By the end of the course you will:

- Be clear of your Safeguarding role and responsibilities as a Manager/Team Leader

- Understand the importance of supervision to support staff to take action and to ensure a safeguarding culture exists

- Be able to explain how lessons from Serious Case Reviews inform practice

- Understand the local safeguarding structure, thresholds and Ofsted requirements

- Be confident in how to respond to a concern and the need for effective record keeping and multi-agency communication

- Understand safer recruitment and safer working practices and have considered policy and practice development