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eLearning: Early Years Safeguarding Practitioner Course

Industry leading course you can do online

Early Years Safeguarding Practitioner

At Safeguarding Support, we recognise the challenges of stretched resources, busy teams, and heavy workloads. Now more than ever, there is a growing need to provide our clients with flexible, engaging, and effective training solutions.

Our eLearning courses are easy to access, highly flexible and can be completed on a desktop, laptop, tablet, or any mobile device, anytime and anywhere. Learners can complete the course at their own pace, at their convenience.

Our self-paced Early Years Safeguarding Practitioner online course is designed for individuals  seeking high-quality safeguarding training with the flexibility to learn at their own convenience.

The course includes a final quiz to provide evidence of understanding and compliance.

eLearning Early Years Safeguarding Practitioner

Early Years Safeguarding Practitioner training for all practitioners and support staff in early years settings

Complete online at your own pace (self-paced)

Course description

This self-paced online course provides essential knowledge and understanding for early years practitioners in line with the updated Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) safeguarding requirements effective from September 2025.

The EYFS Statutory Framework is mandatory for all early years settings. It establishes the standards providers must meet to ensure children learn, develop well, and remain healthy and safe. From 1 September 2025, all registered early years providers must adhere to the updated framework. Regardless of your role or the type of setting, it is crucial to align with these new requirements and complete training that meets the safeguarding criteria outlined.

The course features engaging video content, interactive activities, and knowledge checks, giving you the skills and confidence to meet your safeguarding responsibilities effectively.

Please note that this online course must be completed within 90 days of commencement and includes an online assessment. Upon successful completion you will receive a Certificate of Completion.

Modules

Who should complete this course?

This course is aimed at everyone who works with early years children including:

  • Childminders (sole practitioner*, practitioners*, assistants or any additional support to the setting whilst children are present e.g. catering)
  • Nursery and Group settings (governor/trustee, proprietor, Designated Safeguarding Lead*, manager or supervisor, practitioner, student/apprentice, any additional support to the setting whilst children are present e.g. catering/cleaning)
  • School settings– (governor/trustee, Designated Safeguarding Lead*, teacher, teaching assistant, nursery nurse, student/apprentice, or any additional support to the setting whilst children are present e.g. catering, lunchtime provision, cleaning)

*If you are the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) in your setting or have additional safeguarding responsibilities, you should also complete the Early Years Designated Safeguarding Lead (EYDSL) course. This course provides comprehensive training on the specific responsibilities and duties of the DSL role, in line with the updated Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) safeguarding requirements effective from September 2025.

The course also incorporates the latest guidance from Keeping Children Safe in Education and Working Together to Safeguard Children, ensuring your knowledge is up to date and aligned with current statutory expectations.

Covers the latest statutory and best practice guidance:

If eLearning isn’t right for your trust, school or setting, we offer trainer-led sessions, onsite and/or by virtual delivery. 

If you are looking for bespoke training, please get in touch.

Frequently asked questions

Our eLearning platform is accessible through desktop, laptop, tablets and mobile devices.

You can access the e-Learning platform at any time convenient to you. We have designed it to give you the flexibility to work around your professional and personal commitments.

Don’t just take our word for it, this is what one learner recently told us

“I have 4 children and like the fact I can learn aspects of my new role at a time convenient to me.”

Definitely not…!  We have designed the course to be interactive and engaging. You’ll find 20+ expert videos introducing you to key safeguarding concepts plus lots of interactive learning activities to increase your knowledge. At the end of each module, you will complete an assessment to test your understanding of key concepts within that module.

The course must be completed within 90 days of commencement, and upon successful completion and assessment you will receive a Certificate of Completion.

Don’t worry you can email our friendly and approachable team on admin@safeguardingsupport.com and they will respond to your question within 2 working days.

Booking is easy! Just click on the course and we’ll take you over to complete the booking process.

If you have any questions or need any support with your booking, why not give a member of our bookings team a call on 01274 752299 or email  admin@safeguardingsupport.com.

Rachel Priestley

Rach has a background in Business Development and Administration, gaining much of her knowledge and experience through her 19 year career with the NHS working within the executive office, community services and public health. 

Before moving on from the NHS, Rach supported the Chief Executive, the Chairman and the Trust Board of a local NHS Care Trust, which managed Children’s Services. Her responsibilities spanned across HR, Finance, Governance, Compliance, Risk, systems and processes, and internal training. Rach also supported the Children’s Safeguarding Lead with safeguarding investigations.

In 2017, she left the NHS to pursue a successful self-employed career supporting business to grow, with flexible business development and administration support, which she continues to do on a part-time basis.

Rach is in house trained, and is passionate about delivering outstanding services and enjoys working as part of the safeguarding team to achieve a common goal.

In her own time, she loves spending time outside, and long walks with the two family dogs. 

Shelley Armstrong

Shelley joined Safeguarding Support in 2020 as an experienced AET-qualified freelance trainer, and now enjoys working across the business, keeping clients as up to date as possible with the ever changing challenges facing safeguarding children in education.

Whilst we aim to simplify safeguarding, Shelley’s passion is to ensure engagement, pride and confidence through training and support. Shelley enjoys applying the competencies gained in different industries and environments to researching, designing, and developing materials for those with the responsibility to safeguard children, and in return has enormous respect for their commitment.

Her experience across the private business sector brings commercial skills to training and her background in psychology and counselling ensure courses are designed and delivered with the learner in mind.

Shelley lives in Yorkshire and enjoys walking her springer spaniels – come rain or shine!

Abigail Havon

Abigail is an experienced AET qualified trainer who began her safeguarding career in the charity sector.  There she was a regional manager and part of the safeguarding leadership team.  She was involved in writing policies and procedures, developing, and delivering training and supporting staff and volunteers to work 121 with children struggling with their literacy. 

She has worked in a variety of business environments gaining experience in different sectors. She has always chosen roles that call for collaboration and communication to bring the best out in people and projects to completion.  Abigail passionately believes that empowering educators to work together as part of a safeguarding team will lead to better outcomes for children and young people. 

As part of the SSL training team her role focuses mainly on delivering virtual training. 

Abigail lives near the Jurassic Coast and enjoys long walks and caring for her jungle of houseplants.  

Carol Stephenson

Carol has spent her entire career teaching in Bradford primary schools. Most recently she was Head Teacher of a large, outstanding, multi-academy trust, inner-city
school where she gained Local Leaders of Education (LLE) status.

Carol is a highly experienced Designated Safeguarding Lead and safeguarding Governor, with an extensive range of expertise, skills and knowledge. It was through this depth of experience that she became a dedicated representative of Bradford Children’s Safeguarding Board. In June 2019, Carol was awarded a Bradford Safeguarding Champions lifetime achievement award 2019 for her continued work in safeguarding the children of Bradford.

Carol is in-house trained and is NSPCC certified to deliver Child Protection and Safeguarding training.

In her spare time, Carol enjoys working on her allotment.