ECC 2-021

Safeguarding & Child Protection: Policy to Practice

This workshop covers the basics of child protection that all children’s workers should be aware of, we focus on how to bring processes to life in order to keep children safe.

Price: $81 for ECC Members, $285 for non-members
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Safeguarding and child protection

This course is about bringing to life safeguarding and child protection within your work. It will give you greater confidence in what actions are best practice and how the law supports you to act in cases where you receive a disclosure of abuse, you are worried about neglect or a non-accidental injury. It will help you understand what safeguarding systems are, why they exist and provide you with confidence in responding to concerns about colleagues. You will also learn about potential gaps and barriers and how to avoid them in protecting children.

Presented By

Ruth Browning

Workshop Duration

Approximately 120 minutes

Who is this webinar for?

All children’s workers in ECE

What will you learn?


  • Identifying and applying the core components of a child safe organisation


  • What makes a good child protection policy and procedures and how these need to be embedded and brought to life


  • Gain confidence in using the Oranga Tamariki Act Information Sharing provisions


  • Gain confidence in managing concerns regarding a child in need of protection or regarding an employee or volunteer of organisation


  • The importance of a safeguarding code of conduct


  • Child and adult Indicators of child abuse and neglect


  • Have knowledge of how to work with concerns of neglect


  • Managing concerns for non-accidental injuries


  • Handling disclosures from very young children


  • Gaps and barriers that can exist and how to address them


  • What records you should keep and what should be in them


Certificate of completion provided
for your professional learning records
About the presenter

Ruth Browning

Ruth has a PgDip in Social and Community Work, a Masters in Social Research and has worked as a social worker for 23 years and has a wide range of experience working with children, youth and their families in both non-government and government organisations. This experience includes as a Social Worker and Family Group Conference Co-ordinator for Oranga Tamariki for several years.

Ruth is the senior consultant at Safeguarding Children where she facilitates trainings and advocates for safety for children and young people.

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