Trauma awareness: spotting the signs

  How high would you rate your trauma awareness? According to the Worldwide Health Organisation (WHO), the average human will go through roughly 3.5 traumatic events in their lifetime and often the repercussions can take a while to surface. It’s a known phenomenon that the brain sometimes hides particularly stressful, traumatic or fear-related memories to…

Safeguarding Adults Awareness Week

This week is an important week in the safeguarding calendar as we mark and highlight the importance of ‘Safeguarding Adults Awareness Week’. We are extremely fortunate to have our own, SAFE associate Paul Northcott, share his thoughts and personal experience with us. Safeguarding Adults Awareness Week not only provides us all with an opportunity to…

National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month

October marks National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month, a month-long observation to educate and raise awareness of the effects of bullying and cyberbullying (Online bullying).  The consequences of bullying are known, but not limited to; lower self-esteem, depression, isolation, and physical and emotional scars. These behaviours cause physical and emotional pain and distress. Bullying can happen to…

Safeguarding Training Levels

How do you know what level of Safeguarding Training you need? Safeguarding Associates for Excellence offer a range of comprehensive training courses. All our Safeguarding training is designed to meet the requirements for any organisation working with children, young people and adults. We have worked hard to ensure that the course content meets the needs…

Our 2021 Safeguarding Courses

We are excited to share our 2021 Safeguarding Courses. SAFE received some outstanding feedback from both individuals and companies/organisations who undertook a variety of safeguarding training with us during 2020. On reflection, I’m sure most would agree that 2020 has been a most challenging year indeed. For SAFE it has involved our trainers acquainting themselves…

Safeguarding Training Courses

What is Safeguarding?

Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children and adults and protect them from harm. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and, all organisations that work with or have contact with children and adults at risk must demonstrate compliance with this responsibility. What is Safeguarding? Safeguarding is the policies and practices that…