Working together to keep our children safe is crucial. With new safeguarding guidance for schools, Matt Bawden considers how safeguarding training and practice links into a school’s vision and values

This September sees the implementation of renewed statutory guidance from the Department for Education (DfE) on safeguarding.

As usual all our staff will have to be trained in Keeping Children Safe in Education (Part 1). The KCSIE guidance has been updated after consultation, with the new documents having been published in May.

Every year photocopiers everywhere strain to print all 20-plus pages for every member of staff, and in most cases a slightly beleaguered safeguarding lead tries to impress the key messages on to the assembled masses on the first INSET day of the new school year.

The success with which this is done depends on many things, not least the degree to which such views of safeguarding chime with the school’s vision and values.

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