It is vital that your staff and volunteers have some form of safeguarding training, especially if they are going to have any contact with children or adults at risk of abuse.
As part of Southwark’s multi-agency partnership on safeguarding, the Council make a number of training courses available to community and voluntary groups for free, via their My Learning Source platform
What is My Learning Source?
My Learning Source is the main e-learning platform used by Southwark Council. It’s mostly for their employees, but it plays a crucial role in the multi-agency safeguarding partnership, as it is here that you can take part in free e-learning, and book yourself onto both online and in-person safeguarding courses.
What is available?
There is a wide range of safeguarding courses available, taking place at different times throughout the year. The full schedule is usually announced early in the calendar year, and Community Southwark will circulate this when it becomes available.
Courses are mostly held online, with an increasing number in-person. They can range from half to several days, and are usually held in small groups with a mixture of charity and statutory attendees.
Courses have previously covered the topics below. Many of these are available as on-demand e-learning, and the dates below show the next available ‘live’ course, which may be delivered online or in-person.
Please note you will need to be logged in to My Learning Source to follow the links.
On demand e-learning:
- Adolescents at Risk
- Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness – e-learning
- Adults Safeguarding – Level 1 – e-learning
- Adults Safeguarding – Level 2 – e-learning
- Care Act 2014: Update
- Child Sexual Exploitation – e-learning
- Children with Complex Health Needs – e-learning
- County Lines – e-learning
- Cuckooing Awareness – e-learning
- Dignity and Respect – e-learning
- Domestic Abuse Awareness – e-learning
- Domestic Abuse and its Impact on Families
- Drug and Alcohol Awareness – e-learning
- Female Genital Mutilation e-learning
- Hate and Mate Crime – e-learning
- Knife Crime and Knife Carrying – e-learning
- Personal Budgets and Direct Payments: Legal Overview
- Preventing Radicalisation – e-learning
- Safeguarding and Unpaid Carers
- Safeguarding Children – Level 1 – e-learning
- Safeguarding Children – Level 2 – e-learning
- Safeguarding Children with Physical or Learning Disabilities
- Safeguarding Interface with Domestic Abuse
- Self Harm Awareness – e-learning
- Strengths Based Practice
Live sessions:
- Adolescents at Risk
- 19/09/2024
- Adults Safeguarding – Level 3
- 15/07/2024
- 11/10/2024
- 31/01/2025
- 07/03/2025
- 24/03/2024
- 27/03/2025
- Allegations Management: The Role of the LADO and the LADO Referral Process
- No upcoming dates
- Cuckooing
- 20/11/2024
- 28/05/2025
- Cuckooing Awareness
- No upcoming dates
- Culturally Competent Practice
- 20/06/2024
- 23/10/2024
- Domestic Abuse and its Impacts on Families
- 16/07/2024
- 13/02/2025
- Emotional Abuse & Neglect
- 16-17/10/2024
- Extreme Right-Wing training: Vulnerable Support Champions
- No upcoming dates
- Impact of Parental Substance Misuse on Young People
- 14/11/2024
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
- No upcoming dates
- Race, Culture and Faith Belief Systems in Safeguarding Children – Level 3
- 11/09/2024
- Reducing Parental Conflict Awareness
- No upcoming dates
- Safeguarding Children – Level 3
- 27/06/2024
- 10/09/2024
- 28/11/2024
- 22/01/2025
- Safeguarding Children with Learning or Physical Disabilities
- 04/10/2024
- 04/02/2025
- Substance Misuse
- 30-31/07/2024
- 10-11/03/2025
- Working with Challenging Families
- 24/09/2024
- 26/02/2025
Introduction to Safeguarding Training
My Learning Source includes a number of e-learning modules that can be accessed at any time.
This includes a basic introduction to Safeguarding, entitled Safeguarding Children and Adults at Risk.
This is a great starting point for any new staff or volunteers.
Setting up an account
It’s completely free to register an account, but there are two important steps:
1) Register your organisation with My Learning Source
2) Create a new user account, linked to that approved organisation
The first step can take some time, as it needs to be done manually, and you will not be able to access the platform and sign up for any training without it.
They say it can take up to 72 hours at the moment, so if you are interested in taking part in training we recomennd you register your organisation as soon as possible.
Checking if your organisation is registered
You can find a list of all currently registered organisations when you create a new user account. Simply visit the sign up page and look for the “Choose Organisation” button on the form.
This will present you with a list of options. Use the ‘Searh/Submit’ tab to see if your organisation is already on the list (as shown below).
Booking to attend a course
It can be tricky to find the right section on the My Learning Source platform!
If you are logged into My Learning Source you can use the ‘search’ box on the homepage. This will take you to the right page.
From there, you will need to click continue to confirm you are using ‘self enrolment’ and/or click the ‘ENROL’ button on at the top of the page, underneath the course title.
This will then show you the course dates towards the bottom of the page, and you can pick your date and click through to sign up. You will need to tick one more box to accept T&Cs – you do not need to enter any discount codes or any other information.
If you encounter any problems booking a course please let us know, as we are working with the Council to make this process easier for everyone.
Other sources of training
If you have commissioned or attended any other safeguarding training, and have found it helpful, please let us know.
We are building a database of safeguarding trainers for VCS groups in the borough, and are looking for recommendations. Please email us with your suggestions – info@communitysouthwark.org.
