
Completing Broken Hearts – Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse will contribute 6 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Registered PD addressing 4.4.2, 6.2.2 and 6.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.
This course provides teachers with a background into some sobering statistics around the prevalence of children at risk. The course explains how teachers can identify a child at risk and provides some background into common types of abuse and directs teachers to access free websites where they can access reputed resources. Teachers are provided with links on how to refer a child to support services if child abuse is suspected and given simple instruction for referral and appropriate responses when they suspect a child may be at risk.