Induction and child protection
Diagnostic assessment, the learning plan, and the full range of abuse, signs, indicators and risk factors.
Education & Childcare
Designated Safeguarding Officer Level 2 Award
Safeguarding leadership that is taught, practised and observed in your own setting, so the role is held by someone trained to hold it. NCFE CACHE Early Years Award, QN 610/4504/4.
- Level
- Level 2 Award
- Duration
- 8 taught sessions
- Units
- 3 mandatory, 26 criteria
- Hours
- 60 GLH, 75 total
- Study mode
- Delivered in your setting
- Assessment
- Portfolio, no exam
- Overview
Eight taught sessions delivered in your setting, with two assessor observation visits arranged around your routine. Three mandatory units sit behind the sessions: understanding safeguarding for child protection, safeguarding and welfare requirements for best practice, and following the requirements in practice.
- How it is delivered
Delivered in your setting and grounded in daily practice, with a learner handbook for every session, an assessment workbook for each unit, guided reading signposted between sessions and written feedback within ten working days.
- How it is assessed
One component only, an internally assessed portfolio, quality assured by Alphabet Training and NCFE. Graded achieved or not yet achieved, no examination. Five criteria are observed in your setting across two visits. Getting started is simple: talk it through, confirm eligibility, agree dates and begin.
- What we ask of you
Release for eight sessions and two short visits, access to your safeguarding policy, and time alongside colleagues and families.
- What Next?
Read the full course guide, then talk to our team about dates.
Course content
Eight taught sessions
Partnership working
The professionals and agencies involved locally and why child centred partnership secures better outcomes.
The statutory requirements
EYFS, Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent and Working Together, applied indoors, outdoors, offsite and to medication.
Policy and protocol
Your safeguarding policy read properly, the protocol for visitors, and professional supervision.
Welfare and wellbeing
Food and drink for individual needs, the key person role, ratios, qualification levels and safer recruitment.
The designated safeguarding officer
The responsibilities in full, including challenging weak practice, cascading updates and supporting colleagues.
Policy and procedures in practice
Reviewing policy collaboratively, role modelling, records and reporting. The first observation visit sits here.
Advocacy and completion
Safe and inclusive environments, advocating for a child, second observation, portfolio review and careers guidance.
Who it is for
Practitioners who hold the designated safeguarding officer role, deputise for it, or are being prepared to take it on. Learners must be 16 or over and working with children from birth to five throughout. No prior qualifications are required.
What your setting gets back
Concerns acted on. Knows the whole range of abuse and risk, what to do next and who to tell.
Capacity beside the lead. Prepares, records, gathers and follows up, freeing the lead for key decisions.
Evidence for inspection. A completed portfolio and observation records that show arrangements are real.
A policy people use. Read, reviewed, improved and explained to every new starter.
Records that hold up. Reporting and record keeping that would stand scrutiny from an inspector.
A reason to stay. Specialist training staff cannot get elsewhere, with a visible route into the role.
Where it leads
Employment as a designated safeguarding officer, progression to safeguarding trainer, early years educator or teaching and learning practitioner, and further study in safeguarding or early years education.
Want to talk it through, or book places for your team?
Enquire now 01254 679998