Core Training in Scotland


TACT Scotland identified the following courses as core:

  1. Diversity and equality
  2. Safeguarding and safer caring
  3. Child sexual abuse
  4. Advanced safeguarding or Recognising and responding to abuse
  5. Attachments
  6. Keeping data safe
  7. Extremism, radicalisation and terrorism
  8. Managing challenging behaviour or Managing a child's anger
  9. Neurodevelopmental disorders (new for 2024): Autism spectrum disorder, Caring for a child with Down’s Syndrome, Caring for a child with a learning disability, Caring for a child with dyslexia, or Introduction to Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
  10. Foster carer records

You are expected to complete these courses every 3 years, apart from the Keeping data safe which is yearly. Here are the shortcuts to the courses: