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03/03/2026 – Safeguarding Designated Child Protection Officer – Level 3
Course Information
This course is for staff who could potentially contribute to assessing,
planning, intervening and evaluating the needs of children and parental
capacity, where there are safeguarding issues or those with a Managerial
Supervisory role or a Specific safeguarding role.
Date: 03/03/2026
Start Time: 09:30
Completion Time: 6 Hours
Venue: Craigavon Civic Centre, Lakeview Road, Craigavon, BT64 1AL
Speakers: Mary McCartan
Course Aim
This course aims to provide Safeguarding Designated Officer Training Level 3.
Course objectives
- Develop working relationships with other professionals
- Manage effective professional relationships in the context of uncertainty, risk, complexity and
- competing needs.
- Understand their own role and the role of others
- Work together to meet the needs of children where there are safeguarding concerns
- Identify learning from case management reviews
- Contribute to interagency safeguarding assessments and risk analysis
- Contribute to interagency safeguarding plans
- Understand the importance of escalation regarding concerns about a child
- Ability to engage and challenge families and professionals in safeguarding and
- decision making
- Understand the impact of child abuse and neglect on child development
- Understand the importance and relevance to safeguarding children from research findings
- Ability to coordinate and possibly develop relevant safeguarding training
- Understand the importance of governance and accountably arrangements
- Ability to work within the court and child protection case conference
- Signs of Safety processes to safeguard children.
Participants must have undertaken training at level 2 prior to this course.
Level 3 requires 6 hours face to face formal training every three years.
Dietary Requirements
Please advise the Dental Continuing Education Team dentalcourses.nimdta@hscni.net if you have any dietary requirements.