Before Booking

Please note that not all Local Authorities will accept the attendance of a virtual course as part of your application.  You must check with your Local Authority prior to booking.

Overview

This is an adaptation of our highly interactive classroom-based Taxi Safeguarding course is available to taxi and private hire drivers.

The course has been adapted to allow candidates to complete the course using video conferencing instead of attending a classroom setting.

Course Content

The course aims to provide Taxi and Private Hire drivers with a knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, their responsibilities and best practice protocols. The candidate will be able to:

• Understand what is meant by the term ‘safeguarding’
• Identify adults at risk and other vulnerable people
• Understand what is meant by Child Sexual and Criminal Exploitation, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery and Domestic Abuse.
• Recognise types of abuse, associated signs and indicators.
• Identify suspicious activities.
• Know how, and the whom, they can report concerns.
• Understand their safeguarding responsibilities and best practice protocols.

Learning will be consolidated via Knowledge Check Questions throughout the course.

This is a CPD Certificate accredited course.

Following successful completion of the course you will receive an e-Certificate.

The course will run for approximately 2.5 hours.

Locations

The course is carried out from your own home by logging into Zoom, an online video conferencing platform.

Requirements

In order to partake in the course, you will need to download Zoom on your laptop or tablet.  A phone can be used however we recommend the use of a laptop or tablet to give you a larger screen.

Zoom is free to download at https://zoom.us/ .  You must download this well in advance of the training session.  We recommend that you test that it works on your system in advance.  We cannot refund anyone whose access / connection does not work for their booking.  

Upon joining the training session, you MUST show your Driving Licence and/or Taxi Badge to the trainer to prove your identity.