Keep people safe. Know exactly what your duty is.
A regulated certificate that goes well beyond a tick-box module. You will understand safeguarding, the Prevent duty and professional boundaries - and what to do when something worries you.
Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Safeguarding and Prevent
- Four mandatory live sessions
- Safeguarding and Prevent in one certificate
- Assignments and work product
- Online learning library in your account
Course fee
£399
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Want to start right away?
- Start today - full access to all four units straight away
- Work at your own pace, no live sessions to attend
- Optional 1:1 with your tutor for each unit if you need it
- Same assessment, marking and certificate as every learner
Awarding body
Focus Awards
Level
Level 2 · 16 credits
Guided learning
120 hours
Assessment
Assignments
Taught
4 live sessions
Why learn with us
Supported, practical and recognised
More than awareness
A regulated qualification that evidences real understanding, not a certificate of attendance.
Confidence to act
Know what to look for, who to tell and how to keep yourself and others safe.
Ready for inspection
Evidence your safeguarding knowledge for a new role, a wider duty or an inspection.
What you will study
4 units, one clear journey
Focus Awards Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Safeguarding and Prevent · QRN 610/7711/2 · TQT 150 · 16 credits. Available in England.
- 1Unit 120 guided hours · 4 credits
Safeguarding in various contexts
What safeguarding means across education, health and care settings.
- 2Unit 230 guided hours · 4 credits
Understanding the Prevent duty
Radicalisation, the Prevent duty and your role in it.
- 3Unit 330 guided hours · 4 credits
Safeguarding policies and procedures
Policies, reporting procedures, training and development.
- 4Unit 430 guided hours · 4 credits
Professional boundaries and ethics
Boundaries, ethical considerations and the role of supervision.
See the full specification, learning outcomes and cohort dates →
For anyone with a duty of care
For staff in education, healthcare and social care who want to be sure of their safeguarding responsibilities.
- Education staff
- Health and care workers
- Youth and community workers
- Aspiring safeguarding leads
- Work in education, healthcare or social care with confidence in your safeguarding duties
- Take on wider safeguarding responsibilities in your team
- Evidence your safeguarding knowledge for a new role or inspection
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