Safeguarding Children Level 4 Certification
This course outlines how safeguarding works to support children’s wellbeing, how to identify abuse and what to do if you suspect that a child is being mistreated.
If you are responsible for the care of children, whether in your personal or professional life, this course will help you keep them safe.
If you are considering starting a career in a childcare or education-based field, this course will prepare you to understand and meet your safeguarding duties.
You will be in a position to help victims of abuse, allowing you to make an enormous difference to their long-term health and wellbeing.
Your new knowledge will enable you to navigate media discourse and debates around child protection and safeguarding.
There are no entry requirements to take the course.
The course is broken down into 22 individual modules. Each module takes between 20 and 90 minutes on average to study. Although students are free to spend as much or as little time as they feel necessary on each module.
The course can be studied study at any time and from any internet connected device
Once you have completed all 10 modules there is a multiple choice test. The questions will be on a range of topics found within the 10 modules. The test, like the course, is online and can be taken a time and location of your choosing.
The pass mark for the test is 70%.
If the user doesn’t pass the test first time they will get further opportunities to take the test again after extra study. There are no limits to the number of times a test can be taken.
We estimate that the course will take about 10 hours to complete in total, plus an additional 30 minutes for the end of course test.