Safeguarding training for charity trustees

Elearning to help you carry out your safeguarding duties to protect children and young people who come into contact with your organisation

Are you a charity trustee and want to better understand your role in creating a safer culture and protecting children and young people who come into contact with your charity?

Created by experts in safeguarding, this elearning course will help you to understand your duties in protecting your beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and visitors.

What will I learn?

The course consists of 4 modules with each module taking 20-30 minutes to complete, followed by a set of questions. You’ll be given a full explanation of the correct and incorrect answers to the questions to help you develop your understanding and confidence.

By the end of the course you’ll understand:

the UK framework of legislation and guidance underpinning a trustee’s safeguarding role
specific statutory responsibilities to help you keep children and young people safe
how to create a safe and trusted culture and organisational environment
how to work with, support and challenge your management team to ensure your charity is operating according to good safeguarding principles and practice.

Benefits of the course

CPD certified.
Course updated in November 2023
No previous safeguarding training needed.
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.
Purchasing licences on behalf of your team? Easily download reports to show who has completed the course.
Includes film interviews with trustees from different charities, scenario-based exercises 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 protect the people who come into contact with your organisation.
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?

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.

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.

Quantity	Price per person
1-9	£25.00
10-49	£22.50
50-99	£21.25
100-999	£20.00