Information for Workers

Swindon LSCB Training Levels

The levels of training defined below as identified in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 (p69).

Level 1

Staff in contact with children and young people and with adults who are parent/s or carers. These will be people who are in a position to identify concerns about maltreatment, including those which may arise from use of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF), and who, as a minimum, need introductory training on how to work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This includes housing and hospital staff, youth workers, child minders, private foster carers, those working with children in residential and day care settings and those working in sport and leisure settings in both a paid and unpaid capacity

Level 2

Staff who work regularly with children and young people, and with adults who are carers, and who may be asked to contribute to assessments of children in need. This includes GPs, hospital and community health staff, family centre workers, teachers, education welfare officers, social workers, mental health and learning disability staff, probation officers. This group should have a higher minimum level of expertise: a fuller understanding of how to work together to identify and assess concerns, to plan, undertake and review interventions

Level 3

Staff with a particular responsibility for safeguarding children, such as designated or named health and education professionals, police, social workers, and other professionals undertaking section 47 enquiries or working with complex cases, including fabricated and induced illness. Those in this group need to have a thorough understanding of Working Together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, including in complex and/or serious cases.