Safeguarding Children

Product Description

This course is aimed at anyone who has a chosen a profession that involves taking care of children. Since children are still vulnerable physically, mentally, and emotionally, they need and they deserve special care from adults. As they are yet to be able to look after themselves, it is the adults’ responsibility to keep them safe, protect their rights, and provide them with their basic needs.

This course is centred on the rights of the children to a better environment and proper upbringing. This stage in life is very crucial because this is the time wherein the values and morals of a person is cultivated and shaped. What happens in this phase shall reflect one’s future personality and identity.

Even if most children were brought up in nurturing and loving environments, there are still aspects in a child’s life that are overlooked. This topic would be of help in solving any issues regarding any threats that may risk a child’s growth and development. This course aims to safeguard those children who need it the most.

This course covers the points to be considered in protecting the rights of children, identifying the signs of abuse and neglect of their rights, and the measures and actions to be taken when such issues rise up to the surface. This course is meant to help children and professionals that take care of children alike.

In this course, you will learn:

• Surrounding things that pose risk to children.
• Types of abuse children may suffer
• How to recognise the signs of abuse
• Safeguarding legislations put in place to mitigate the children abuse.

Once you learn how to recognise the signs of possible abuse, and learn the steps you should take when you recognise that a child might be a victim of abuse, you will become better in protecting children.