Safeguarding

Recognising Patterns of Grooming

When someone gains the trust of a child or vulnerable adult in order to manipulate or abuse them, it’s known as grooming. Being able to spot the signs early is essential when safeguarding against the harm that grooming causes, and it’s critical in schools more than anywhere else. This grooming awareness course will help you do that.

Learning outcomes:

Identify patterns of grooming
Recognise warning sign behaviours in a child or vulnerable person
Explain how to help vulnerable people be more aware of unsafe situations
Describe how to respond to potential grooming situations

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What you will learn

Who is this course for

This course aims to help you identify patterns of grooming and recognise the warning signs that can suggest a child or young person is being groomed. This information will help you support vulnerable people so they too can be aware of potentially unsafe situations while responding and taking steps yourself to safeguard them against harm.

This school safety course is for anyone who wants to improve their safeguarding awareness skills, particularly those within schools whose work closely with children or vulnerable adults who could be the victims of grooming.

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This course also has an assessment at the end which allows learners to test their understanding and helps businesses demonstrate a level of competence in the topic.

Accessibility

Everyone has the right to learn and learner need can vary depending on environment or disabilities. To support this diversity, we provide transcripts so people have text options for media, alongside subtitles for all videos.