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Recognising & Responding to Coercive Control Self-Paced

  • NQS Areas
  • 2
    Area 2Children's health and safety
  • 3
    Area 3Physical environment
  • 5
    Area 5Relationships with children
  • 6
    Area 6Collaborative partnerships with families and communities
  • 7
    Area 7Governance and leadership

CELA’s Coercive Control workshop is a powerful learning experience built for community frontline early education and care professionals. An initiative of the NSW Government - Recognising and responding to coercive control is proudly funded by the NSW Government, through the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ).

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Overview

What you'll learn

The time you invest in this course will strengthen your capacity to recognise, respond to, and support children impacted by coercive control.

As you move through the modules, you will explore key concepts, reflect on your role, and engage with practical strategies designed to support your work as an early childhood educator, administrator, or leader. This learning experience will deepen your understanding of coercive control as a form of domestic and family violence, and the significant impact it can have on children and families.

What you'll learn
Highlights

What you'll take into practice

  • Build a clear understanding of coercive control and how it operates

  • Recognise behavioural and environmental indicators in children and families

  • Strengthen your knowledge of duty of care and mandatory reporting obligations in NSW

  • Develop confidence in your role as a protective adult

  • Explore practical ways to support children affected by coercive control

Why it matters

Understanding coercive control

​Coercive control is now recognised in NSW as a serious form of domestic abuse and family violence, and recent legal reforms have strengthened the need for educators to understand its impacts on children and families.

Early childhood educators and care professionals are often among the first protective adults outside the family who may notice when something isn’t right. Your role places you in a unique position to observe children’s behaviour, recognise warning signs, and take action that supports their safety and wellbeing. 

This course will strengthen your understanding of coercive control, your legal and ethical responsibilities, and how to respond when children may be affected by domestic and family violence. 

This training contains content about coercive control, domestic and family violence, and children’s experiences of harm. Please take care while reading.

 

Enrolment

Accessing the training platform

You will be enrolled in our dedicated training platform by a CELA representative using the unique email address provided at the time of booking. Once enrolment is complete, each participant will receive a welcome email with instructions to log in and set their password.

Please note that enrolment may take up to 24 hours to process on weekdays. Courses purchased after 12pm on Fridays, or over the weekend, will receive their login invitation on the following Monday.

Participants have 12 months from the date of enrolment to complete the course and can begin as soon as their enrolment is confirmed.

Hours of study

How many hours of study are suggested?

This course will take around 6 hours of study including reflection time, reading the practice guides and going through additional resources.

You have one year from the date of enrolment to complete this course. 

Your facilitator

Aline Majado

Aline Majado

Aline Majado is CELA’s RTO Manager and an experienced early childhood teacher, trainer, assessor, and content developer. With more than 20 years of experience across early childhood, vocational, and adult education, she specialises in child protection, trauma-informed practice, workforce capability, and the development of practical professional learning resources for the ECEC sector. At CELA, she leads the design and delivery of training and resources that support educators to respond to children and families with confidence, care, and a strong focus on safety, wellbeing, and children’s rights.

Acknowledgment of partners

The Recognising & Responding to Coercive Control team would like to acknowledge:

  • Our funders - NSW Government through the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ).

 

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