Group C Safeguarding Children (09/04/2025)
Course Details
Face to Face at Mamhilad Park, Pontypool
Gwent Safeguarding
Children
About Group C Learning
The National Safeguarding Training, Learning and Development Standards launched in Wales in 2022. The aim of the standards is to support practitioners to understand their role and responsibilities in relation to safeguarding, relevant to the staff group they are in.
This Gwent Safeguarding Course is for practitioners requiring the generic 8 hrs Group C Safeguarding Children learning. Group C practitioners are those who have direct responsibility for safeguarding people:
- who have an assessing role that’s linked to the safeguarding process and / or
- who are operating at a level where they can give advice about safeguarding to those in group A and group B and / or
- in a setting they work in or manage and / or
- with whom they spend a lot of time unsupervised and there may be safeguarding concerns.
This course is suitable for Designated Safeguarding Person/s (DSP’s) and those who take a more prominent role in safeguarding decisions within their own setting, including those with an active role in participating in multi-agency safeguarding and child protection meetings.
Group C practitioners could potentially contribute to or are fully engaged in assessing, planning, intervening, and reviewing the needs of individuals where there are safeguarding concerns.
NB: This is generic group C safeguarding learning that all group C children practitioners should complete. Additional learning and development activity relevant to a practitioners’ specific role and responsibilities will also be required following completion of generic Group C training. This will usually be agency/role specific and form part of practitioners CPD.
Key Learning Themes? (full learning outcomes available on request)
- Legislation
- Working in Ways that Safeguard CYP
- Factors, situations, actions that may contribute to abuse, harm or neglect
- Know how, when and to whom to report different types of abuse, neglect and harm
- Taking part in multi-agency safeguarding processes
- Professional Accountability
- National Group C Standards specific to CYP
Please note: Completion of a reflective workbook is mandatory following accessing the online module which forms Part 1 of this course. Failure to complete the reflective exercises in Part 1 mean participants may struggle to fully participate in the discussions that form part of the Facilitated Session, as well as apply the intended learning moving forward.
Group B training will not be covered on the Group C session. Depending on your previous safeguarding training, experience working directly with safeguarding matters, you may wish to consider attending the Group B training prior to attending the Group C training, as Group B aspects are not covered in Group C course, which is aimed at practitioners who are regularly involved in safeguarding and/ or those who are supervising and advising less experienced staff, in relation to safeguarding concerns