Spring term update

Essential Safeguarding Documents

There are nine essential safeguarding documents that need to be taken into account when planning safeguarding in your school. Some of the safeguarding documents are statutory, some non-statutory.

The documents listed below are all within the member’s section of our website

Working together to Safeguard Children

Keeping Children Safe in Education

Prevent Duty Guidance (HM Government)

Prevent Duty(DFE)

What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused

Governors Handbook

Statutory Policies for schools

Guidance for Safer working practice

REVISED Guidance for Safer Working Practice for Adults who work with Children and Young People in Education 2015 (This document is in the staff section on our website)

Keeping Children Safe (July 2015) states that schools must have a staff code of conduct. Many schools based their code on a guidance document issued in 2009: Guidance for Safer Working Practice for Adults who work with Children and Young People in Education. This document was archived by the government.

Safer Working Practices has now been updated by the Safer Recruitment Consortium made up ofNSPCC,Lucy Faithfull Foundation,National Association of Special Schools andChild Protection in Educationfoundation. The guidance has been broughtup-to-datewith all the changes to legislation andguidance, andnow includes new sections on:

  • Educational visits
  • Personal Living accommodation Inc. onsite provision
  • Overnight Supervision and Examinations
  • Curriculum (sensitive topics)
  • Whistle-blowing

FGM Materials

The Home Office are offeringFREEFGM Support Materials. You can access an electronic request formHERE. Once complete this form needs to be sent to:

Governance Handbook

The DfE have launched 'The Governance Handbook - Nov 2015' - Guidance for Trustees of Academies and Multi Academy Trusts & Governors of Maintained Schools. You can download this guidance from the governor’s section with the member’s area

Statutory guidance on keeping children safe in education is to be updated to include specific duties tackling radicalisation and sexual exploitation.

The Department for Education (DfE) has launched a consultation on how the existing 2015 guidance, entitled Keeping Children Safe in Education, should be updated.

The updates include the need to have appropriate filters and monitoring systems to prevent children accessing harmful content via their school’s IT systems and so that “concerns can be spotted quickly”.

The new guidance would also require schools to teach their pupils about safeguarding, including online safeguarding.

On radicalisation, the new guidance includes references to the Prevent Duty and its implications for schools, including the procedures schools must have in place to protect those at risk.

The document also includes updates to reflect the most recent definitions and signs of child sexual exploitation.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan said online safety at school and at home was a priority. She added: “This includes ensuring young people know how to use the internet responsibly and that parents and teachers have the right measures in place to keep children safe from exploitation or radicalisation.”

At the same time, the DfE has also promised new training, due to be launched soon, for professionals working with children, including nurses and teachers. This will focus on handling online risks and supporting young people in the digital world.

Parents guide on keeping safe online

A parents’ guide on keeping their children safe online has been produced by the UK’s Council for Child Internet Safety, entitled Child Online Safety. The National Crime Agency’s thinkuknow website has also been updated with refreshed advice and guidance for parents and carers on preventing their children from becoming victims of sexual abuse and exploitation, both online and in the “real world”.

Further information

  • The consultation closes on February 16. For details, visit
  • To download the Child Online Safety parental guide, go to
  • The thinkuknow website is at

Service development

CES has now been operating for over 15 months and we continue to improve our offer to our schools to ensure that all schools get the maximum value for money. Since September we have trained over 2000 staff in basic safeguarding, delivered 28 Governors sessions, trained over 145 Designated staff and run 25 Prevent sessions.

We are looking to develop further support for parents and pupils around the Safeguarding agenda, recently we piloted a ‘protective parent‘course in one of our schools. The 6 weekly course covers key safeguarding areas to raise awareness for parents and carers. We are making these resources available for schools.

I would welcome your feedback on the service we provide and also any areas that you feel we could develop to support schools in the future.

Thank you for your continued support

Regards

Ian Clennell CES

Training

Spring Training Programme
Date / Time / Session / Course Content / Who should attend? / Location
Fri 29th Jan / 9:00am – 4:00pm
(lunch provided) / Designated Person Safeguarding Training /
  • Thresholds
  • Role
  • Allegations against staff
  • Record keeping
/ New designated persons. / Holiday Inn
Jesmond Road
Newcastle
NE2 1PR
Wed 3rd Feb / 2:00pm – 4:00pm / PREVENT BRIEFING
(Peter Thompson) /
  • Context
  • School role
  • Understanding the agenda
/ Any staff particularly those in:
Management
Outreach / Community based workers
Governors / Venue to be confirmed subject to numbers
Fri 5th Feb / Session 1: 10:30am – 12:30pm
Session 2: 1:00pm – 3:00pm / Designated Person Refresher Training
(Peter Thompson & Carmen Slade) / -Effective Record Keeping (1x hour)
-PREVENT (1x Hour) / Designated Persons / Holiday Inn
Jesmond Road
Newcastle
NE2 1PR
Tues 9th Feb / 9:30am – 11:30am / Safeguarding Workshops for parents – Train the trainer
(Paula Stones) / ‘Protective Parenting’
A workshop on how you can deliver the PP programme to parents within your setting. / Outreach Workers including
-PSAs
-Family Support
-Attendance
Welfare Staff / CES Base Kenton School
(College Block)
Ryal Walk
Newcastle
NE3 3YF
Wed 10thFeb / 9:30am-11:30am / Designated Person Refresher Training
(Peter Thompson & Carmen Slade) / -Effective Record Keeping (1x hour)
-PREVENT (1x Hour) / Designated Persons / CES Base Kenton School
(College Block)
Ryal Walk
Newcastle
NE3 3YF
Wed 10th Feb / 1:30pm -3:00pm / Safer recruitment training
Refresher session /
  • Background and context to safer recruitment
  • Understanding abusers and identifying risk
  • Identifying key features of staff recruitment that can help deter or prevent the appointment of unsuitable people
  • Identifying strategies to create an ongoing culture of vigilance beyond initial recruitment
/ Please note participants must have previously undertaken a full training session:
Staff responsible for recruitment / DBS Checks:
HR staff
Admin
Governors
Business Managers
SLT / CES Base Kenton School
(College Block)
Ryal Walk
Newcastle
NE3 3YF
Thurs11 Feb / Session 1 9:00 – 12:00
Session 2 1:00-4:00 / Working with Loss and Grief in schools
(Kalmer Counselling service) /
  • Understand the grieving process and the impact on children and young people’s Mental Health and emotional wellbeing.
  • Insight into a child capacity to process death
  • Understand the impact of Loss and Grief on children’s behaviour and their barriers to learning
  • Clinical case discussion
  • Interventions/ strategies to support grieving children.
/ Any staff carrying out home visits / working in the community including:
-PSAs
-Family Support
-Attendance
-Welfare Staff
-Pastoral Staff
-Nursery Teachers / Holiday Inn
Jesmond Road
Newcastle
NE2 1PR
Thurs 25 Feb / 10:00am-11:30am / Safer recruitment training
Refresher session /
  • Background and context to safer recruitment
  • Understanding abusers and identifying risk
  • Identifying key features of staff recruitment that can help deter or prevent the appointment of unsuitable people
  • Identifying strategies to create an ongoing culture of vigilance beyond initial recruitment
/ Please note participants must have previously undertaken a full training session:
Staff responsible for recruitment / DBS Checks:
HR staff
Admin
Governors
Business Managers
SLT / CES Base Kenton School
(College Block)
Ryal Walk
Newcastle
NE3 3YF
Wed 2nd March / Session 1: 9:30am – 11:00am
Session 2: 1:00pm – 2:30pm / Effective Record Keeping
(Carmen Slade) / -How to record effectively
-The importance of recording
-Serious case reviews
-The pitfalls of recording / Any staff including:
-Teachers
-Support staff
-Outreach
-Management
-Admin / CES Base Kenton School
(College Block)
Ryal Walk
Newcastle
NE3 3YF
Thu 3rd March / Session 1: 9:00am – 10:30am
Session 2: 11:00am – 12:30pm / CPOMS Support Session / A briefing from a CPOMs representative to answer any queries, give demonstrations, highlight how to get the best out of the system. / Staff currently using the CPOMS system / CES Base Kenton School
(College Block)
Ryal Walk
Newcastle
NE3 3YF

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