they would recommend the course they had taken.

Who is this course for?

This course is for anyone working or volunteering in schools, academies or colleges in the UK including: teachers, teaching assistants and support staff who come into contact with children and young people.

We also have courses for those in specific roles:

school governors, trustees or board members,
designated leads, named leads and lead officers
supporting children who have additional needs and disabilities (SEND/ASN/ALN)
and a range of additional safeguarding and child protection training courses and webinars for schools and colleges.

This course is also available as part of our elearning packages for schools.

Why take your training with the NSPCC?

At the NSPCC, we work to keep children and young people safe from abuse and neglect every day.

As experts in safeguarding and child protection, we understand the issues organisations and people working with children can face. That’s why professionals trust us to provide the support, training and resources they need to help protect the children and young people they work with.

Our highly-rated training courses are developed by experts. We work with a number of organisations, experienced consultants and subject matter experts in a range of sectors to develop courses that are clear, easy-to-use, up-to-date and in line with the latest statutory guidance, and tailored to your needs.

And as a charity, income generated from the sale of our training courses is reinvested back into the NSPCC to help protect children.

Technical requirements

Our online courses will work in most browsers, though we recommend that you use Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Safari (not Firefox). You will need to make sure your browser is up to date for the course to run.

This course can be taken on PCs and Macs, as well as iPads or other tablet devices. Please note, we are unable to provide full technical support for tablet users. We do not support other mobile devices.

Having trouble with the course?

Try:

clearing your cache
accepting our cookies (essential cookies are required for the purposes of undertaking our elearning)
turning off private browsing
permitting access to videos on Vimeo
setting the following web domain to ‘trusted’: https://mylearning.nspcc.org.uk

Call us on 0116 234 7246 or email learning@nspcc.org.uk if you have any questions.

CPD-certified online course

This elearning course is CPD certified by the CPD Certification Service. This means you can be confident that the training meets the highest standards.

Continuing professional development, or CPD for short, helps professionals keep their skills and knowledge up to date. It demonstrates your commitment to safeguarding children and upholding the standards of your profession.

Some professional associations have mandatory CPD or safeguarding training requirements for their members, but all professionals will benefit from investing time in their CPD. And taking an online CPD course means you can train at your own pace, wherever suits you.