Child Safety: Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention

Develop an understanding of the risks to children’s safety and consider preventative strategies. Register now and start anytime.

Time:Price
Free
Time:Duration
1.5 hours
Time:Delivery
Online
Time:Starts
Anytime

About this course

This course aims to raise awareness and understanding around keeping children and young people safe from abusive behaviours. This evidence-based learning is organised around the ideological standpoint that children have a right to be kept safe, but that they also have a right to participate and have a say in matters that affect them. The course addresses myths and misconceptions and provides practical and trauma-informed recommendations.

The Child Safety: Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention course is one of two offerings developed by globally recognised researchers at the Peter Underwood Centre, within the University of Tasmania as part of the University's commitment to children's rights and safety.

Access the free introductory course entitled Introduction to Children’s Rights and Safety.

Who should do this course?

The course is ideal for members of the community and organisations working with children and/or with an interest in child safety.

Course Structure

This course is self-paced, fully online, and will take around 1.5 hours to complete. You will be required to complete a quiz to test your learning before receiving a digital certificate.

What you will learn

On completion of the course, you will be able to:

  • Recognise the importance of preventing and addressing child and young person abuse
  • Identify risk factors and misconceptions about child and young person abuse, offenders and patterns of offending
  • Identify steps individuals and organisations can take to create a child-friendly culture and child safe environment

Develop an understanding around the risks to child safety

Identify steps to create a child-friendly and child-safe culture and environment

Course content delivers evidence-based learning, informed by global research

Receive your digital Certificate of Attendance on course completion

The Child Safety: Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention course is one of two offerings within the University of Tasmania as part of the University's commitment to children's rights and safety. Researchers at the Peter Underwood Centre collaborated with other experts within the University of Tasmania on the initiative.

Full list of the contributors.