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Free training course aims to improve safer sleep in 1,000 nurseries

19 July 2026 · Nursery World

A practical look at a current training-sector story relevant to learner communication and course operations.

Original source: Nursery World

The launch of a free training course aiming to improve safer sleep practices in UK nurseries is a welcome initiative for childcare providers looking to enhance their commitment to child welfare. For practical business owners, this development highlights the importance of investing in staff training and upskilling to meet regulatory requirements and ensure a safe environment for young children.

This article is based on a current RSS news item and is intended as a practical note for readers following this topic.

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Supporting evidence: the safer-sleep training offer is verified

Realise Early Years' current programme page states that it has partnered with The Lullaby Trust to offer free safer-sleep training to 1,000 early-years professionals across England. The training is delivered by The Lullaby Trust and is designed for nursery managers, baby-room practitioners and other early-years staff working directly with babies.

The published offer is one funded place per nursery. That is narrower than saying every staff member in every nursery receives free training, so providers should preserve that distinction when describing the initiative.

A Cheshire East early-years bulletin independently repeated the same programme details in July 2026, including the Realise–Lullaby Trust partnership, the 1,000-place scale and the one-place-per-nursery arrangement. This gives the article a second public source beyond the original nursery-sector headline.

For training providers, the evidence supports a practical lesson: funded specialist training can widen access and strengthen safeguarding knowledge, but participation in one external course should not be presented as a substitute for the provider's wider statutory, policy or organisational responsibilities.

Evidence boundary: the sources verify the partnership, free funded places, target audience and one-place-per-nursery structure. They do not establish completion numbers, measured safeguarding outcomes or universal regulatory compliance resulting from the course.

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