100,000th learner for the Safeguarding Children e-Academy
12 Jan 2010
by: Margaret Snell
Online child protection training provider, the national Safeguarding Children e-Academy, has achieved a significant milestone after signing up the 100,000th learner for one of its courses.
The landmark learner for the Awareness of Child Abuse and Neglect module - the first course to be launched by the Safeguarding Children e-Academy following its launch in 2006 - was Andrea Embleton, from Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.
Andrea, who was awarded an ipod to mark the occasion, said: “E-learning was a totally new experience to me and at the outset I was a little apprehensive as I did not see myself as being very computer literate. However, I found the course easy to follow and the format made learning a pleasure. It was great to be able to fit the course around my diary and I would recommend it to anyone who is undertaking online training of this kind for the first time.”
Gosforth-based Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust had double reason to celebrate after learning that its success in training 2,174 members of staff via e-learning in a single month represented a record high among Safeguarding Children e-Academy members nationwide.
The Trust’s Training & Development Administration Manager, Fiona Kettle, said: “Adopting e-learning has helped us train a lot of people very quickly and to a high standard. It has also meant that our face-to-face trainers have been freed to concentrate on the front-line professionals who require specialist training.”
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