Principles of safeguarding and child protection masterclass

This on-demand masterclass is designed for anyone working or volunteering with babies, children and young people.

You can select between a version for education or a version for all organisations and individuals working or volunteering with children.

The education version is for anyone working or volunteering in schools, academies or colleges in the UK including:

• teachers
• teaching assistants
• support staff
• governors and trustees.

The version for all organisations and individuals is for anyone working or volunteering with children including:

• charities, charity workers and volunteers
• sport clubs, coaches and instructors
• early years practitioners such as nursery workers and childminders
• housing officers
• event organisers
• people working with children's leisure and entertainment or religious organisations
• district council staff, for example leisure centre staff and park keepers
• lone workers such as tutors, music teachers.

Our masterclasses are pre-recorded videos of our safeguarding experts guiding you through a topic and sharing their real-life experience of child protection.

They include instructions to pause and reflect to complete exercises and activities that help to embed the learning.

These masterclasses are available on-demand, with immediate access after purchase, allowing learners to complete at a time that is convenient for them.

You can start and stop as needed, complete in one go or multiple sessions and can revisit as many times as you like within a year of purchase.

Our masterclasses 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.

This masterclass can be accessed 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.

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

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.