Safeguarding Children with Additional Needs

Target Audience

This course is aimed at practitioners who work within the Children’s workforce. This includes universal services, education, charities and those who provide an early help service. As well as for those practitioners who work within specialist services at statutory intervention level who wish to gain a better understanding of Safeguarding for Children with Additional needs.

Date

Course Code

To identify the need for future dates, please may you complete the application form for an expression of interest, using the date 01/04/2021 and course code EX24. Please note that the above date is not the date of training, and is only an example date.

EX24

Aims

The aim of this course is to develop the knowledge and skills of participants to enable them to work confidently and effectively in recognising and responding to situations where disabled children may be at risk or have been maltreated

Objectives

By the end of the session the course participants will have been informed how:

• To differentiate between disability and difficulty
• To have an increased awareness of the vulnerability of additional needs children and young people from potential abuse
• To recognise and respond to concerns
• To ensure the needs of disabled children are addressed within the child protection process

Please make a note of the course title, code and date - these are needed for the application form