Training for early years and childcare providers in Brighton & Hove

This course is for leadership and management staff in early years.

Introduction to recruitment and selection:

• how to create a robust job description, person specification and job advert that promotes the ethos

Safer recruitment techniques:

• ID and overseas checks
• references
• value-based interviewing

Shortlisting and interviewing:

• analysing applications to shortlist
• interview questions and rating systems
• practice-based interview
• making a decision

Successful and safe inductions.

There are some practical exercises to assess your learning.

Estimated time to complete is 3 hours. You have 6 months to complete the training.  

Once you complete the training, a digital certificate is automatically issued.

This course is for all staff in early years settings.

Safeguarding Children – Part 1 

• safeguarding, duty of care and child protection
• regulatory requirements
• local authority safeguarding procedures
• roles and responsibilities of the early years worker

Safeguarding Children – Part 2 

• different forms of Child Abuse
• actions to take if harm or abuse is suspected and/or disclosed

Safeguarding Children – Part 3 

• procedures that need to be followed by childcare and early years professionals
• policy and procedure for the safeguarding, protection and welfare of children 

Each part has a short quiz that must be completed to progress.

Estimated time to complete is 4 hours.

Once you complete the training, you can generate your digital certificate.

This course is for all staff in early years settings.

The course:

• covers the legal responsibilities of workers within a food environment
• comprehensively addresses food safety threats and the good practices required to minimise them, specifically in an early years setting

The course is divided into 11 modules. 

Each module has a practical assessment. In the end, you have a final exam.

Estimated time to complete is 30 minutes per module. You have 30 days to complete the training.

Once you complete the final exam, you can generate your digital certificate (CPD certified).

This course is for all staff in early years settings.

This course covers the basics of staying safe in the workplace, including formal and informal risk assessment, specifically in an early years setting. 

The course is divided into 16 modules. 

Each module has a practical assessment. In the end, you have a final exam. 

Estimated time to complete is 30 minutes per module. You have 30 days to complete the training. 

Once you complete the final exam, you can generate your digital certificate (CPD certified). 

This course is suitable for those registering on the Early Years Register, or both the Early Years and Childcare Registers. 

This CPD-certified online training course covers all the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) necessary for registration with Ofsted plus extra information that will help you build a high-quality and sustainable childminding business. 

The course contains the following 5 modules.

Understanding and Working with the EYFS

A step-by-step journey through the EYFS which explains how the requirements should be implemented in a childminding setting.

Recording Children’s Development

Includes observing and assessing children and planning the next steps, linking observations to the areas and aspects of learning and characteristics of effective learning. Set out on the EYFS.

Safeguarding Children

Introduces the relevant documentation you need to know about and covers how to recognise signs and symptoms of abuse and how to record and refer concerns. It also covers information about:

• Prevent Duty
• Female Genital Mutilation
• Child Sexual Exploitation
• Breast Ironing
• Gang Activity - including County Lines and Signs of Safety which is an international process that has been adopted by many areas of England

It has gained course approval from the Northamptonshire Local Safeguarding Children Board. For childminders who will employ others, it includes a safeguarding children employers responsibility handout.

Developing Children’s Learning

Information to help you fully understand and support children’s learning. There are 3 main topics:

• Child Development (including mental health and Attachment Theory)
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• play

Leading and Managing a Childminding Setting

All you need to know about the business aspects and practical issues of running a successful childminding business including information about how best to market your business, how to comply with tax and insurance requirements and much more. 

Each module has a multiple-choice knowledge test at the end which you must pass to gain your certificate. There are no assignments or requirements for written tests to pass this course.

Each module is likely to take between 2 and 3 hours to complete. We suggest that you complete the modules.

Once all 5 modules have been completed, you will be able to print off your Childminder Introductory Training Certificate which you will need to show to Ofsted.