This Level 2 award is designed to address an identified and growing requirement in the UK for people in paid and volunteer roles to develop a practical and practicable understanding of Safeguarding for children and young people 5-18yrs in their care. This includes both professional (paid) and volunteer roles settings, including care, community centres and projects, events, charities, faith groups, and activity or sports groups or clubs dealing with children and young people 5-18yrs of age.
Significant changes in attitudes towards safeguarding, in particular the protection of children and young people, and identified failures within policies and procedures, have raised the profile of this issue and highlighted a lack of understanding, training and basic policies, procedures and preparedness within many organisations. This unit seeks to directly address this deficit through raising awareness, exploring a variety of response scenarios, and providing basic proforma materials for an organisation to develop a basic practical policy and reporting procedure.
This award initially explores the meaning of Safeguarding, what legal basis there is and who it seeks to protect, how to identify potential abuse, how to respond and how and what to record following an incident or allegation (indirect or direct disclosure). Finally, is seeks to embed this understanding by exploring a range of scenarios involving children and young people, inviting the learner to make decisions on how they would act and considering the consequences of their responses.