Safeguarding Lead Level 3 (DSL)

Overview

This Designated Safeguarding Lead course will help you to understand the safeguarding and child protection process in more detail and teach you more about what the role involves.

It explores how to effectively create a culture of safeguarding, raise awareness of safeguarding and child protection issues in your organisation and respond to concerns and make referrals. The course contains a variety of scenarios, reflections and exercises to enable you to apply your learning, and throughout the course, you will find a range of downloadable resources to help you review and develop the safeguarding and child protection procedures within your organisation.

Details

What will I learn on this course?

At the end of this training, you will be able to:

• Understand and describe their roles and responsibilities as the Designated Safeguarding Lead
• Be clear about the difference between safeguarding and child protection
• Establish a safeguarding culture within their setting
• Ensure the policies and procedures in their setting sit within the legislative and statutory guidance safeguarding framework
• Understand the need to respond to all safeguarding and child protection concerns, including low-level concerns
• Ensure they and their setting respond appropriately to children's differing levels of need within the safeguarding framework and understand the local threshold document
• Understand what makes a good referral
• Understand and explain their role in any assessment process and/or interventions put in place following the assessment
• Describe the actions they and their setting need to take if you disagree with actions or decisions made
• Recognise when and if it is appropriate to share information and with whom and understand how information should be recorded and stored

Certification

Successful candidates will receive certification of achievement.