What you will learn
This online Safeguarding for Childminders course is designed to fulfil the child protection training needs of childminders, as specified in the official guidelines for children’s welfare and safeguarding.
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Explain the key components of safeguarding essential for a childminder’s role and articulate their importance in daily practice.
- Identify child abuse effectively and discern what constitutes neglect, helping you intervene when necessary.
- Protect children in digital spaces, ensuring they navigate the online world safely and responsibly.
- Know how to deal with safeguarding concerns promptly and efficiently, ensuring the child’s well-being at all times.
- Have the knowledge to challenge extremist ideas confidently and recognise the signs when children are at risk, thus intervening appropriately.
- Maintain a child-centred focus when considering safeguarding, ensuring their best interests are always prioritised
- Understand how to collaborate effectively with different safeguarding agencies, facilitating a holistic approach to child protection.
- Learn how to handle allegations and complaints with professionalism, sensitivity and in accordance with legal guidelines.
- Record and share information accurately, ensuring all relevant parties are informed and can act in the child’s best interest.
Modules
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1. Overview and Tips
Introduces the course outcomes and explains how to navigate, pause and return to the training. It also highlights accessibility tools including read aloud, browser zoom and translation.
2. September 2026 Safeguarding Guidance
Summarises the September 2026 EYFS amendments that affect childminders. Topics include safer sleep, suitable people checks, Ofsted or agency notifications, screen use and safety on outings.
3. Core Principles of Safeguarding
Explains safeguarding, child protection, significant harm and the factors that can increase a child’s vulnerability. It also covers childminder responsibilities such as maintaining policies and recruiting assistants safely.
4. Creating a Safe Environment
Explores how policies, risk assessments, safer working practice and appropriate professional boundaries help prevent harm. It also considers assistants, household or setting risks, complaints and allegations.
5. Recognising Abuse
Explains the main categories and indicators of abuse and neglect, together with exploitation and other specific safeguarding risks. Learners consider how context, behaviour and mental health concerns may signal that a child needs help.
6. Responding to Concerns
Shows how children may communicate abuse and the barriers that can prevent a disclosure. It explains how to listen calmly, respond appropriately and avoid promising confidentiality.
7. Reporting and Recording Concerns
Covers accurate recording, information sharing, body maps and the duty to report concerns. Childminders also consider allegations against themselves or assistants, low-level concerns and relevant notification routes.
8. Referring Concerns
Explains how to make a safeguarding referral and what may happen once it is accepted. It introduces strategy discussions, child protection conferences, plans and support for children and families.
9. Online Safety and Safeguarding
Introduces content, contact, conduct and commerce risks online. It covers grooming, cyberbullying, intimate-image sharing, cybercrime, AI risks and the EYFS guidance on children’s screen use.
10. Radicalisation and Extremism
Explains the duty to protect children from being drawn into extremism. Learners consider the Prevent strategy and possible indicators that a child or family member may be at risk of radicalisation.
11. Safeguarding in Practice
Uses realistic childminding scenarios to apply the principles of recognising, responding, reporting and recording concerns. The activities help learners distinguish poor practice from potential abuse.
12. Final Assessment
The assessment contains 12 questions selected at random from the question bank, with an 80% pass mark. Learners can retake it and receive their personalised certificate by email after passing.
13. Downloads
Provides practical resources to retain after the course, including a body map template. It also signposts safeguarding guidance and inspection information for each UK nation.
14. Post Course Evaluation
A short evaluation gives learners the opportunity to comment on the training. Feedback is used to review and improve future course content.
Who is this course for?
- Childminders and anyone who works with children in their own home
If you are a nanny or an au-pair we have a dedicated training course for you, our online Safeguarding for Nannies course.
Certification
This online Safeguarding for Childminders training course is accredited by The CPD Group.
Score 80% or more in the final assessment to receive your certificate, which is valid for 2 years.
Upon successful completion of this online course, you’ll be sent a personalised digital certificate as a PDF, enabling you to download and print it.
You can access a copy, reprint or download this certificate on our LMS (Learning Management System). This is your proof that you have been trained in safeguarding best practices and achieved compliance. The certificates include a verification number so anybody can authenticate the certificate’s legitimacy.
Your certificate is valid for 2 years. If you work with children under the age of five, including in early years settings and as a childminder or nanny, renewing your safeguarding training every two years is a legal requirement, not just good practice. We will remind you when your training is due for renewal.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Because I am a childminder, I work alone. Does this course cover content for a lone worker?
Yes, this online Safeguarding for Childminders course provides modules on recognising signs of abuse and neglect, as well as how to report concerns. It specifically addresses the unique challenges faced by lone workers like childminders.
Does this course include other disciplines of safeguarding training, like online safety and Prevent duty training?
Our online Safeguarding for Childminders course includes modules on Prevent duty training and online safety training. These modules align with the safeguarding outcomes specified by Ofsted. With this course, you’re essentially receiving three safeguarding courses in one.
