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This Safeguarding course expired on 20 January 2025. If you have completed this course, you can print your certificate here. 
This course has been replaced with our Safeguarding Children for Optometrists Level 2 course, reissued in January 2025.



Domains: Leadership & Accountability, Professionalism 

CPD Ref: C-100384

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CPD Type: Non-interactive

Closing Date: 20 January 2025


Docet has updated its course ‘Safeguarding Children for Optometrists’ for 2022. The course is accredited at Level 2 and includes case studies relevant to optometric practice. This online resource informs optometrists of the issues surrounding abuse in children and how to recognise and manage child patients presenting with signs of abuse. It outlines the regulatory and ethical issues and explains how to report concerns about children seen in their consulting room. The course has been updated to reflect change in legislation and guidance and includes further information on radicalisation, modern slavery and the risks of social media for children and young people. 

Each level 2 safeguarding e-learning module will take up to two hours to complete, depending on your individual learning speed, but you don’t have to complete a module all at once – you can do it section-by-section, taking the learning at your own pace.

Please note the Optical Confederation’s guidance recommends all practitioners undertake Safeguarding training at level 2 and many organisations such as the NHS have this as a requirement. 

Once you have completed and passed the non-interactive CPD quiz, you can print your certificate.

First published: April 2017
Last reviewed: January 2022

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    Professionalism

    s.11 Protect and safeguard patients, colleagues and others from harm

    • Knowledge of the legal requirements of optometrists to safeguard and protect children and young people from abuse, and the policies and procedures that should be in place in a practice.

    s.10 Work collaboratively with colleagues in the interest of patients

    • Able to recognise a disclosure of abuse and understand the need for co-operation and the sharing of information between agencies that provide support to children and young people.

    Leadership and Accountability

    s.8 Maintain adequate patient records

    • Understand what must be recorded in any case of a disclosure from a child or young person and where there are any suspicions of child abuse.

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