Nursery World - Case study: training with common sense

It is vital that practitioners keep up-to-date with the latest developments in child protection, says Karen Hardman. She manages the Station House family centre in Thurnscoe, near Rotherham. She praises the NSPCC home study pack which was issued through Barnsley Choices EYDCP. 'I found the material very user-friendly and of real practical assistance,'

'I found the material very user-friendly and of real practical assistance,'

she says. 'There is a multiple choice test section and I completed this before reading the course to gauge initially how much I knew. I then went back and read the whole thing and adjusted some of my answers.'

Karen had trained in child protection at an earlier stage in her career and felt she was already quite clued up. However, there was still a lot in the training pack that was new, and she has since used the exercises with her volunteers.

'The main thing to remember is that it is not rocket science - a lot comes down to common sense,' she says. 'If a child's behaviour changes there is always a reason for it, and a practitioner should take note and try to dig a bit deeper to find out what is going on.'

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