Training chiefs are launching a fresh bid to make sure journalism students are properly educated on the issues of safety and resilience.

The National Council for the Training of Journalists is to offer a virtual ‘train the trainer’ workshop to ensure journalism teachers are better equipped to deliver training to students on the subject.

It will be led by Lisa Bradley, pictured, deputy head of the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield, who has put special focus on teaching resilience and trauma in the university’s NCTJ-accredited journalism courses.

All NCTJ-accredited courses are now required to deliver safety and resilience training to meet accreditation performance standards and the launch of the workshop comes after recent research indicated that training providers would welcome more support from the NCTJ and industry on the issue.

Lisa said: “I’m delighted to see the issues and safety and resilience in newsrooms being given such a spotlight by the NCTJ and the support to centres in being able to deliver this vital training.

“It’s a difficult topic to broach from both the students’ and the tutors’ point of view and a tricky act to balance.

“Journalism was, is, and will always be an incredible career and privilege to be a part of, so the last thing anyone wants is to unsettle those training for the industry.

“The purpose is the opposite, to risk proof the next generation and ensure they continue to deliver high quality journalism to the nation, with resilience, confidence and fortitude.”

NCTJ vice-chairwoman Joanna Webster added: “Safety and resilience is a broad and complex topic with many different layers so it is understandable that some courses are finding teaching this subject a challenge.

“As an industry, we need to collaborate on this issue and ensure that information is also disseminated to the course leaders and tutors.”

The workshop will take place on Thursday 9 November from 10am to 1pm.