To suggest that parents should all take a safeguarding course.

[imjackieweaver]

The amount of threads started or replies given that lack even basic understanding of safeguarding principles.

Advice to not get involved, talk to the parents involved or investigate a bit further etc.

Children never being told that some secrets are too big to keep.

It's so depressing.

Do the schools offer them? Or are they online? I think it would be useful.

I think it would be a great idea if there was more accessible safeguarding advice for parents. I don’t know if I’d want to do an actual course. Do you have any links to any that actually exist?

Before I started hearing the children read at my dc's primary school I had to take a safe guarding course, it was at the school and run by my the HT.
I have no experience or knowledge in this area and I agree with you OP, I think all parents should do one.
A lot of things covered eg children being abused to people not in their immediate family but in an orbital relationship with them such as sport coaches etc was not information I had ever come across but needed to hear.

I have to do level 1&2 for work and a separate course for The Scout Assosciation.

There is a site called volunteer now which says it has free courses but I haven't looked into them.

If you have a child in a youth group then volunteering to be an vocational helper will be given a course to complete.

The sad thing is I always assumed it was basic common sense but the threads on this site tell a different story.

A recent one had the mum worrying more about the effect on the child's friendships than the safety and well being of the other family.

Doing the right thing isn't always easy.

A recent one had the mum worrying more about the effect on the child's friendships than the safety and well being of the other family

A mother caring more about her own children than other people's? What a bitch!

No, all parents should not do a "safeguarding course".

It's a difficult one - the people who are abusive would benefit greatly from them in respect of learning how to cover their tracks more effectively. As it is, being unaware of all the processes and requirements mean that there have been people uncovered because they don't know that the little comments that 'don't feel right' made to assorted members of staff and efforts to get people on side/setting a narrative get reported and looked at as a whole.

People like my mother would have been caught out with current procedures. But not if she'd been able to learn about them first; she'd have been even more efficient at disguising the abuse.

@AtSwimTwoBerts

A recent one had the mum worrying more about the effect on the child's friendships than the safety and well being of the other family

A mother caring more about her own children than other people's? What a bitch!

No, all parents should not do a "safeguarding course".

A child potentially loosing a friend or the friend, younger sibling and mother being left in a violent abusive situation.

I hear where you are coming from OP 👍👍

I agree with you.
I work with vulnerable young people so obviously have a lot of safeguarding training.
You’re right, most people don’t want to get involved or get people into trouble or like you mentioned in your op - speak to he parents about it.
Obviously it shouldn’t be mandatory but decent informative safeguarding courses should be available for everyone.
Tbh, the nspcc website is pretty good tbh.

I've done a few as I work in a school ( non teaching) and I've found them informative but also harrowing especially as they use old real cases to hi light how child abuse can be overlooked too easily and how to answer a child who may come to you with any worries or problems. In all the years I've worked in a school I have never had to fill in the forms or help a child with any really big concerns, which is good , but it is good to know what I would do if this ever did come up.
The amount of time and effort schools put into this is huge. It's good that it exists , but I don't think everyone needs to do it really.