Build safeguarding confidence with clear, practical guidance on recognising physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse in early years, with step-by-step actions to protect children and meet EYFS duties.
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Module 1 – Safeguarding Foundations (EYFS Section 3)Understand your safeguarding responsibilities, information-sharing duties, attendance checks, and how to act early to protect children.
Module 2 – The Early Years Practitioner’s Safeguarding Role
Learn how to stay professionally curious, record concerns accurately, and escalate same-day through your Designated Safeguarding Lead.
Module 3 – Know What’s Happening in Children’s Lives
Develop skills to notice small changes, patterns, and contextual risks through daily contact, supervision, and partnership with parents.
Module 4 – Know the Signs to Recognise Abuse and Neglect
Identify clusters and patterns of safeguarding indicators and understand how to respond confidently without needing proof.
Module 5 – Physical Abuse: In-Depth
Recognise high-risk injury patterns, non-mobile baby bruising, burns, bites, and grips, and follow the urgent referral pathway.
Module 6 – Emotional Abuse: In-Depth
Understand how emotional abuse presents over time, including the impact of control, rejection, and SEND-related masking of harm.
Module 7 – Neglect: In-Depth
Learn how to spot cumulative neglect, distinguish poverty from neglect, and escalate when care needs remain unmet.
Module 8 – Sexual Abuse: In-Depth (Under Fives)
Identify contact and non-contact sexual abuse indicators, grooming behaviours, and know how to respond safely the same day.
