The Local Safeguarding Partnership in Bristol is called the Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership (KBSP). To find out more about the partnership please consider visiting the website for:
As an education professional, statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education states:
You can also feedback on agenda items and minutes for meetings. We respectfully request that you consider the working capacity of colleagues who represent your phase who are volunteering their time.
The Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership (KBSP) Education Reference Group is a multiagency reference group, to promote the safety and welfare of children in schools, colleges, and other educational settings and is made up of education professionals (from different phases and sectors) and professionals from statutory agencies working with the education sector to ensure that appropriate policies, practices, procedures, and infrastructure are in place.
The group oversee safeguarding arrangements strategically in the education sector across the city. This involves:
There are phase and sector representatives who are comprised of Head Teachers, Designated Safeguarding Leads and Governors who sit on the group. The meeting is supported by the Safeguarding in Education team as well as other Local Authority Officers.
The group meet 6 times a year (every Bristol school term).
The meeting’s agenda, minutes and briefing notes are available to the workforce. You are invited to engage and submit questions, feedback and queries.
Access the KBSP Members Area to find materials, minutes of meetings, who your phase representative is and the group's Terms of Reference. For log in details please email the safeguardingineducationteam@bristol.gov.uk.
The following strands of work have been identified as Focus Areas for 2025-6: