Mental health and wellbeing safeguarding children training

Online course to help recognise, respond to and support children and young people's mental health in schools and colleges

Gain the confidence you need to effectively identify mental health issues that may become safeguarding concerns, and learn how to support and protect the children and young people you work with.

Schools play an important role in promoting and supporting positive mental health and emotional wellbeing. This online training course focuses on the safeguarding and child protection concerns that can occur as a result of a child or young person struggling with their mental health.

What will I learn?

This course contains teaching pages, videos, example scenarios, reflective opportunities and quizzes to help consolidate your learning.

By the end of the course you will understand:

your safeguarding and child protection responsibilities relating to mental health and emotional wellbeing
how to identify and report concerns that might indicate mental health issues
how negative experiences such as abuse and neglect can have an adverse impact on children's mental health and may lead to safeguarding and child protection issues
the importance of empowering children and young people and listening to their views, needs and opinions
how to discuss concerns and support children and young people with their emotional wellbeing
how best to work with parents, carers and other agencies.

Benefits of the course

CPD certified.
Up-to-date and in line with the key legislation and guidance in all four UK nations.
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.
Personalised downloadable certificate of achievement.
If you purchase multiple licences for your team, you can download a report to show who has completed the course.
Includes scenarios, interactive quizzes and reflective tasks to help you develop your understanding and confidence.
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 keep children safe.
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 35,644 evaluation forms from people who had taken our elearning courses between 1st April 2023 - 31st March 2024. 35,074 (98.4%) said they would recommend the course they had taken.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for all school staff.

The examples used relate specifically to school settings and reporting processes. However, anyone who comes into contact with children and young people is in a position to recognise and respond to mental health concerns. This course may also be of interest to those working outside of education settings such as youth group leaders and sports coaches.

It is suitable for professionals across the UK and covers the legislation relating to mental health, safeguarding and child protection in each nation.

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 on 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.

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.

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?

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clearing your cache
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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.

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1-9	£30.00
10-49	£27.00
50-99	£25.50
100-999	£24.00