Looking after the most vulnerable in our society is the responsibility of every single one of us.
Our range of multi-agency safeguarding training courses are suitable for all statutory, voluntary and independent staff who work with children, young people, families and vulnerable adults.
We’re not just any training agency. All our trainers have worked on the frontline in relation to safeguarding issues. They have first-hand experience and knowledge in how best to spot the signs that something is wrong, and how to deal with it when your suspicions are raised.
Our Courses
We strongly recommend that participants complete the ‘Working together to safeguard children’ course before attending our advanced level courses.
Foundation level courses
Making a positive contribution to conferencing and core groups
Working together to safeguard children
Working together to safeguard children refresher
Children and adults at risk
Advanced level courses
Safeguarding Skills for Managers
Safeguarding skills
CSE for practitioner
CSE for managers
Forced marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and honour based violence
Neglect Online safety
Sexual abuse: dispelling myths and reducing risks
The impact of parental mental health
Understanding parental learning disability: engaging effectively and managing the risk
Impact of Parental Substance Abuse
The OTC team
Linda O’Neill
Linda is our managing director.
She develops our bespoke training packages to meet all organisational needs and is passionate about improving outcomes for children, young people, vulnerable adults and their families. This can be achieved through the high quality and tailored training packages that OTC offers.
With a background in finance and having spent many years in senior management roles in the UK and Australia, Linda has experience in leadership and strategic critical business decision making.
She is chairwoman of the local governing body within a local SEND school and also as a director for a multi-academy trust. She believes strong governance, training and leadership are key to ensuring a child-centred approach to all teaching.
Linda is Safer Recruitment Consortium Trained.
Patrick O’Neill
Patrick spent 25 years as a serving police officer with West Yorkshire Police, where he had numerous senior roles including Head of Child Protection, with responsibility for protecting children and vulnerable adults including the effective management of dangerous and sexual offenders.
Patrick implemented the Force Safeguarding Strategy ensuring there was a positive approach to child safeguarding (including child sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect and child sexual exploitation), adult safeguarding (including domestic abuse and abuse of vulnerable adults) and public protection.
Patrick was directly involved in the multi-agency approach to safeguarding primarily through local safeguarding partnerships, preventing offences, robustly managing dangerous offenders and providing high level support to victims.
From the Blog
Dates for the Diary 2026
3 to 8 February 2026 – Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Week 9 to 15 February 2026 – Children’s Mental Health Week 6 February 2026 – International Day of Zero Tolerance of FGM 10 February 2026 – Safer Internet Day
The Children Act 1989
The Children Act 1989 Children’s Services are expected to provide help and support to children in their Local Authority area as part of a continuum: Early Help services. Section 17 of the Children Act 1989 allows assessments to be carried out by a social worker and their line manager to determine: Is this a Child...
Our Responsibility to Safeguard
Looking after the most vulnerable in our society is the responsibility of every single one of us. Our range of multi-agency safeguarding training courses are suitable for all statutory, voluntary and independent staff who work with children, young people, families and vulnerable adults. We’re not just any training agency, we offer a full wraparound service...
Our Clients
OTC were excellent trainers, really presented and facilitated the material brilliantly, thank you so much !!!.
A great session run by Andy at OTC I have attended many of their training sessions previously and the knowledge of the trainers and the delivery of such difficult content was excellent. I always come away from their training with ways to improve my practice in safeguarding.
Extremely informative course run by an individual with great subject knowledge, real life examples meant I was able to associate with them. 5 out of 5
Excellent trainer knowledge with active involvement
The Trainer was great at facilitating such a large group of delegates and all their opinions
I wasn’t looking forward to 6 hours training virtually, however I was pleasantly surprised Linda & Liz mad the day go so quickly with their interaction and great use of breakout rooms for exercises. Really enjoyed the training in what is a difficult subject matter.
Many Thanks
Sarah
A really enjoyable delivery of such a sensitive subject, with a range of different professionals and such a large group the trainer did a brilliant job! Thank you
Really enjoyed the virtual training session conducted by the OTC team, great use of the break out rooms for exercises and networking opportunities . Thanks for a great session
whilst the subject matter is a difficult one ,it is essential that in my role I know more about the impact and what to do when I recognise it.
A great session run by OTC I have attended many of their training sessions previously and the knowledge of the trainers and the delivery of such difficult content was excellent. I always come away from their training with great learning and ways to improve my practice in safeguarding.
