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Safeguarding refresher training

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Price

£25 per person

Format
Online
Duration

90 minutes

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Update and build on your safeguarding knowledge and feel confident in keeping children and young people safe

Our safeguarding refresher course will help you feel confident in safeguarding children and young people. This training covers the essential knowledge you need, including a recap on the 4Rs of safeguarding and the steps to take to keep children and young people safe.

In an hour and a half you’ll refresh your knowledge of:

  • what safeguarding and child protection mean
  • how to recognise the signs and indicators of abuse and neglect
  • what steps you must take to respond to safeguarding concerns
  • how and when to report a concern
  • what you must record and how to keep clear and detailed records.

This course is designed for those who have previously completed full safeguarding and child protection training. It offers a concise overview of the key principles and updates in safeguarding and child protection practice.

You’ll learn through teaching pages, film clips and learning activities to help you build on and reinforce your knowledge.

New to safeguarding?

If you have not previously completed safeguarding training, take our full introduction to safeguarding and child protection course.

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 pace and in your own time.
  • Learn through teaching pages, videos 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 with children and young people in the UK who has previously completed full safeguarding and child protection training.

It is suitable for all organisations and sectors. We also have a dedicated introductory 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
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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.

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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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.

"Thank you for the course. It was useful as a good reminder and refresher."



Refresher course customer

"It has given me the confidence to recognise the possible signs of abuse and neglect and respond appropriately."



Refresher course customer