Course description
Gain the confidence you need to effectively identify mental health issues that may become safeguarding concerns and learn how to support and protect the children and young people you work with.
Schools play an important role in promoting and supporting positive mental health and emotional wellbeing. This online CPD certified training course focuses on the safeguarding and child protection concerns that can occur as a result of a child or young person struggling with their mental health.
As the UK’s experts on safeguarding, this elearning course will help you to identify safeguarding concerns, communicate effectively with children and young people to help keep them safe and create a safe culture in your school or college.
This course contains teaching pages, videos, example scenarios, reflective opportunities and quizzes to help consolidate your learning.
By the end of the course you will understand:
- your safeguarding and child protection responsibilities relating to mental health and emotional wellbeing
- how to identify and report concerns that might indicate mental health issues
- how negative experiences such as abuse and neglect can have an adverse impact on children's mental health and may lead to safeguarding and child protection issues
- the importance of empowering children and young people and listening to their views, needs and opinions
- how to discuss concerns and support children and young people with their emotional wellbeing
- how best to work with parents, carers and other agencies.
Technical requirements
Our online courses will work in most web browsers, although we recommend that you use Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Safari. We recommend installing the latest version of your web browser before beginning your course.
Our courses are compatible with most tablet devices, however the NSPCC does not provide full technical support for tablet users. We do not support other mobile devices.
Videos clips hosted on the video sharing site Vimeo feature in some of our courses. Video playback controls will vary and are dependent on the browser used to take the course and where the video is hosted. If you experience problems with the videos then we recommend you try taking the course in a different browser.
Having trouble? 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
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.
