Evaluating the Impact of Safeguarding Training

Introduction

Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 outlines the role and responsibility of local safeguarding children partnerships to “monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of training, including multi-agency training, to safeguard and promote the welfare of children”.

The RSCP is committed to quality assuring both single and multi-agency safeguarding training and has set out the process of evaluation of training on page 2 of the RSCP Framework and Principles for Safeguarding Children Training 2022.

Our partners, Research in Practice (RiP), through Reason, have provided the following guides that can be used in relation to both multi-agency and single agency training – Reason Guide to Evaluating Training Impact Planning and Reason Guide to Evaluating Training – information on which is available to LB Redbridge and RSCP partners via the RSCP Contact Form.

Training Transfer

For training to have a positive impact on improving safeguarding practice, there is a requirement for ‘training transfer’ which is the process by which learning gets into practice.  The RSCP has shared the Research in Practice  resource document on training transfer with both training delegates, managers and training providers.  The document is available to London Borough of Redbridge and key RSCP partner agencies via the Research in Practice website.