This information is brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Early Years team, on behalf of the Department for Education, for the attention of all Early Years settings.
'Safeguarding children and babies in early years settings' - is the new FREE training that has been written by the NSPCC and in collaboration with the DfE.
It was launched in July and is a great resource for EY practitioners to access authentic, research based safeguarding training.
Here's some details about the course.
The course comprises of 5 online modules.
- What is safeguarding?
- Operating in line with legislation and guidance.
- Recognising harm, abuse and neglect.
- Responding to and reporting harm.
- Creating a culture of safeguarding.
The link to take you to the training is embedded into the new Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework (Sept 2026) at the bottom of the Annex C: Criteria for effective safeguarding training. This takes you back to the main website page for the EYFS here:
https://www.gov.uk/.../early-years-foundation-stage...
Scroll down the page on the website and you will come to the text below.
DfE has developed online safeguarding training in collaboration with the NSPCC. The training is free for all early years educators. Log in to the early years safeguarding training.
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