Keeping Children Safe in Education and Government guidance requires Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL) to complete refresher training every two years. 

This course will revisit the roles and responsibilities of the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), new safeguarding guidance, initiatives, reflections and challenges of the role. It will provide participants with the opportunity to share safeguarding experiences with their DSL colleagues.

The course will also provide updates on safeguarding legislation and guidance - the current Keeping Children Safe in Education, and Working Together to Safeguard Children, that affect Safeguarding and Child Protection.

Pupils will: 

• be safer and have safeguarding needs met in an appropriate and timely manner 

Practitioners will: 

• understand the child protection responsibilities of the designated safeguarding lead person 

Settings will: 

• be safer organisations and compliant with government/statutory guidance
  
  

This course is designed for those acting as the designated safeguarding lead person for child protection, or their deputies, or those who have previously attended the full day Designated Safeguarding Lead Person initial training

Training will include:

• Looking at expectations of appropriate behaviour
• Self-help skills
• Strategies to support appropriate behaviour
• Speech and language difficulties that children with DS may have
• How to support and develop functional communication skills and strategies to support speech and language development

Pupils will:

• benefit from carefully planned support tailored to meet individual needs 

Staff will:

• have increased confidence to effectively implement reactive strategies to develop and support appropriate behaviour
• have increased confidence in supporting speech and language development when supporting children with Down Syndrome

SENCOs, Teachers, and Support Staff supporting children with Down Syndrome

This in person classroom based training builds on Level
1: Introduction to Safeguarding and Level 2:
Intermediate Safeguarding.
It covers the role and responsibilities of the lead and
deputy designated person, context, process and
procedures, thresholds for intervention, how to
respond to concerns and how to create a robust
safeguarding culture. It provides updates on most
recent legislation changes and incorporates local
themes from Greenwich Safeguarding Children’s
Partnership

Leaders & Managers
Lead & Deputy Designated Safeguarding Person
Nominated Individuals
Key Members of Governing Bodies

This course has been specially designed to develop both the competence and confidence of delegates to conduct Risk Assessments within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

It is highly interactive and stimulating with a mixture of key learning points, activities, video and group-based discussion to help ensure a valuable learning experience.

Employees will:

• understand your Health and Safety responsibilities within the Royal Borough of Greenwich
• understand the relationship between a hazard, risk and control measure
• understand the steps for a Risk Assessment.
• complete a Risk Assessment and apply risk control hierarchy in the control measures
• be familiar with internal procedures and the following documents: 
  • Responsibilities
  • General Risk Assessment procedure
  • General Risk Assessment guidance
  • Risk Assessment document
  • Example RBG Risk Assessments

Risk Assessment workshop:

• Review examples of risk
• Assessments
• Identify operational risks and complete a Risk Assessment

All employees who will undertake Risk Assessments.