We often get asked, which is better online or face-to-face child protection training?  Well, it depends on your circumstances really. Face-to-face training allows the topic to be explored in more depth but has the downside that you must attend the course at a specific place and time.  The extra time involved and travelling costs can often be a major problem. As a general rule, face-to-face training courses also tend to be more expensive on a per person, per course basis.

Online child protection training courses are a more cost-effective delivery method for learners who find it difficult to attend face-to-face training programmes.  They often come with online management tools so you can track the status of everyone’s training and maintain a central training record.  This is great when you get an unexpected inspection from Ofsted for example!

At the ChildProtectionCompany.com we get round the problem by offering both training types. But that’s because we always put the needs of the user first.

If you work in a health setting how can you be sure that all the necessary safeguarding requirements are being fulfilled?

Assured Safeguarding GP & Health Leader Edition – 2012, a booklet produced in the East Midlands, by safeguarding leads group and the Strategic Health Authority, poses questions to help leaders to reflect on how they know whether their management procedures assure them that children are being kept safe.

Questions for GP’s and Health Providers include:

1. How do I give clear leadership in assessing and managing the risks to individual children?
2. Do I know that all staff have received the appropriate level of training?
3. How do I ensure that all safeguarding checks on employees have been carried out?
4. Do commissioners have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the unique needs of children to ensure their safeguarding needs are met?
5. What processes do I have in place for the early identification of vulnerable children and young people?
6. How do I ensure that health and social care agencies jointly and effectively assess the safeguarding risks?
7. Do we have a good working relationship with social care services and know how to refer a child protection issue?
8. What do I do to help staff understand that safeguarding is our core business?
9. Do I regularly and rigorously review our safeguarding practice?
10. What do I need to do to make sure that all staff know what they are accountable for?

ChildProtectionCompany.com provides a wealth of resources for health providers, to assist in ensuring safeguarding responsibilities are fulfilled.  These resources include:

• Online and face-to-face child and child/adult protection training
• Support packages with comprehensive checklists and policy documents
• An accreditation scheme
• e-Safety training

With dedicated Dental versions of the online training courses ChildProtectionCompany.com training is CQC compliant, recognised by the British Dental Association and approved for 3 hours of CPD.

When you take one of our child protection courses, did you know that you get a fully portable certificate? Each certificate contains a unique identification number which allows anyone to check whether a certificate is valid and still current.  To verify a certificate simply go to our certificate verification page on our website.

The phrase blended training might not be familiar but it’s an area that is growing rapidly.  Essentially blended child protection training combines the benefits of face-to-face training with online training.

All of our face-to-face training is now offered as blended training as standard.  Each participant on the course not only has an interactive face-to-face session with our expert child protection trainers but is also provided with access to an online training course as well.  One of the key benefits of this, is that the learners understanding can be verified after they’ve completed the face-to-face course.

This is a topic we’ll expand on further in future blogs but if you do have any questions in the mean time, please do contact us

If you work in a school or education setting how can you be sure that all the necessary safeguarding requirements are being fulfilled?  Assured Safeguarding Leaders in schools and early years settings, a booklet produced in the East Midlands by safeguarding leads and the Strategic Health Authority, poses questions to help leaders to reflect on how they know whether their management procedures assure them that children are being kept safe. Questions for Head teachers & leaders include:

1. How do I know that all staff give priority to keeping children safe and feeling safe?
2. Am I confident that policy and procedures follow the Local Safeguarding Children Board and Local Authority guidance and when were they last updated?
3. What do I do to ensure we are working well with other agencies?
4. How do I make sure that relationships with parents and carers help us to keep children safe?
5. Do I have a clear, robust communication policy and procedures for staff, pupils, parents and carers?
6. How do I ensure that all staff checks have been carried out?
7. What processes do I have in place for the early identification of vulnerable children and young people?
8. Do I know that all staff have received the appropriate level of training?
9. How do I know that this training is helping to keep children safe?
10. What do I do to help staff understand that safeguarding is our core business?

The ChildProtectionCompany.com provides a wealth of resources for schools and educational settings to enable  safeguarding responsibilities to be fulfilled.  These resources include:

• Online child protection training courses
• Face-to-face child protection training
• Child protection support packages with comprehensive checklists and policy documents
• An accreditation scheme
• e-Safety training

Which is better, online or face-to-face training?

It depends on your circumstances really. Face-to-face training allows the subject to be explored in more depth but then you must attend the course at a specific place and time. This may well involve you travelling to a venue with all the attendant costs and travel time.

As a general rule, face-to-face training courses also tend to be more expensive on a per person, per course basis. This makes online training the more cost-effective delivery method for learners who find it inconvenient to attend face-to-face training programmes.

However for organisations and groups purchasing online training courses, good online training providers will provide a set of online management tools so you can track the status of everyone’s online training and keep  central training record. Great when you get an unexpected inspection from Ofsted for example.

So it’s horses for courses really. At the ChildProtectionCompany.com we get round the problem by offering both training types. But that’s because we always put the needs of the user first.