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Child protection officers promote children's wellbeing and protect them from harm or abuse.
You could do professional development training with your employer then go into child protection work. For example, you may be a police officer and complete relevant courses before moving to a child protection unit within your force.
Volunteering
Experience of working with vulnerable children is essential. You can get experience by volunteering in the community, with a charity or through paid work.
You'll need:
In your day-to-day duties you may:
You could become a lead officer, co-ordinating the work of your organisation's child protection team. You could also work for safeguarding partnerships between local authorities, schools, health bodies, charities and social services. With further training and experience, you could become a children's services inspector or a self-employed consultant, delivering training and advising organisations on child protection policies and regulations.
Probation officers supervise people serving community and prison sentences and help them to stay away from crime.
Family support workers help and advise families with long or short-term difficulties.
Drug and alcohol workers help people tackle their drug, alcohol or substance misuse problems.
Training officers plan and run courses and workshops for staff within organisations.
Youth workers guide and support young people aged 11 to 25. They organise activities to help with personal and social development.
British Sign Language (BSL) teachers teach sign language to children, young people and adults, and teach other subjects using sign language.
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Not only will your organisation (or the Government) pay for all of your training, but you’ll be paid to do it. That means you could actually get paid to get your degree and have no debt!
There are over 625 different apprenticeships to choose from, in a range of industries. Whether you’re interested in law, marketing, construction, or engineering, you’ll find something up your street!
As an apprentice, the minimum you’ll earn is £6.20 an hour, but we’ve seen apprentices earn a starting salary of up to £30,000 a year! You could also get other employee benefits like gym memberships, paid holiday, and sick pay.
Employers think apprentices are 15% more employable than those with other qualifications. In fact, many large employers train their graduates and apprentices together!
There’s only so much you can learn when you just do a qualification. As an apprentice, you’ll also get to learn on the job – whether that’s designing amazing graphics, chopping vegetables, or building engines!
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