Awareness of the Safeguarding and Prevent - Lokman Training

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21 hours

Licensed hackney carriage and private hire taxi drivers who already hold local authority licenses and have progressed from NVQ.

This course informs drivers of:

• the PREVENT and Safeguarding strategies
• the signs and awareness of radicalisation
• the signs and symptoms of safeguarding children and young people
• how to report issues

• understand the term radicalisation
• aim of PREVENT
• current legislation
• roles and responsibilities of adults in relation to safeguarding
• the factors that influence vulnerability
• be able to recognise the signs
• understand actions to be taken
• the role of social media and safe use of online and social media
• understand individual responsibilities
• ways of abuse
• indicators of abuse
• cyber and online bullying
• process of disclosing
• reducing risk of online and cyber bullying
• know which agencies provide support for safeguarding issues

Completion of the course ensures you have awareness of safeguarding and prevent. This is a local authority requirement to allow drivers to retain their licences.