Overview
What you'll learn
Gain your child protection certification with the course that sets the standard for the sector.
This comprehensive course covers everything early childhood education professionals need to know in order to feel confident and capable when it comes to child protection, no matter their level of experience.
CELA has been delivering child protection training as a Registered Training Organisation for over 15 years, and as a peak body for early education and care, we have been trusted by hundreds of services to educate their teams on this topic.
Our 3-part, APST aligned live webinar series covers the following areas:
- Legal requirements, including the responsibilities of mandatory reporters
- How to identify significant harm, dynamics of abuse and risk factors
- All reporting requirements for the early childhood sector
- What's required in the provision of child-safe environments
- Practical approaches for supporting children and young people who have experienced abuse, neglect and traumatic experiences.
New and updated focus areas
This course supersedes CHCPRT001 - Identify and Respond to Children and Young People at Risk. CHCPRT025 Identify and report children and young people at risk is a new non-equivalent Unit of Competency (UoC).
This new unit has been written by CELA's team of child protection specialists including early childhood education and care professionals, early childhood teachers and family court professionals.
You will need to formally enrol in our student management system before commencing this course. A link to your electrocnic enrolment form will be provided to you in your booking confirmation email.
New child protection topics discussed and assessed in CHCPRT025 include:
- Barriers to reporting child abuse and disclosures
- Professional boundaries
- Risk and protective factors in diverse domains
- Dynamics of abuse
- Enhanced duty of care
- Privacy and confidentiality
- Trauma informed care and strengths-based approaches