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Child protection for school governors and trustees (2.0)

Course Description

If you are a school governor or trustee, this CPD certified four-part online training course will help you to understand your child protection responsibilities and learn how to act appropriately and confidently to protect the children in your school.

Working at your own pace, you will cover:

  • your role and responsibilities 
  • working with your school’s senior leadership team 
  • creating a safer culture 
  • preparing for safeguarding inspections

The course includes teaching pages, film clips, reflective tasks, interactive learning activities and quiz questions for you to check your learning.

elearning £25.00
Quantity Price per person
1-9 £25.00
10-49 £22.50
50-99 £21.25
100-999 £20.00


  • Modules
      • Introduction
      • Module 1: Your role and responsibilities
      • Module 2:  Working with your school's senior leadership team
      • Module 3:  Creating a safer culture
      • Module 4:  Preparing for safeguarding and child protection inspections
      • Conclusion
  • Duration
    • It should take you about 2–3 hours to complete the course. 
    • You will have access to the course for one year following purchase. You can take it as many times as you like in that time.
  • Certificate of achievement
    • This course is CPD certified, once you've successfully completed this course you can download a personalised certificate of achievement.
  • Why take your training with NSPCC

    • At the NSPCC, we work to keep children and young people safe from abuse and neglect every day.

    • As experts in safeguarding and child protection, we understand the issues organisations and people working with children can face. That’s why professionals trust us to provide the support, training and resources they need to help protect the children and young people they work with. 

    • Our highly-rated training courses are developed by experts. We work with a number of organisations, experienced consultants and subject matter experts in a range of sectors to develop courses that are clear, easy-to-use, up-to-date and in line with the latest statutory guidance, and tailored to your needs.

    • And as a charity, income generated from the sale of our training courses is reinvested back into the NSPCC to help protect children.

  • Technical requirements

    • Our masterclasses will work in most browsers, though we recommend that you use Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Safari (not Firefox). You will need to make sure your browser is up to date. 

       This masterclass can be accessed on PCs and Macs, as well as iPads or other tablet devices. Please note, we are unable to provide full technical support for tablet users. We do not support other mobile devices. If you choose to use a mobile device we would recommend watching the video in full screen mode.

      Videos clips hosted on the video sharing site Vimeo feature in the Masterclass. Video playback controls will vary and are dependent on the browser used to take the course and where the video is hosted. Your browser may automatically mute the video when it starts playing, but you should be able to unmute the video using the speaker icon on the bottom right of the player toolbar. 

      If you experience problems with the videos then we recommend you try using a different browser. You can also try:

      • updating your web browser 
      •  clearing your cache 
      •  accepting our cookies (essential cookies are required for the purposes of undertaking our elearning) 
      •  turning off private browsing 
      •  enabling JavaScript 
      •  permitting access to videos on Vimeo 
      •  setting the following web domain to 'trusted': https://mylearning.nspcc.org.uk 

      Call us on 0116 234 7246 or email learning@nspcc.org.uk if you have any questions.

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