What you will learn
Our online Safeguarding for Music Groups course provides clear guidance on safeguarding practices, helping music group leaders create a safe environment and protect individuals they come in contact with.
By the end of course you will be able to:
- Comprehend the legislation affecting safeguarding in a music group setting.
- Identify and define various types of abuse.
- Recognise abuse risks.
- Appreciate the necessity of maintaining focus on the individual’s well-being.
- Know the appropriate actions to take if you suspect abuse.
- Fulfil your duty in reporting any concerns appropriately.
- Understand the best practices for using technology and mobile devices.
Modules
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1. Overview and Tips
Your starting point. This module sets out the course’s learning outcomes, explains how to navigate, pause and return to the course, and covers accessibility features such as read aloud, browser zoom and language translation. It also includes a content note, as later modules cover sensitive topics around abuse, neglect and exploitation.
2. Core Principles of Safeguarding
What child and adult safeguarding means, who is responsible for it, and the key legislation and guidance that underpins it across the UK. Covers key definitions, including ‘adult at risk’, and the roles of the safeguarding boards and agencies who support children and adults at risk.
3. Creating a Safe Environment
Using Finkelhor’s Four Factor Model, this module looks at how abuse happens and the barriers you can help build against it. Covers appropriate and inappropriate behaviour, safeguarding policies and risk assessments, maintaining a person-centred approach, and keeping yourself safe, including guidance on adjusting an instrument or posture safely.
4. Recognising Abuse
How to judge whether something is abusive, and who may be at risk and where, including in a community setting such as a music group. Covers the categories of abuse and neglect for both children and adults at risk, specific forms such as FGM and financial abuse, and the signs and indicators to look out for.
5. Responding to Concerns
Learn the different ways a child or adult may disclose abuse and the barriers that can prevent them from speaking out. This module explains how to listen and respond calmly and appropriately, including why you should never promise to keep a disclosure secret.
6. Reporting and Recording Concerns
Your duty to report and record concerns, and how to carry it out properly. Covers confidentiality and information sharing, how to record a disclosure accurately using a body map, allegations against staff or volunteers, and what to do if an adult discloses non-recent abuse.
7. Best Practices for Using Devices
Best practice for using mobile devices safely and effectively when running a music group. Covers setting clear device rules with members and their families, managing data responsibly, including recordings of performances, and using secure, well-established platforms for sharing and storing data.
8. Safeguarding in Practice
Apply the principles of recognise, respond, report and record to realistic safeguarding scenarios. The case studies include a music group member showing signs of self-neglect after bereavement and a young person’s changing behaviour and friendships, helping you identify poor practice and possible abuse.
9. Final Assessment
Test your knowledge with a random selection of questions drawn from the course question bank. You need 80% to pass and can retake the assessment as many times as you need. Your certificate is emailed to you automatically as soon as you pass.
10. Downloads
Access practical resources to support you after completing the course, including a body map template. You will also receive links to further reading if you want to explore any of the topics in more detail.
11. Post Course Evaluation
Complete a short post-course questionnaire about your learning experience. Your feedback helps us review and improve the training for future learners.
Who is this course for?
- Music group teachers and volunteers
- Choir leaders and organisers
- Private tutors of music groups
Certification
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.
Our certifications include a renewal date but there is no legal requirement to renew your training and certificate within a specific timeframe. However, we do recommend that you arrange refresher training after 2 years as safeguarding guidance does change. You should update your safeguarding knowledge and skills regularly.
