Specialist
Safeguarding Children
Training
Keeping up to date with your role, responsibilities and clinical interventions for helping to keep children safe is a crucial part of the child protection process.
NHS Haringey states that child protection training is a mandatory requirement for any staff member that has contact with users.
Child protection training is mandatory for all staff that work with the public. Staff who work directly with children must undertake at least one day every other year, and all other staff should undertake one half-day eve ry two years.
All TPCT corporate inductions include a very basic child protection briefing.
Level one introductory courses are available through the Trust internal programme, and more specialised level two and level three multi-agency training is available through the Local Safeguarding Children Board.
Compliance with mandatory training will be monitored through the appraisal system.
NHS Haringey Child Protection Training Strategy
The needs of those who work directly with children, with families and with adults are sophisticated and complex, as are the supervision structures in which they operate. Child Protection training is a key part of the various support and development interventions that are designed to equip people to better meet the ‘Staying Safe’ outcome within Every Child Matters (DfES 2004).
The child protection training offered within the TPCT compliments the inter-agency child protection training planned and run by the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB).
All training courses should help staff to be able to reflect on practice from different perspectives and to develop a tool box of skills to help them work effectively with children and families.
All of our child protection training is designed to provide attendees with up-to-date information and knowledge. Our courses allow staff to creatively explore new clinical skills that they can use with children and families within the clear legislative framework that exists.
The whole training programme is based on a three tier framework. It recognises a progression from basic knowledge about predisposing factors, signs and indicators (Level 1) through to specialist knowledge and skills (Level 3). Level 1 is available within the TPCT, Level 2 and 3 are available from the LSCB training programme. It sets this progression within a context of differing needs, based on the differing roles, responsibilities and expected level of competencies of staff within their own organizations. This structure ensures that all staff can identify the training that is most appropriate to their needs.
All our training courses are evaluated by the people who attend them and increasingly by the managers who identify the training as a need for particular staff. They are set within the competency framework of the Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for the Children’s Workforce (DfES 2005) and the Knowledge Skills Framework. The subject matter covered by the courses is regularly reviewed in the light of these evaluations and the recommendations of inspections and Serious Case Reviews.
Staff groups and Safeguarding Training - Who should do what?
Further Information
All Teaching PCT Staff MUST complete a 
Course Application Form
Study Leave Forms should be sent to:
Astrid von Volckamer
Staff Development Administrator
Room 6, Block 6, St Ann's Hospital, St Ann's Road, London N15 3TH
t: 020 8442 6270
f: 020 8442 6654
e: astrid.vonvolckamer@haringey.nhs.uk
