Here you will find resources for you and your teams if they're new to safeguarding.
Statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education states that:
'All staff should receive appropriate safeguarding and child protection training which is regularly updated. In addition, all staff should receive safeguarding and child protection updates (for example, via email, e-bulletins and staff meetings), as required, and at least annually, to provide them with relevant skills and knowledge to safeguard children effectively.'
All school settings should comply with this, if you are an out of school setting you should be working to this expectation as good practice.
Whilst there are lots of materials and courses out there, it's important to consider the following:
1. Keep up to date: Society and individuals are constantly changing. Often tragic events, changes in public policy and learning can impact on your practice. Safeguarding knowledge should be regularly updated to ensure that colleagues are able to respond effectively to an ever changing social need.
2. Break it up: Many colleagues often undertake training on the first days back from the summer holidays, by the time the next academic year comes around memory of training may have diminished. Do think about revisiting materials throughout the year. You can use the other topical safeguarding resources pages to assist you with this.
3. Make it relevant: Lots of training materials are often generalised to support a basic understanding and reach large audiences. It's important that you contextualise/localise knowledge to your situation. For instance, ensure you consider the demographics of your learners and the varying impact different issues may cause.
The Safeguarding in Education Team produce training packages for the workforce which is localised to resonate with priorities, both locally and nationally, through the Local Safeguarding Partnership. We often use the results of the previous s.175 Audit to reflect the need locally.
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If you want to break it up and deliver it in modules click here a split version.
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