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Education Settings - Advanced Initial Safeguarding in Education training for DSLs/DSDs only (day 1 of 2)

KEY INFORMATION TO READ BEFORE YOU BOOK

• This course is only for professionals who have the safeguarding role of Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), or Designated Safeguarding Deputy (DSD) in your school’s safeguarding team on SchoolPoint.
• Only DSDs who will be expected to genuinely and fully deputise for the DSL should attend this course.  Other members of your setting’s safeguarding team should attend the Intermediate Safeguarding in Education course.
• DSLs and DSDs fully and genuinely deputising for the DSL are members of your settings safeguarding team who undertake all elements and levels of safeguarding work but often focus at the higher levels of the Thresholds of Needs.  This work would also include attending Strategy meetings, ICPCs and RCPCs, making referrals to the Safeguarding Hub and overseeing On-line Safety, all safeguarding disclosures and records.
• Headteachers may also wish to attend this course if they are not the DSL or a DSD.
• Staff who are not a DSL, a DSD as defined above, or a Headteacher, will be contacted to discuss their role and potentially be removed from the course.  Instead, these members of your safeguarding team can book onto the Intermediate Safeguarding in Education Course.
• Before completing this training you must have completed the face-to-face Basic Centralised/Whole-School Safeguarding Children in Education Training with Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership (SCSP) within the last 3 years (from September 2026 the Basic Safeguarding Children training is being organised by Learn Sheffield).
• Please note that, in response to positive evaluation and feedback, these courses will continue to be delivered a day a week over two weeks, rather than on two sequential days.
• It is important that you book onto Day 2 of this training (see dates below) by completing the Day 2 booking form once you have booked your Day 1 training to ensure that you complete the entire duration of the course to receive your certificate.
• New for 2026-2027 - Day 1 of this course will be held in person and Day 2 will be held online.  You will receive the joining link for Day 2 after you have attended Day 1 with any pre-course reading for Day 2.  Please note you must book onto the Day 2 date that is paired with the Day 1 date in the table below unless agreed with us.
  
• Each day will start promptly at 9.00am so please ensure you arrive and are settled in good time for the start.  If you arrive late it will be at the trainer’s discretion to decide whether you need to re-book for another date.
• If you miss either day of the course it is likely that you will need to repeat the full course.
• This SCSP 2-day training course delivered by the Safeguarding Children Advisors for Education is the only course that is required and suitable for DSL/Ds in Sheffield education settings.  If you have held the DSL/D role in a different Local Authority prior to working in Sheffield please contact the advisor linked to your setting to discuss your training needs.
• The course programme will consider legislation and practice guidance to understand the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead and Deputy and to develop confidence to work in partnership with other agencies and professionals to support children and their families with safeguarding and child protection issues. 

The course is free for maintained schools and academies.  There is a charge for 'free' and independent school staff attending.

Attendance on both days must be prioritised non-attendance without prior cancellation or agreement will be charged at £60.00 per session if it is not in line with our charging policy.

You must be logged into your training account to see availability on all sessions.

**Places are limited to 3 per setting per course.  Additional places booked will be cancelled and you will be asked to move to another date**.

If for some reason you are no longer able to attend please let us know as soon as possible so we can offer your place to someone else.  You can cancel the booking up to 7 days prior to the course date without incurring a charge by logging in to the booking system and clicking on 'My Account' in the top right hand side of the page.

To contact us about training e-mail: safeguardingchildrentraining@sheffield.gov.uk or telephone: 0114 2734530.

Please note you must book onto the Day 2 date that is paired with the Day 1 date in the table below. 

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