Key Info
1 Day Course
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Where and When
Delivered at a venue of your choice throughout the UK or by tutor led remote online delivery, contact us for availability.
Accredited Course
The course content are accredited by the Open College Network (OCN) Credit4Learning as a Level 3 course.
Course Overview
This training course is specifically designed for professionals who work in the children and young people services and need to have specific knowledge of how health and safety regulations relate to their work practices and procedures. This training course will consider how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in the children and young person support setting and how work practices are influenced by legislation.
This training course will clarity how health and safety should be monitored and maintained in the work setting to make people (including children and young people) aware of risks and hazards and encourage people to stay as safe as possible.
This training course will consider the risks associated with in-house and external activities, how to respond to accidents, incidents, emergencies and illness in different situations and will identify specific health, safety and welfare considerations for working within children and young people services including lone working, children missing from care and stranger or intruder occurrences.
This training course will also clarify the requirements in terms of effective recording and reporting from health, safety and wellbeing occurrences. This is a Level 3 accredited course.
Course Learning Outcomes
Below are the main topics covered in this course, expand each one to see the criteria.
- 1.1Summarise key points of the legislative framework for health, safety and risk management in residential childcare settings for children and young people
- 1.2Explain how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in the work setting
- 1.3Explain how health and safety is monitored and maintained in the work setting
- 1.4Explain how people in the work setting are made aware of risks and hazards and encouraged to work safely
- 2.1Analyse the value of risk and challenge for a child or young person’s development and enjoyment of life
- 2.2Explain why it is important to take an approach to risk that avoids both excessive risk-taking and excessive risk aversion
- 2.3Work with children or young people and others to establish shared agreement on how to manage risks *
- 2.4Support children or young people to manage risk in their own lives, taking into account their age, abilities, needs and stage of development *
- 2.5Describe potential conflicts between the rights and choices of children and young people and legal requirements for health and safety and well-being
- 3.1Understand ways to manage risks to health, safety and security in children and young people services
- 3.2Undertake health and safety risk assessments *
- 3.3Use the recommendations of risk assessments to manage hazards within the work settings and in off site visits*
- 3.4Explain how health and safety risk assessments are monitored and reviewed
- 4.1Explain the policies and procedures to follow in response to accidents, incidents, injuries, illness and other emergencies
- 4.2Describe the procedures for recording and reporting in response to accidents, incidents, injuries, illness and other emergencies
Accreditation
The course content are accredited by the Open College Network (OCN) Credit4Learning as a Level 3 course.
Certification
Each learner completing this course will receive an accredited Level 3 certificate of learning.
Additional Information
Training course duration
1 Day (please contact us if you require training which runs to a different timescale).Availability of this training course
This Health and Safety training course is available as in-house training at a venue of your own choice throughout the UK. Alternatively, also available remotely via a tutor led course over Zoom or Teams.Audience for this course
This Health and Safety training course is suitable for people working in any sector and need to gain knowledge about health and safety including a broad range of related topics and the responsibilities of employees and employers in ensuring the safety of all persons.QCF Units
This Health and Safety training course is designed to meet the standards outlined in the new Children's Homes (England) Regulations which were introduced on 1st April 2015 and can contribute to outcomes of QCF units including the National Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce and the National Diploma in Health and Social Care (Adults).Other courses you might be interested in
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