knowledge of the law and the ability to train her staff for free.
The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) runs a 'train the trainer' programme to enable nursery owners, managers and safeguarding leads to bring their safeguarding training in-house.
Leah Chikamba, operational manager for Big Life nurseries in Manchester, attended along with another senior member of staff. They will train 70 staff at the seven nurseries in the group over the next year.
The advanced safeguarding programme is a combination of face-to-face, distance and online training. Her one-day face-to-face session was delivered by Jo Baranek, an NDNA lead early years advisor, and as well as the core training it involved hearing several case studies and sharing good practice with other trainees.
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