Compliance

Find the latest statutory guidance and understand how it affects your school, from updates to key DfE documents to brand-new legislation

Wednesday

7th Jul 2021

Tougher safeguarding rules: All teachers need to know
‘Strengthened’ DfE safeguarding guidance covers sexual violence and harassment, peer-on-peer abuse and nude images

Tuesday

29th Jun 2021

Banned: Teacher who asked pupil to be his girlfriend
The teacher claimed that there was a pause between the words ‘girl’ and ‘friend’

Monday

28th Jun 2021

Sex harassment: How Ofsted inspections will change
Schools will be judged ‘ineffective’ where they do not have adequate processes to deal with sexual harassment

Thursday

24th Jun 2021

Many schools at risk of ‘critical data loss’
Nearly one in five schools do not retain offline backups of critical data, or are unable to say whether they do, study finds

Monday

21st Jun 2021

Is the DfE deliberately ignoring pupils with SEND?
The experiences of pupils with special educational needs and disability are consistently overlooked – there’s no greater disadvantage than being ignored, says Christopher Rossiter

Monday

14th Jun 2021

Everyone’s Invited: Does shaming schools help anyone?
No one can deny the impact of Everyone’s Invited – but shame isn’t a good driver for constructive change, says Anki Deo

Saturday

12th Jun 2021

TikTok: the new frontier for safeguarding issues
Is it a fun site to share silly dances, or place where children are putting themselves at risk? Joshua Lowe explores...

Friday

11th Jun 2021

‘Sex abuse in schools is an issue that shames us all’
Sexual harassment is a feature of every school and every college – but we can’t fix the problem alone, says Geoff Barton

Thursday

10th Jun 2021

Tough online law ‘needed to fight pupil harassment’
Tech companies must be compelled to do more to protect pupils under new online harms law, says NSPCC

Wednesday

9th Jun 2021

Exclusive: Boys’ sexual misconduct not down to teachers
Most people believe parents, not teachers, should be held accountable for sexual harassment by boys, poll shows

Sunday

6th Jun 2021

At-risk children may have been unlawfully held - report
Children’s commissioner Bruce Adamson found that young people were detained for up to 572 days

Wednesday

19th May 2021

Masks: We may be guinea pigs, but I can hear pupils now
Despite concerns about the Indian variant, there are aspects of the decline of the mask that make me happy, says Sarah Ledger