The Level 2 Award is suitable for those intending to work in unsupervised roles that support children and young people’s learning and development and it helps prepare learners to be able to work in a school setting or nursery setting or youth centre.

This course is part time, self-paced, distance learning, blended delivery of assessment, observation and tutorial. We also provide classroom face to face learning.

The Children’s Act 2004 places duties on a range of organisations to ensure they have regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This includes the need for appropriate safeguarding training, as employers are responsible for ensuring staff are competent to carry out their responsibilities towards safeguarding of children and young people. This qualification would meet this requirement.

The qualification is suitable for learners working, or wishing to work, with children and young people supporting Child Protection. This includes those in voluntary or unpaid positions. Such positions would be a Teaching Assistant, Teacher, Nursery Assistant, Care Worker etc. The qualification covers how to safeguard and protect children, young people and practitioners in the workplace as well as how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused. Child protection is paramount in all environments working with children.

The course consists of one unit. The contents are outlined below:

• Understand how to safeguard and protect children, young people and practitioners in the workplace
• Know how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused.

There are no prerequisites for this qualification.

It is recommended learners have a level 1 in literacy and numeracy before registering onto the qualification.

Learners must also possess a good understanding of English.

This qualification is assessed by open-response workbook. This assessment model requires learners to provide a short response to prescribed questions within a workbook set by TQUK and The Learning College. Successful learners will have to demonstrate knowledge and understanding across the qualification syllabus.

This course applies to all industries and roles where children may be involved as it is crucial to ensure that younger and more vulnerable people are protected.

Teaching Assistant, Child Care, Safeguarding

Every candidate matters, we care about our learners and we assign a personal, qualified tutor/assessor to every candidate to give you a full support and guidance, face to face meeting, respond to all questions you may have, mark your assignments, give you constructive feedback to enable you to monitor /measure your own progress, get ready for your examination and pass your qualification successfully. Upon enrolment you will have access to many learning materials such as videos, presentations, hand-outs, lessons, learning resources, assignments electronic and workbooks. We are dedicated to respond to all your queries in a very short of time. We assure you that we provide a high rate customer services and quality learning experience.