Safeguarding is preventative. It involves protecting children’s safety and wellbeing, whilst also encouraging their natural, healthy development – academically, physically, socially, and emotionally.

Child protection is a part of safeguarding. It focuses on an individual child who is suffering, or likely to suffer harm, and aims to protect them through child protection procedures which clearly set out how concerns should be addressed.

During this Safeguarding Children Level 3 course, we begin by taking you through levels 1 and 2 to cover the basics that all people working with children need to be aware of. We then build on this to discuss the level 3 aspects which are specific to your role as a DSL.

This training is a great introduction if you’re new to Level 3 for DSLs and it’s also an incredibly valuable refresher if you’re already experienced. Although it doesn’t cover minute details connected to your workplace in particular, it does complement your organisation’s policies and procedures – so please refresh yourself on those whenever you need to.

This course is also a valuable introduction for anybody in an organisation that works with children with lead safeguarding responsibilities.

Advantages & Target Audience

This Safeguarding Children – Level 3/DSO Training course covers the key aspects of child protection including recognising risks to children’s safety and wellbeing, the importance of responding to those risks, how to go about recording concerns, what to do when concerns are reported, and making referrals to the relevant partners and agencies. 

The course can be completed in just over 2 hours and provides the user with a printable certificate upon completion.

Learning Outcomes

• Being able to recognise abuse.
• Know how to make a record and manage a child protection file.
• Understanding your DSL safeguarding role and responsibilities.