Safeguarding

Working closely with all children’s services across Cambridgeshire in a variety of forms, the Early Years Safeguarding Team promotes best practice in early years settings, including holiday activities and food programmes, and childminders. We ensure practitioners are kept up to date with and working within current safeguarding legislation and guidance.

A robust programme of training is delivered across the academic year to allow practitioners to be skilled in the safeguarding of the children and families they care for. Bespoke options are available to train a full team and maintain a fully compliant and skilled collection of staff poised to identify concerns.

We play a key role in representing early years settings at a range of multi-agency meetings and support all aspects of safeguarding in early years.

CambsEYC offers a wide range of training for early years and childcare providers to ensure they can meet the safeguarding requirements of both the EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers* and the Childcare Register Requirements.

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All training includes relevant and up-to-date information about local policy and procedure to ensure a full knowledge of safeguarding duties is gained by settings.

For details about Basic Child Protection Training, Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) for Early Years and Childcare, and other courses, please refer to the Professional Development Programme.

CPD for DSL

There is a range of courses available for professional development opportunities relating to safeguarding available to DSLs:

• Domestic Abuse Risk Assessments and Safety Planning.
• Professional Curiosity and Difficult Conversations.
• Record Keeping.

Courses available to the wider management team:

• Online Safety.
• Safer Recruitment Training.
• Substance Misuse.
• The Roles and Responsibilities of the Registered Provider.
• Virtual Reality Trauma Informed Training.

Further details, including booking information, can be found on the Professional Development Programme.

Child Protection Information Networks (CPINs)

CambsEYC Safeguarding Advisers also run termly CPINs for Designated Safeguarding Leads to attend to gather relevant local and national updates.