Annual Certificate in Safeguarding for Staff (2024-2025)

Lorna Ponambalum
Senior leader and safeguarding consultant

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1h 31m

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8 modules

Developed by Lorna Ponambalum, independent safeguarding and inclusion consultant, our brand-new safeguarding training course for school staff covers the latest updates from ‘Keeping children safe in education 2024’ and has been designed to provide you with the expertise and capability you need to carry out your role effectively.
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Statutory safeguarding guidance states that all staff have a responsibility to provide a safe environment in which children can learn. Staff should receive appropriate safeguarding and child protection training, and receive regular updates to ensure they have the relevant skills and knowledge to safeguard children effectively. 

Developed by Lorna Ponambalum, independent safeguarding and inclusion consultant, our brand-new safeguarding course for school staff covers the latest updates from ‘Keeping children safe in education 2024’ and has been designed to provide you with the expertise and capability you need to carry out your role effectivelyFor your convenience, we've recorded this course with a professional presenter.

Please note: This course provides AI-generated subtitles in multiple languages including English, Welsh, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian and Chinese. To select a language, start the video and click the Closed Captioning (CC) button.

When planning and allocating your time, please consider that this training course consists of learning through video, task completion and further reading/research. To successfully understand and achieve the objectives from the course, learners are expected to engage in all aspects of the learning process and complete all relevant activities to ensure they can successfully apply the knowledge and skills they have gained in their own setting.

Designed in line with the following policies 

Important note for non-UK learners: Although this online safeguarding course for staff reflects best practice principles and might be useful for learners outside the UK, please note that it is based solely on UK guidance and legislation. Please make sure you also adhere to relevant legislation applicable in your own country.

Please note that this course explores sensitive topics that some viewers may find distressing.

Introduction

Educational establishments have a vital role in protecting children. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. This course will help you better understand your roles and responsibilities in relation to safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. This course has been developed by Lorna Ponambalum, an independent safeguarding and inclusion consultant.

Module 1: The importance of safeguarding and child protection

This module will explore the importance of safeguarding and child protection in schools.

Module 2: Legislation and statutory guidance

This module looks at all of the key pieces of legislation and DfE statutory safeguarding guidance that ALL staff must comply with.

Module 3: Four main categories of abuse

This module focuses on the four main categories of abuse and the various impacts they can have on children’s lives.

Module 4: Types of harm

This module will consider other forma of harm that children may experience which have been recognised in safeguarding guidance.

Module 5: Recognition, response, and reporting procedures

This module will guide you through different stages of safeguarding. This module explores how to recognise, respond, and how to use your setting’s reporting procedures.

Module 6: Record keeping and information sharing

This module will consider how your setting should implement both record keeping and information sharing.

Module 7: Safeguarding curriculum and online safety

This module will consider the safeguarding curriculum and online safety, and a moment to reflect on everything you have learnt in the course.

Outcome 1:

Developing up-to-date knowledge and skills, understanding your statutory safeguarding responsibilities and recognising key pieces of legislation

Outcome 2:

Identifying and recognising the four main categories of abuse, potential risk factors and understanding the impact they can have on pupils

Outcome 3:

Recognising other types of harm pupils may be exposed to, how pupils' behaviour may be affected and what signs to look out for

Outcome 4:

Understanding how to respond to safeguarding concerns and manage disclosures safely and efficiently

Outcome 5:

Realising the importance of effective record-keeping and how to share information without potentially putting pupils at risk of further harm or abuse

Lorna Ponambalum

Lorna Ponambalum is a strategic senior leadership education professional with over 23 years of teaching experience in inner London schools. She has served on the governing board and Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and is highly experienced as a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), leading her schools to outstanding inspections for safeguarding and being recognised herself as an outstanding teacher by Ofsted.

Lorna has worked as a Mental Health Lead and the Designated LAC (Looked After Children) Teacher. She has a wealth of strategic and operational knowledge in specialist areas. She has led on and is a champion for inclusion, safeguarding, anti-bullying, attendance, behaviour, and mental health as well as being a trained mental health first aider.

Lorna has been on the SLT of two recent Ofsted inspections where the schools have been judged as ‘good with outstanding features’. She has managed large local authority (LA) safeguarding initiatives, represented on working groups, worked on self-evaluation forms (SEF) and school improvement plans (SIP) and is familiar with single central registers (SCR).

She has developed and delivered INSET and continuous professional development (CPD) training to multi-agency education professionals including teachers, pastoral and therapeutic staff as well as senior leaders. She has also managed teams and supported staff to develop and implement policy and safeguarding systems to meet quality assurance compliance cycles and standards to ensure children and young people are kept safe.