Cumberland Safeguarding Children Partnership is committed to ensuring that the wider children’s workforce is operating in an environment where learning and improvement underpins their work with children and families.
All organisations working with children and families are responsible for ensuring that staff receive appropriate safeguarding training relevant to their role and responsibilities. To assist organisations in fulfilling this responsibility, CSCP has produced a guide.
The Department for Education (DfE) have produced a free online Early Years Safeguarding training package in collaboration with the NSPCC. The training covers sections one and two of the safeguarding training Annex C in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework. Designed for those working with children from birth to five, the training provides early years educators with the foundations they need to identify signs of abuse to children in their care and to create a positive safeguarding culture.
To register for the training please click here Free training launched to strengthen early years safeguarding skills | NSPCC
This course will help you understand the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework and the legal requirements it sets for children's learning, development and care from birth to age five.
This course will cover:
Please also refer to our recently published 5-Minute Briefing - Safeguarding Training for Practitioners working with children in Early Years
The CSCP is committed to a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Our 'Training Strategy 2026-2029' is for everyone who works with children, young people and their families in Cumberland, and it complies with Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026.
Discover the different types of safeguarding training, which is most appropriate and what the training should cover, depending on your role, please review our What Training is Right for Me?
The CSCP appreciate that, at times, organisations may need to cancel places they have booked on training courses. However, this can be costly in relation to wasted resources.
Therefore, the CSCP have implemented a training cancellation and non-attendance policy and if you need to cancel a training course you have booked, you should email the CSCP Business Team within the timescales outlined in the our Training Cancellation and Non-Attendance Policy.
We have a number of courses available through our eLearning platform. Also available is how to register/log into your eLearning account.
We have a number of training sessions, being delivered by our training partners either face to face or virtual.
The forums provide an opportunity to develop common practice across the county and help people who work with children and young people learn from each other, understand each other's roles and responsibilities and what local provision is available in each part of the county.
