Training for school and education staff

Develop or refresh your awareness and understanding of child protection in schools, academies and colleges.

Cost: £35 per person

Ensure your safer recruitment processes are effective, from preparing to recruit staff or volunteers through shortlisting, interviewing and carrying out vetting and barring checks.

Cost: from £35 to £245 per person

Gain the skills and confidence you need to help keep children safe online and respond appropriately to concerns including new and emerging online harms, sex and relationships online and online bullying.

Cost: £30 per person

As the UK's leading child protection charity, our training courses are built upon our extensive experience and knowledge about keeping children safe.

And, as a charity, income generated from the sale of our training courses is reinvested back into the NSPCC to help protect children and young people across the UK.

Learn about your responsibilities as a Designated safeguarding lead (DSL) in England with our new-to-role training, or build on your existing skills and knowledge about dealing with complex safeguarding concerns with our refresher course.

Cost: from £225 per person

Understand your safeguarding responsibilities and role in creating a safer culture in your school. Learn about policies, procedures, principles and practice so you can play your part in ensuring a consistent and whole-school approach to keeping children and young people safe.

Cost: £25 per person

Gain a comprehensive understanding of strategic safeguarding, how to provide effective leadership and challenge, and develop practical skills for managing safeguarding at scale in your academy, school or college.

Cost: from £450 per person

Get the knowledge and skills you need to recognise, report and record sexualised behaviour concerns in both primary and secondary school settings.

Cost: £35 per person

Learn what steps you need to take to respond appropriately to incidents of nude image sharing or sexting – whether images, videos or livestreams. Covers how to recognise when sharing imagery is harmful sexual behaviour and how to respond appropriately. 

Cost: £25 per person

Feel confident to deliver inclusive sex and relationships education with our online courses for secondary school teachers and leaders. Part of our Talk Relationships service that supports schools to overcome any challenges they may face when delivering sex and relationships education.

Cost: Free

Hear from the NSPCC's experts about current child protection topics for schools and colleges. These virtual sessions take place on Zoom at the end of the school day, helping you keep up to date with the latest safeguarding issues and best practice.

Learn when mental health issues become safeguarding concerns and how to support the children and young people in your school or college.

Cost: £30 per person

Find out how you can better identify safeguarding concerns and communicate effectively when working with pupils with special educational needs and disabilities and additional needs.

Cost: £30 per person