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Safeguarding training for early years

As the UK's leading child protection charity, we work to keep babies, children and young people safe from abuse and neglect every day. 

Our highly-rated and cost-effective training courses will help you identify and respond to child protection concerns, and ensure you have the right policies and procedures to keep children safe. 

And, as a charity, income generated from the sale of our training courses is reinvested back into the NSPCC. So, by learning with us you'll be helping protect even more babies and children.

Helping you keep babies and children safe from harm

Introduction to safeguarding and child protection

Gain the knowledge and skills you need to recognise the signs of abuse and neglect, respond appropriately, and report and record your concerns. 

Safeguarding health level 4

An advanced safeguarding training course for health professionals, covering Level 4 knowledge, skills, and competencies.

Designated, named and lead officer training courses

Browse our range of training courses for designated safeguarding or child protection leads or officers in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales.

Trauma and child brain development

Explore the science behind child brain development through practical exercises, case studies, examples and more.

Non-accidental head injury (NAHI) training

Online safeguarding training course for anyone working with under 1s and families in the antenatal or postnatal period.

Children who have SEND

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

d/Deaf and disabled children

Face-to-face training to improve your awareness, knowledge and understanding of the barriers, assumptions and attitudes that may impact the safety of d/Deaf children and children who have disabilities.

Child protection supervision skills

Face-to-face training across 5 days to give you the supervision skills you need to protect children and support staff with safeguarding and child protection concerns.

Managing allegations of abuse

Advanced course on how to effectively manage allegations of abuse against staff and volunteers in England or Scotland.

Safer recruitment training

Online and face-to-face safeguarding courses to help you shortlist, interview, vet and recruit the right staff and volunteers.

Supporting you to keep children safe in the early years

See all our guidance and resources to help you put your safeguarding into practice. Early years hub

Supporting you to keep children safe in the early years

See all our guidance and resources to help you put your safeguarding into practice. Early years hub