Working with children: Identifying and responding to vulnerable children

Course Overview

The unique position healthcare workers are in to identify vulnerable children and young people and suspected child abuse and neglect cannot be overstated. For many practitioners, knowing how to respond appropriately to warning signs remains one of the most challenging aspects of professional practice.

Through the use of a decision making framework, this comprehensive, interactive course provides insight and practical guidance to nurses and midwives. It emphasises the central role nurses and midwives play in supporting children and young people who may be at risk of serious harm – highlighting the essential role an individual practitioner can have in stopping harm being caused to a child.  

This course is made up of 3 modules: 

1. Working with vulnerable children: Identifying and responding to vulnerable children
2. Working with vulnerable young people and the age of consent
3. Working with vulnerable children: Mandatory reporting 
   

This course has been written by healthcare content experts and peer reviewed.

Target Audience

Nurses, midwives and all healthcare workers in contact with children.

Learning Objectives

Through case based scenarios, participants will learn about the rights of children, risk factors for harm, how to identify vulnerable children, and how nurses and midwives are to respond when a child makes a disclosure of abuse or is suspected of being abused or at risk of harm.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles underpinning child protection.
• Know the features of an environment that supports a child who is safe, healthy and able to reach their full potential as a person.
• Understand the rights of all children and how healthcare workers support those rights.
• Know what essential skills healthcare practitioners working with children must develop to identify vulnerable children.
• Identify children who are vulnerable or at risk.
• Appropriately assess children who are suspected of being at risk.
• Respond appropriately to children who make disclosures of child abuse and neglect.
• Respond appropriately when identifying a vulnerable a child or a child at risk.
  

Business Outcomes

This course can be used as a comprehensive learning package for all employees working with children and young people. It meets requirements for providing ongoing, regular, robust training in child and young person protection and safety and mandatory reporter training.

It covers laws from every state and territory with participants able to select their jurisdiction for laws and case based scenarios.