You will have seen media reports that the Department for Education is about to publish its draft updated statutory guidance on relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) for a consultation as early as this week. The standard consultation period for such guidance is twelve weeks, after which the government will need to consider submitted evidence before publishing final guidance at some point thereafter and providing schools with adequate time to implement the changes. This is in line with its commitment to review the guidance every three years.
The government has recently published a new guidance document helping schools to prepare for serious incidents. Although schools are often encouraged to consider potential threats from external sources, two recent serious incidents in south Wales and Sheffield remind us that threats can come from inside the school too.
The Department for Education is consulting on proposals to strengthen protections for children in unregistered alternative provision settings.
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We are excited to announce the date of our next GCP2 Practice Surgery – Thursday 20th June! This session will provide a refresher on scoring GCP2 in practice.
You are not Alone! Come along to our GCP2 Practice Surgery and join other colleagues using the tool – this is a fantastic opportunity to ask GCP2 questions and share ideas with other practitioners from around the UK.
Life Lessons have partnered with the NSPCC in order to support schools with safeguarding and behaviour across the UK and that we are well placed to support your school.
The National Crime Agency has issued an alert to hundreds of thousands of education professionals following a considerable increase in global cases of financially motivated sexual extortion – a type of online blackmail widely known as ‘sextortion’.
Termly update of local and national developments in the safeguarding field.
An update of upcoming courses from the Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership April 2024
Free online parenting courses are available to help parents and carers understand their children's feelings better and how they can support their children through the years as they develop and grow.
Separating parents can now download a free app to help them self--manage their separation. manage their separation.
From 19th August 2024, there will be new regulations for schools in the next stage of the government’s attendance drive. The sharing of daily school registers will form a new world-leading attendance data set that will help schools spot and support children displaying worrying trends of persistent absence or those in danger of becoming missing in education.
The IWF and NSPCC say tech platforms must do more to protect children online as confirmed sextortion cases soar. Article and resources to support the Report Remove Tool.
This call for evidence is therefore deliberately broad and seeks to reflect areas and issues that have been shared by school and college safeguarding professionals, or where wider systemic changes mean we have an opportunity to better align school and college safeguarding policy, including the findings of Ofsted's ‘Big Listen.’
The DfE commissioned Revealing Reality to carry out research to understand how special and alternative provision schools in England currently use reasonable force, including physical restraint and other restrictive practices, and to learn what these schools believe works to effectively minimise the need to use such methods.
The DfE continue to hold online Prevent awareness sessions for FE/skills staff. The sessions cover all of the important issues that staff need to know for Prevent .
Links to live investigations of critical incidents in Bristol
In light of the recent sad events and loss of life of children in Bristol, this page collates the support and guidance for colleagues who work in education settings.
The Government has launched a national attendance communications campaign aimed at parents and carers. The campaign will take place January-March 2024 and remind families that moments matter, attendance counts.
Ahead of the January 2024 school census return, Carers Trust, MYTIME Young Carers & The Children’s Society have written a letter to headteachers asking for their help to ensure young carers are identified, supported and recorded in the school census return.