NSPCC safeguarding and child protection training courses

Increase your confidence in identifying and responding to possible signs of child abuse and neglect with our introductory online, live virtual and face-to-face training courses.

Learn how to manage safeguarding at scale, create effective plans and prepare for inspections in this course for senior leaders. Two day in-person or virtual training course.

Confidently deliver inclusive sex and relationships education with our two free online courses for secondary school teachers and leaders.

Are you aware of how children use the internet? Take our e-safety training to help you keep the children and young people you work with safe online.

Improve your awareness and understanding of child protection with our elearning course for anyone working in education.

Safely recruit the right staff and volunteers to ensure they are safe to work with children and young people in the education sector with our face-to-face and virtual training.

Learn how to apply anti-racist and anti-discriminatory practice and strength-based approaches in safeguarding and child protection.

Take our online course to protect beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and others who come into contact with your organisation.

Take our online safeguarding training to give you a clear understanding of your child protection responsibilities in your school.

Get more training for less with our elearning packages for primary and secondary schools. Contains 12 hours of CPD-certified training to cover the child protection knowledge you need. 

Refresh and update your safeguarding supervision knowledge with this face-to-face course. Also available as a virtual course.

New to a safeguarding supervisory role? This course will improve your supervision skills, so you can protect children and support staff with safeguarding concerns.

Take our child protection and safeguarding training for tutors working with children online and face-to-face.

Learn what county lines is, how to recognise the signs and respond to concerns in this 3-hour online course.

New to a designated child protection role? Attend our face-to-face training course and gain the skills you need to protect the children you work with. Also available as live virtual training.

Courses designed to provide training for Designated safeguarding lead in schools and colleges based in England. New to role DSLs provides training for those newly appointed and our Advanced course continues training for experienced, multi-site DSLs.

Are you a designated safeguarding lead at a leisure facility or sports organisation? Our specialist trainers will help you to better understand and perform your role. 

Familiarise yourself with the designated safeguarding officer (DSO) role or build on your existing knowledge and skills with our core and advanced training courses. Available as face-to-face or virtual.

New to a designated safeguarding role? Take our virtual training course and gain the skills you need to protect the children you work with.

Gain the knowledge and skills required to hold the designated safeguarding person role in Wales. Learn from our expert trainers how to receive and respond to reported child protection concerns.

Attend our online webinar series made in partnership with Vodafone and learn about key topics such as online grooming, scams and the viewing of harmful content.

Our elearning courses will help you manage, assess and respond to sexual harassment and abuse in primary and secondary schools.

Feel confident in understanding, recognising, responding to and preventing child sexual abuse in the family environment. 

Learn how to strategically lead safeguarding and shape the culture in your organisation with our on-demand training video.

Find out how you can apply the lessons from case reviews and improve your practice to help protect children and young people. 

Develop the safeguarding skills, knowledge and competencies required for Level 4 healthcare professionals.

Advanced course on how to effectively manage allegations of abuse against staff and volunteers in England or Scotland. Live virtual training is also available.

On-demand sessions to help you prepare for the new proposed statutory mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse requirements in England.

Learn when mental health issues become safeguarding concerns and how to support the children and young people you work with. 

If you work with babies and their parents and carers, this course will help you to understand what NAHI is, identify risk factors within families, and put support in place to help parents and carers keep their baby safe.

Watch our experts explain the core safeguarding principles you need to know to protect babies, children and young people.

Our online course will help you to understand your safeguarding responsibilities and learn how to act appropriately and confidently to protect the young people you work with.

A safeguarding awareness course helping workers who enter people’s homes recognise the signs of possible abuse and neglect.

Find out how you can better identify safeguarding concerns and communicate effectively when working with pupils who are disabled and have additional needs.

Understand your safeguarding responsibilities as a board member for a sport or leisure organisation with our specialist training.

Learn what you need to do to keep babies, infants and young children safe with our on-demand training video.

Have regular contact with children through sport or physical activity? This course will help you recognise, report and record concerns as well as understand the basics of safeguarding.

Learn what how to keep young apprentices and workers safe at work in this 1-hour on-demand training.

Take a look at our online training package for anyone who works in the charity, voluntary or community sectors in the UK. 

Stay up to date and comply with annual safeguarding training requirements with this online course for education settings.

Build on your existing knowledge and gain confidence in safeguarding children and young people with our 1.5-hour refresher course.

Watch our experts explain the updates to safeguarding guidance and legislation in 2025 and what they mean for anyone working in education.

Training to safely recruit the right staff and volunteers to ensure they are safe to work with children and young people. Available as virtual training.

Learn how to recognise the signs of misogyny, sexism and gender-based hate so you can confidently safeguard children and young people.

Take our interactive online course to give you the knowledge on how to protect children during rehearsals and productions.

Want to deliver child protection training? Gain the skills to deliver, design and evaluate safeguarding training with our advanced training with optional accreditation. 

Explore the science behind child brain development through practical exercises, case studies, examples and more.

Our training course will help teams understand what child sexual abuse is and how to respond.

Our training package helps teams to understand what harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) is, how it happens and increase confidence in identifying and responding to incidents.