Available courses

Let's talk trauma: a guide for young people and professionals

This resource, for professionals and young people to work through together, explores how trauma can affect everyone's brains and bodies differently.

Recognising and supporting vicarious trauma

This course explores how our work in the children’s sector can impact our mental health and provides practical advice and strategies to help you support your own wellbeing whilst fulfilling your role.


My Rights, My Say eLearning

A short module designed to help teachers support children and young people with additional support needs in schools.

Vision Impairment in Preschool Children eLearning Course

This course is designed to enhance your understanding of vision impairment in children and offers strategies that you can adopt and should consider for your early years settings.


Building Good Relationships with Children and Young People eLearning

This course will help you understand how you can build strong, meaningful and productive working relationships with the children and young people you work with.

Children's Rights eLearning

This course is designed to support you to develop your knowledge about children's rights in Scottish policy and practice.

Participation with Children and Young People eLearning

This course is designed to help you understand and enact good quality participation and engagement with children and young people. 

The Fostering Network eLearning

This course is designed to help you support care experienced young people in schools.

An introduction to Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)

In this module, you will explore Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) and how it helps to ensure that children and young people get the right help, at the right time, from the right people.



Site announcements

Enhance your understanding: join our upcoming webinars on the UNCRC!

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UNCRC implementation and best practice in the workplace

Thursday, 19 September 2024 |10am - 12pm | Online

Learn about children’s rights and how the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 supports best practice in the workplace.



Free for Local Authorities in membership with Children in Scotland:

Right to be Heard (UNCRC Article 12) for Local Authority members

Thursday, 31 October 2024 | 10:00 - 11:30 | Online

An in-depth look at Article 12, which sets out the right for children to be listened to, and what this means for local authorities.



Children's Rights and the UNCRC for Local Authority members

Wednesday, 29 January 2025 | 10:00 - 12:00 | Online

Learn what the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 means for local authorities and learn about key articles of the UNCRC.




Thu, 19 Sept 2024, 10:00


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More learning opportunities from Children in Scotland

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In addition to the free eLearning courses here, we also offer live open sessions online and in-person. Learn more about our open learning programme here.

Need to update your Child Protection training? We offer online courses on that. See our upcoming dates here.

Have a number of staff you need to train? We work with your organisation’s objectives, budget, and schedule to develop a learning package that is right for you offering shorter length seminars, half or full-day workshops, as well as multiple-day sequenced learning programmes.  Learn more about our commissioned training here.


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