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Safeguarding children who are disabled and have additional needs

Course Description

An introductory course for education staff who work with children and young people who are disabled and have additional needs.

Do you need to better identify safeguarding concerns when working with children and young people in your school? It’s not always easy to spot the signs of abuse. In some cases, adults may mistake the indicators of abuse as signs of a child or young person’s disability.

Created by experts in child protection, 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 safer culture in your school or college.

By the end of the course you’ll be able to:

  • identify safeguarding concerns
  • understand why children who have additional needs can be more vulnerable to abuse
  • acknowledge that children who have additional needs can be abused and know how to act on any concerns
  • create a safer culture
  • communicate creatively with children and young people
  • empower children and young people to express their views, needs and opinions
  • be responsive to children and young people’s views, needs and opinions
  • work with parents and other agencies.
elearning £30.00
Quantity Price per person
1-9 £30.00
10-49 £27.00
50-99 £25.50
100-999 £24.00


  • Modules
      • Introduction
      • Module 1: Safer culture
      • Module 2: Roles and responsibilities
      • 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

    • 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 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 

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

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