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Keeping Children Safe in Education – Sept 2018
New statutory guidance, published by the DfE, replacing KCSIE 2016, came into effect on September 3rd 2018.
The document sets out the legal duties with which schools and colleges must comply and also contains information on what schools and colleges should do (unless they have good reason not to) in order to keep children safe.
In the last version of Keeping Children Safe in Education (2016) schools were told that they should take into account the safeguarding needs of children with SEN and Disabilities. This guidance goes a little bit further and underlines what that means.
Other key changes including are around:
- Contextual Safegaurding
- Peer-on-Peer Abuse
- Sexual Harassment and Violence
- Contact Numbers
- Use of Reasonable Force
and the required Safeguarding Learning and Development of all Staff
Keeping Children Safe in Education Part 1 has to be read by all members of the staff; and for everyone working directly with children, they also need to read Annex A.
Annex A now includes four key topics that were not included previously:
- Children and the court system, when children are appearing as witnesses;
- Children will family members in prison;
- Criminal Exploitation of children (County Lines); and
- Homelessness
The next steps for all Schools and Colleges should be:
Next Steps
- Update the safeguarding and learning development programme for your staff
- Update your child protection policy
- Check that there is more than one emergency contact number for the children
- Create and complete risk assessments for volunteers
- Check that all Section 128 checks have been completed for any departmental heads
- Obtain written confirmation from Alternative Providers that they have completed relevant checks
- Check any future home-stay arrangements include Enhanced DBS checks for parents where overseas pupils stay
We can provide your statutory level 2 Safeguarding training.
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Training Req for Involvement updated May 2018
July 2018
Are you OFSTED-ready in terms of your Safeguarding obligations?
Do all adults who work in your school know their responsibilities for keeping children safe?
Are your staff confident in their knowledge and understanding of their responsibilities with regard to the PREVENT strategy, Child Sexual Exploitation and Female Gentital Mutilation?
If not, contact us!
We can provide Tier Two Safeguarding training and consultancy to support you to ensure Safeguarding in your school is outstanding.
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September 2016
Make sure all your staff are aware of the latest ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ document published in September 2016.
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Following a Serious Case Review on Child Exploitation in Oxfordshire, David Cameron said:
“UK child sexual exploitation is a ‘national threat…We have got to really resolve that this stops here, it doesn’t happen again and we recognise abuse for what it is.” He added that “if professionals fail, there need to be consequences”.
On March 3rd 2015, Cameron proposed that there should be:
Unlimited fines and criminal proceedings for individuals and organisations shown to have let children down.
Is your school / setting up to date with their safeguarding training?
In April 2014, ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ was published.
Are you aware of the implications this has had for ensuring that you are undertaking your statutory Safeguarding responsibilities?
