This is a staff development solution for ALL staff in Scotland's colleges emphasising the main roles and responsibilities for the protection of children and young people.

This online professional learning opportunity for all staff will enable colleges to deliver ‘duty of care' requirements either as part of the induction processes or for any new staff appointments. Designed specifically for the Scottish context, legislation and college learning environment the programme can also be used as an update for existing staff.

The programme is designed for staff to work through the sessions at a place of their time and choosing. On completion, staff development officers will receive notification that staff have worked through the programme.

The programme takes approximately 45 minutes to complete including knowledge checks and understanding. There is also an audio introduction at the beginning highlighting key principles, issues and advice for college staff. The broad content areas are as follows:

• current safeguarding context in Scotland's colleges
• potential risk in a college context
• roles and responsibilities of all staff to safeguard children and young people.

To reinforce knowledge and understanding, participants can access relevant websites in easy to navigate resources and glossary sections.

Follow the instructions below to access a demonstration folder of the Staff Induction Demo:

• To view the Staff Induction Demo click on the link below and select 'Save' to save the folder to your computer.
• Next use your mouse to right click on the saved folder and then select 'Extract All', 'Next', 'Next'. Ensure the 'Show extracted files' box is ticked then click on 'Finish'.
• If you then double click the 'demo' folder and then double click the 'index' file the demo will open in your Internet Browser.

Staff Induction Demo (2.52 MB)