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By teaching children healthy eating habits, and modelling these behaviours, you can help children maintain a healthy weight and normal growth. Also, the eating habits your children pick up when they are young will help them maintain a healthy lifestyle when they are adults.
Nutrition and Healthy Eating is aimed at nursery practitioners including cooks and chefs, as everyone has a responsibility to support the health and wellbeing of children they care for.

Building effective supervisory skills can help you to get the best out of your team and be more effective in your role. Although supervising can come easily to some people, others take longer to get used to the responsibility. This programme will show any supervisor how to get the most from their staff.

Maintaining an awareness of issues surrounding equality and diversity is essential to any organisation. This revealing course is split into four modules to thoroughly explore the issues involved and their relevance to us all, including protections laid out in the Equality Act 2010.

With this course you will learn inclusion in terms of equality and diversity and the universal benefits of promoting an inclusive workplace. The course discusses protected characteristics and explains the problems surrounding prejudice and discrimination.

This course is intended for anyone who would like to ...

This engaging and thought-provoking course will give learners an insight into fire safety in the UK.

With interactive features, the course discusses legislation regarding fire safety in the workplace, the typical fire hazards that you might encounter, what causes a fire, and what to do should a fire start where you work. This course is intended for every workplace needing to know about fire safety.

The Government has defined the term 'safeguarding children' as 'The process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development, and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully. Safeguarding Awareness Level 1 is suitable for those who have infrequent direct contact with children and young people, and may become aware of possible abuse or neglect.

Please note that this course is fully funded for governin ...

It is important for you to refresh your knowledge on working safely with computers. This short course gives you the help and guidance needed to ensure the workplace is set up correctly and your work routine is designed to minimise the risk to your health and safety.

This course is for AfC staff only.

This engaging course will provide a basic introduction to health and safety processes at Achieving for Children.

In order to comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act and regulations, employers must control the risks in the workplace, which includes providing a Health and Safety induction to staff.

There is so much cyber security advice available these days, many people find it hard to know where to start. Some organisations struggle to explain why cyber security is something that all staff should care about. Even larger organisations (with dedicated training resources) find it difficult to explain the technical aspects of cyber security in ways that are relevant to their staff, so that they can help keep their organisations (and themselves) safe from cyber attack.

Equally, many small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and charities may not have the resources to put any cyber security ...

Achieving for Children has implemented Signs of Safety from 19th June 2017. The Signs of Safety model promotes strong relationship building and enables practitioners across different disciplines to work in partnership with children and families to maintain a focus on building safety within the family.

This eLearning is an introduction to Signs of Safety and will give staff and partners an opportunity to learn the basics of the framework, identify key tools and explore how to apply the model within all job roles.

Mishandled data can lead to serious consequences for organisations as well as for individual staff members, including financial penalties and disciplinary action.

Compliance with data protection legislation is both a personal and an organisational responsibility. All staff, including volunteers, have a responsibility to know how to process personal data.

This course is aimed at all Achieving for Children staff.