This course is designed for staff who are responsible for responding to safeguarding concerns involving adults working with children and need to refresher their existing qualifications.

All organisations that work with or support children must be able to act swiftly and appropriately when concerns or allegations are raised. Staff need to feel confident in their decision making, understand when to refer concerns to external authorities, and ensure that their responses are defensible, proportionate and in line with statutory guidance.

Our course, supported by an interactive workbook to complete.  This workbook is designed to support your learning throughout the Introduction to Managing Allegations course. It includes reflective questions aligned with the course content to help you think critically about what you’ve learned and how you can apply it within your role.

This course costs £19.99 per person.

This course takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

The learning objectives for this course are:

• Identify the reasoning behind why we need to make good quality decisions

• Understand what makes a decision justifiable

• Improve confidence in decision making

• Understand how to respond to initial complaints

• Know when to refer a matter to authorities

• Explain what evidence is

• Understand how witnesses are identified

• Describe best practice for interviewing

• Understand how police and social services enquiries link into your investigation