8.9 Intermediate-level training
Staff or volunteers with responsibilities for – or significant contact with – children and other vulnerable groups need to understand more about safeguarding, to help them consider the risks associated with their role or area of work and how to reduce them.
Coaches, medics, physios, officials, and others whose role involves responsibility for children and other vulnerable groups, need to be clear about the expectations of them and how to identify concerns in their work environment. This also applies to other roles – for example, residential or event staff who may be responsible for children who are away from home.
Intermediate-level training normally has certain core content. Can you think what this would be?
Intermediate-level safeguarding course
a.
What is safeguarding?
b.
How to undertake a safeguarding investigation.
c.
Safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility.
d.
The main types of abuse, including indicators of abuse.
e.
What is peer bullying?
f.
Poor practice by adults in sport.
g.
Risk assessing information from police or criminal records checks.
h.
What to do if there are concerns about a child and how to respond to a
i.
How to help make sport a safe, happy, and positive environment for everyone.
j.
Signposts for further information and support.
k.
How to provide direct counselling for abused children or young women.
The correct answers are a, c, d, e, f, h, i and j.
Comment
This content is typical of many intermediate-level safeguarding courses. However, the three subject areas we identified are only appropriate for staff with specific safeguarding roles. These subjects would be included in role or context-specific training.
Now let’s move on to think about ‘role or context-specific’ training.
8.8 Training design and development
