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Principles of safeguarding and child protection masterclass

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Price

£20

Format
Online
Duration

45 minutes to 1 hour

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Access our on-demand video and protect children and young people

Build your core knowledge of how to keep children safe with our masterclass on understanding the principles of safeguarding and child protection.

Listen to our experts run through the types of abuse, who is most vulnerable and the 4 Rs: recognise, respond, report and record.

We'll explore how to identify and respond to low-level concerns and build a positive safeguarding cultures in your school, organisation or workplace.

This vital session includes real-life scenarios and reflective activities to ensure you stay at the forefront of safeguarding practices.

Benefits of the masterclass

  • On-demand training to complete at a convenient time.
  • Pause-and-reflect activities to boost your confidence.
  • Compliant with legislation and guidance in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
  • CPD certified.
  • Personalised downloadable certificate.
98%
of our customers would recommend NSPCC training
* We received 32,034 evaluation forms from people who had taken our elearning courses between 1st April 2024 - 31st March 2025. 31,514 (98.4%) said they would recommend the course they had taken.

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. If you choose to use a mobile device we would recommend watching the video in full screen mode.

Videos clips hosted on the video sharing site Vimeo feature in some of our courses. Video playback controls will vary and are dependent on the browser used to take the course. Your browser may automatically mute the video when it starts playing, but you should be able to unmute the video using the speaker icon on the bottom right of the player toolbar.

If you experience problems with videos then we recommend you try using a different browser.

Having trouble with the course?

Try:

  • updating your web browser
  • clearing your cache
  • accepting our cookies (essential cookies are required)
  • turning off private browsing
  • enabling JavaScript
  • permitting access to videos on Vimeo
  • setting the following web domain to ‘trusted’: https://mylearning.nspcc.org.uk
  • watching the video in full screen mode.

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.

Access our masterclass

QuantityPrice per person
1-9£20.00
10-49£18.00
50-99£17.00
100-999£16.00

You can select between the version for education or for all organisations and individuals working or volunteering with children when you click through to buy.

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Any questions? Call 0116 234 7246 or email learning@nspcc.org.uk

Income generated from the sale of our masterclasses is reinvested back into the NSPCC to help protect children.

“I found the video format really helpful and will be able to remember those scenarios when working [with children] myself.”



Training customer

“I'll take the principles and lessons from the course into my practice and will be consciously alert to make sure I support the young people I work with.”



Training customer