This course is designed for trustees of charities operating in the UK, but the principles also apply to international charities.
If you are a school trustee, you may be interested in our course for school governors and academy 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 four 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.
