E-Learning offered by other organisations
Awareness of Forced Marriage
The Virtual College offer a free e-learning course on Awareness of Forced Marriage. It’s estimated that approximately 8,000 to 10,000 forced marriages of British citizens take place every year, often resulting in devastating long term consequences for the victims.
This online course has been developed with the Forced Marriage Unit of the Foreign Office and aims to raise awareness, challenge perceptions and inform you of the correct actions to take should you suspect someone is at risk.
Click here to access e-learning on Awareness of Forced Marriage
E-Learning for Healthcare: e-learning programmes
e-learning for Healthcare offer a range of free e-learning modules aimed at professionals in the Health and Social Care sector. Topics include:
- Safeguarding Adults
- Mental Capacity Act & Adult Safeguarding
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLs)
- Compassion in Practice
- Domestic Violence & Abuse
Click here to register on the E-Learning for Healthcare website
Homelessness and Safeguarding Webinars
King’s College London are offering a series of webinars on Homelessness and Safeguarding. The webinars focus on different aspects of homelessness and are open to all.
They are co-ordinated by Jess Harris, Research Fellow at the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, who works within the Homelessness Research Programme at the Unit.
Click here to access the webinars on Homelessness and Safeguarding
Modern Slavery E-Learning
The Open-University is offering a free L1 (Introductory) course on Modern Slavery. The course aims to develop:
- an understanding of the international system of human rights protection in relation to modern slavery
- an appreciation of the influence of International Human Rights Law on the development of the domestic system of human rights protection.
National Trading Standards (NTS) Scams Team Practitioner E-Learning
Our Practitioner E-Learning is designed to assist professionals and practitioners who will be interacting with victims of scams.
Accessing our e-learning will give you:
• An understanding of the scale of the problem of scams
• Insights into the behaviour of the criminals behind scams
• Practical advice on how best to support a victim of scams
• An understanding of the legislation that can be used to support scam victims and to prosecute the criminals behind scams.
Course Content:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Chapter One – The Scale of the Problem
Chapter 3: Criminal Behaviour
Chapter 4: Legislative Framework
Chapter 5: Supporting Victims
At the end of the e-learning you will be assessed on what you have learnt and be is sued with a certificate.
Click here to access the NTS Scams Team practitioner e-learning
Prevent and Channel E-Learning
Prevent sits alongside long-established safeguarding duties on professionals to protect people from a range of other harms such as substance abuse, involvement in gangs and physical and sexual exploitation.
Prevent is one part of the government’s overall counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST. The aim of Prevent is to:
- tackle the ideological causes of terrorism
- intervene early to support people susceptible to radicalisation
- enable people who have already engaged in terrorism to disengage and rehabilitate