Safeguarding training that asks your people what they would do.

Tusla's module is titled Introduction to Children First. Best practice in safeguarding training goes further than an introduction: it involves discussion, applied judgement, and some assessment of how a person would respond to a real situation. What your own organisation requires follows from your risk assessment.

The Children First Act 2015 requires a provider of a relevant service to carry out a written assessment of the risk of harm to children availing of it, and to prepare a child safeguarding statement setting out the procedures that manage each risk identified. Those procedures must cover reporting concerns to Tusla, recruitment and selection, investigating allegations against staff, maintaining a list of mandated persons, and providing information, instruction and training to staff and volunteers. The provider must also appoint a relevant person — commonly called the designated liaison person — as the first point of contact, display the statement where the service operates, furnish it to anybody who asks, and review it at least every twenty-four months. Separately, mandated persons named in Schedule 2 have a personal duty to report to Tusla and to assist Tusla if asked.

The Children First Act 2015 requires organisations providing relevant services to children to provide child safeguarding information and training. It does not prescribe a provider, a format or a duration. Your organisation decides whether what you have done meets your obligation.

The course opens shortly; this is how it will run. Your people get a link. They watch Michael teach, in their own time, on any device. Between sections they talk through a real situation aloud and are questioned on their reasoning. At the end they get a certificate naming your organisation. Nothing to install and nothing for you to administer.

Nobody is failed and nobody is told they cannot work with children. They are simply not certified yet, and they can go again. Anything they have already demonstrated is kept.

Yes. Independent review is a substantial part of the practice. A review may examine a specific incident and how it was handled, or assess an organisation's safeguarding arrangements as a whole. In either case the organisation receives an independent written account it can act on and stand over.

Yes, and that is what it is built for — one person or three hundred, at their own pace. The course opens shortly and the price is published when it does; above a thousand people Michael prices it with you.