Safeguarding Training
Training That Builds Safer Communities
Handsam’s safeguarding training empowers all school staff to protect children and young people with confidence. Covering key responsibilities, procedures, and best practice, our expert-led courses ensure a safe, supportive environment—building awareness, promoting vigilance, and strengthening whole-school safeguarding culture.
Child on Child Abuse
Delivery method: eTraining
​Course Duration: 15-20 minutes
​Number of delegates: 1+
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​About this course: This course is relevant for all staff as everyone who works in any kind of educational establishment needs to know crucial information about Peer-on-Peer abuse. ​
Key topics covered:
- What is peer-on-peer abuse?
- Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)
- Sexual harassment and sexual violence
- Online abuse
- Recognising the signs of peer-on-peer abuse
- Reporting abuse
- Reacting to a disclosure
Honour Based Violence and FGM
Delivery method: eTraining
Course duration: 10-12 minutes
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: This module is relevant for all staff as everyone who works in any kind of educational establishment needs to know crucial information about Honour Violence and FGM.
Key topics covered:
- The issues and risks of Honour-based violence
- Forced Marriage
- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
- Breast Ironing
- What to look out for
KCSIE Confirmation of Reading for all Governors
Delivery method: eTraining
Course duration: Reading time plus 1 minute to confirm
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: This course allows senior leaders to evidence that all governors have completed the formal duty of reading parts One and Two of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Key topics covered:
- This course simply allows your governors to download Parts 1 and 2 of ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) and answer one simple question to confirm they have read it, as required by the Department for Education.
Online Safety
Delivery method: eTraining​
Course duration: 10-12 minutes
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: This course is relevant for all staff as everyone who works in any kind of educational establishment needs to know crucial information about students' online safety.
Key topics covered:
- The issues and risks of online technology
- What must the school do the ensure online safety
- What KCSIE says about online safety
- Online sexual harassment
- Sexually explicit images
- Online radicalisation and extremism
- INCELs
- Remote learning
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Safer Recruitment
Delivery method: eTraining
Course duration: 35 minutes
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: Safer recruitment is a set of principles and practices that an organisation or employer should apply to ensure that their employees and volunteers are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.
Key topics covered:
- What safer recruitment is
- Who is at risk of abuse
- What the law says about safer recruitment
- The recruitment process, including job advertisements and relevant application forms
- Processes for shortlisted candidates, including self-disclosure forms, conducting online searches and obtaining references
- The interview process
- Vetting checks, including DBS checks
- Processes for other staff, such as supply staff, contractors and trainees
- Processes for volunteers, visitors and governors
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace:What Staff Need to Know
Delivery method: eTraining
Course duration: 25 minutes
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: This course is for all staff as everyone needs to know about the new legal requirement regarding creating a zero-tolerance workplace relating to sexual harassment.
Key topics covered:​
- Employer Responsibilities Under the Worker Protection Act (2024)
- The definition of Sexual Harassment
- Examine impact of Sexual Harassment
- Explain the reasonable steps employers must take
- How a school should deal with Sexual Harassment allegations
- The barriers to reporting;
- How staff can raise a grievance
- The difference between ‘banter’ and harassment.
Forms of Abuse
Delivery method: eTraining​​
Course duration: 15-20 minutes​
Number of delegates: 1+
​About this course: This course is relevant for all staff as everyone who works in any kind of educational establishment needs to know crucial information about the various different forms which abuse can take.
Key topics covered:
- Physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect
- Domestic abuse, homelessness and gang crime
- Recognising the signs
- Responding to abuse
- Whistleblowing
- Children Missing from Education
KCSIE Confirmation of Reading for all Staff
Delivery method: eTraining
Course duration: Reading time plus 1 minute to confirm
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: This course allows managers to evidence that all staff have completed the formal duty of reading Part One or, where relevant, Annex A of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).
Key topics covered:
- This course simply allows all staff to download Part 1 and/or Annex A of ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (KCSIE) and answer one simple question to confirm they have read it, as required by the Department for Education.
Managing and Administering Medicines
Delivery method: eTraining
Course duration: 50-55 minutes
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: Medical conditions are increasing amongst the UK’s school-age children. This course takes a look at the duties schools have to deliver medical support for a wide range of conditions such as asthma, anaphylaxis, diabetes and epilepsy, discusses policies and procedures and takes you on a guided tour around a high quality medical facility, touching on mandatory elements of your provision.
Key topics covered:
- The legal parameters of administering medicines in schools
- The roles and responsibilities which impact medical management
- The common medical conditions which you will have to manage and how to meet specific medical needs
- The purpose of managing and administering medicines effectively, including aspects such as inclusion and equality
- Expected standards of training for staff and your medical facilities on your site
- The role of Individual Healthcare Plans in systems of care​​
Safeguarding Children
Delivery method: eTraining
Course duration: 70-75 minutes
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: This course is suitable for all staff as everyone needs to know about safeguarding children, what the law says you must know and do, and what you must do if you have a concern about any student you come into contact with through your work or volunteering activities.
Key topics covered:
- Safeguarding roles and responsibilities
- Structures for managing safeguarding, policies and delivery
- Safer recruitment practice
- Forms of abuse, recognising and responding to abuse
- Harassment and child-on-child abuse
- Handling allegations of abuse
- Online safety
- The Prevent duty
- Honour violence, female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage
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Sexual Harassment Duties for Managers and Employers under the 2024 Worker Protection Act
Delivery method: eTraining
Course duration: 40 minutes
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: This course is aimed at employers, senior leaders and managers in head office teams, who need to understand their duties under the 2024 Worker Protection Act regarding creating a zero- tolerance workplace regarding sexual harassment.
​Key topics covered:
- Employer Responsibilities Under the Worker Protection Act (2024)
- The definition of Sexual Harassment;
- The impact of Sexual Harassment;
- The reasonable steps employers must take;
- How a School should deal with sexual harassment allegations
- The barriers to reporting;
- How staff should be supported to raise a grievance;
- Who is liable in cases of sexual harassment;
- What to allow someone to do if they are unhappy with the workplace’s policy; and
- The difference between 'banter' and harassment.
The Prevent Duty
Delivery method: eTraining
Course duration: 12 minutes
Number of delegates: 1+
About this course: This course is suitable for all staff. as everyone needs to understand what the law says you must know and do regarding the Prevent Duty. And what you must do if you have a concern about any student you come into contact with through your work or volunteering activities becoming radicalised or drawn towards extremism.
Key topics covered:
- What is the Prevent duty?
- What is radicalisation?
- Indicators of radicalisation
- Online threats
- Examples of extremism in young people
- Things to look out for
- Children missing in education
- British values
"Handsam has significantly improved our ability to monitor and manage compliance in a consistent and structured way across the Trust, supporting both operational safety and strategic oversight."
Brian - Trust Health and Safety Manager