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Safeguarding refresher course for schools

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Price

£25 per person

Format
Online
Duration

90 minutes

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Stay up to date and comply with annual safeguarding training requirements with this short online course

Update and reinforce your safeguarding knowledge with our refresher course for schools.

In 90 minutes, you’ll cover the foundations of safeguarding and child protection, including:

  • what safeguarding means and why it matters
  • roles and responsibilities
  • definitions, signs and indicators of abuse and neglect
  • how to respond appropriately to concerns
  • what, when and how to report
  • how to record concerns effectively
  • creating a safer environment in your school.

Through teaching pages, films and learning activities you’ll explore the key principles and updates in safeguarding and child protection – without having to re-take a full course.

New to safeguarding?

This course is for staff and volunteers who have previously completed basic safeguarding and child protection in schools training, such as our Safeguarding training for schools, academies and colleges.

Benefits of this course

  • Short course to help you refresh your safeguarding knowledge.
  • Suitable for learners in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
  • Complete at your own page and in your own time.
  • Learn through teaching pages, films and activities.
  • Personalised downloadable certificate of achievement.
  • Further resources and information are signposted when you complete the course.
  • Income generated from the sale of our training courses is reinvested into the NSPCC to help protect children. 
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 course is for anyone working or volunteering in schools, academies and colleges in the UK who has previously completed full safeguarding and child protection in schools training.

This includes teachers, teaching assistants and support staff who come into contact with children in young people.

If you need a full introduction to safeguarding, see our Safeguarding training for schools, academies and colleges.

We also have training for:

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.

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.

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.

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QuantityPrice per person
1-9£25.00
10-49£22.50
50-99£21.25
100-999£20.00
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Buying for your organisation? If you would like to host this course on your learning management system call us on 0116 234 7246 or email learning@nspcc.org.uk.

"A wonderful refresher of examples that may present themselves within my classroom"



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"Embedded my knowledge and refreshed all aspects of safeguarding."



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