Platform Overview
Safeguarding Learning Online (SLO) is a subscription-based safeguarding training platform serving organisations in the statutory, charitable and community sectors. It is a joint venture between two specialist partners with clearly divided roles: Styles and Faal Safeguarding supply the subject-matter expertise and written content, while Designed Learning Solutions provide the instructional design and digital build.
Content Architecture: Programmes + Modules
The defining structural decision on this platform is a two-tier, mix-and-match content model, distinct from a single fixed curriculum:
- Programmes — integrated packages of several modules, built for a specific sector context:
- Safeguarding in the Heritage Sector
- Safeguarding in Community Groups
- Safeguarding and Community Prison Chaplaincy
- Modules — can be taken standalone or combined into a programme, and the same module can be reused across multiple programmes:
- Core: Foundations for Safeguarding; Responsibilities of Charity Trustees
- Practice (“Safeguarding in Practice” / SiP series): Heritage Settings; Community Groups; Supporting People with Criminal Convictions
Business Model & Ed-Tech Delivery
- B2C and B2B routes: Individuals can self-register and pay per programme/module; organisations can bulk-purchase seats via keycodes distributed to staff/volunteers, with block-booking and reporting features offered as an incentive to onboard whole organisations
- Certification: Automated certificate of completion on finishing a programme/module, shareable with the learner’s organisation
- Device support: Confirmed to run on all devices, with tablet/laptop recommended for the full multimedia/interactive experience
- Accessibility: Site-wide Moodle accessibility toolkit (visual impairment, ADHD, dyslexia, colour-vision profiles, adjustable text/spacing, reading guide/mask, cursor tools) consistent with the wider ecosystem of DLS-associated platforms (also seen on TempusLearning)
Scalable contextual training
This is a genuinely efficient learning design pattern for a niche content domain: core safeguarding knowledge (Foundations) is written once and reused, while sector-specific “practice” modules apply that knowledge to context (heritage sites, community groups, prison chaplaincy, working with people with criminal convictions). It lets the client scale into new sectors by writing one new practice module rather than a whole new curriculum.