Risk Assessment for Child Carers Level 2
This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform effective risk assessments in a childcare setting. As a child carer, you are responsible for ensuring the safety and well-being of the children in your care, and risk assessment is a crucial part of this responsibility.
Throughout this webinar course, you will learn about the principles of risk assessment, including hazard identification, risk evaluation, and risk control measures. You will also learn how to identify and assess specific risks in a childcare environment, such as those associated with play areas, equipment, and hygiene.
This course will provide you with practical guidance and best practices for managing risk in a childcare setting, helping you to create a safe and secure environment for the children in your care.
Aim: To enable delegates to carry out health and safety risk assessments in order to provide a safe environment for children and adults.
Certification: Successful candidates will be issued with a certificate valid for 3 years.
Duration: 3 hours
This course is available via classroom training and online webinar.
Learning Objectives
- Identify a range of risks involved in the provision of childcare
- Assess risks to those in their care and those providing the care
- Implement suitable and sufficient measures to control the risks
Early Years Courses
Risk Assessment for Child Carers
Aim: To enable delegates to carry out health and safety risk assessments in order to provide a safe environment for children and adults.
Safeguarding Children
Aim: To raise awareness of an adult's role when working with children and young people and to ensure they understand how to protect the safety of young people as well as to be aware of sensitive situations in which they may find themselves.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for Early Years
Aim: To provide delegates with an awareness and understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion.
Basic Paediatric First Aid
This course aims to introduce basic first aid to learners who have children and babies in their care and to enable them to recognise and respond to a paediatric emergency.
Emergency Paediatric First Aid
Aim: To ensure that learners are trained in adult and paediatric first aid techniques, enabling them to recognise and treat those who are ill or injured.
Paediatric First Aid
Aim: To introduce first aid to learners who have children and babies in their care and to enable them to recognise and respond to a paediatric emergency.
Health and Safety for Child Carers
Aim: To identify the health and safety issues relating to those working in the child care environment.
Manual Handling for Child Carers
Aim: To recognise the principles of safe manual handling of children and the importance of risk assessment prior to any manual handling task.