Safeguarding Level 2
Safeguarding Level 2 in Early Years: Advanced Child Protection Practice, Leadership, and Legal Responsibilities
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Course Contents
Module 1: Core Revision – Foundations of Safeguarding Practice
This module refreshes essential safeguarding principles, legal duties, types of abuse, and the Four Rs to ensure a secure foundation for advanced safeguarding practice.
Module 2: The Role of the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)
This module explains the responsibilities of the DSL, including decision-making, referrals, record-keeping, leadership, and embedding safeguarding into daily practice.
Module 3: Safer Recruitment and Suitability of Adults
This module explores safer recruitment requirements, suitability checks, supervision of unvetted adults, and the childminder’s accountability for all adults in the setting.
Module 4: Contextual Safeguarding
This module develops understanding of risks beyond the home, including peer groups, online spaces, exploitation, and community influences, and how to identify patterns of harm.
Module 5: Professional Curiosity
This module builds skills in noticing, questioning, and following up concerns to uncover hidden risks and support early safeguarding intervention.
Module 6: Working in Partnership with Families
This module focuses on maintaining respectful, professional relationships with families while recognising vulnerability, managing difficult conversations, and prioritising the child’s welfare.
Module 7: Health and Safety as Safeguarding
This module explains how risk assessment, infection control, first aid, and daily safety checks are core safeguarding responsibilities under EYFS 2025.
Module 8: Managing Safeguarding and Electronic Devices in Home-Based Settings
This module sets out safe and lawful use of mobile phones, cameras, and digital devices to protect children’s privacy, imagery, and online safety.
Module 9: Managing Absence and Arrival Safely in Home-Based Settings
This module explains attendance monitoring, safe handovers, follow-up of unexplained absence, and how attendance links directly to safeguarding concerns.
Module 10: Trauma-Informed Safeguarding and Behaviour Management
This module develops trauma-informed approaches to behaviour, recognising distress as communication and responding in ways that promote safety and emotional regulation.
Module 11: Nutrition, Eating Safety, and Allergy Management
This module covers legal duties around food safety, choking prevention, allergy action planning, supervision during meals, and reporting food-related incidents.
Module 12: Local Procedures and Referrals
This module explains how to follow local safeguarding procedures, make referrals, escalate concerns, and act decisively when a child may be at risk.
Module 13: Understanding Thresholds of Intervention
This module builds confidence in applying threshold guidance to decide between Early Help, Child in Need, or Child Protection responses.
Module 14: Recording and Managing Safeguarding Concerns
This module develops accurate, lawful safeguarding documentation skills, including forms, policies, confidentiality, and maintaining chronologies.
Module 15: Professional Boundaries and Code of Conduct
This module strengthens understanding of professional boundaries, ethical behaviour, digital conduct, and how boundaries protect children, practitioners, and settings.
