I recently completed the Introduction to Safeguarding online course offered by the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC). The TIS Safeguarding Team is piloting the course to see if it will be an alternative to our annual refresher course offered by TES Safeguarding. We also use Childsafeguarding.com for our Russian speakers to complete their annual refresher course.
The ICMEC course is similar to the TES Development course. It covers the basics and gives a good overview of safeguarding and will be a good refresher for our faculty and staff. I liked the extra resources that are available when completing each of the four modules. My big takeaway was the concept of contextual safeguarding. That is taking a balcony view of safeguarding and developing systems and habits that ultimately for schools, encourage people to be aware of possible child abuse and report disclosures and observations to the Designated Safeguarding Leads.
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