Review of the Children First Basic Level Training and Keeping Safe Training programmes
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2014-04Author
Reddy, John
Devaney, Carmel
McGregor, Caroline
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Devaney, Carmel, & McGregor, Caroline. (2014). Review of the Children First Basic Level Training and Keeping Safe Training programmes (pp. 133). UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Abstract
TUSLA, the Child and Family Agency (the Agency) is1
committed to ensuring
the child protection and welfare training provided is designed and delivered in a
responsive and effective manner to all who receive it. Two standardised training
programmes are currently provided by the Agency personnel: Children First
Basic Level Training is delivered to all Agency and Health Service Executive
staff by Workforce Development Training Officers; and Keeping Safe also basic
level training, is delivered externally by Children First Information and Advice
Officers to those working with children and families in voluntary and community
services. The Children First Basic Level Training programme that is delivered to
Agency Staff2 was introduced by the workforce development team in September
2011 in response to the issuing of the Children First National Guidance for the
Protection and Welfare of Children (Department of Children and Youth Affairs,
2011). This basic level training programme was developed as a standardised
programme prior to this there were different programmes and approaches
nationally. Therefore, since 2011 there have been two standardised Children
First Basic Level programmes provided by the [then] HSE and the Child and
Family Agency, one for internal staff and one for external voluntary and
community services staff. A review of these training programmes was
commissioned in 2012 to provide the necessary information for the Agency to
make an informed decision on the type and amount of child protection and
welfare training each course should contain to ensure the training was meeting
the needs of the target groups.