Safeguarding

The latest news, analysis and professional advice on keeping children safe, including new legislation, KCSIE updates, case studies from DSLs and more

Tuesday

1st Apr 2025

Why supervision is critical as safeguarding incidents rise
As schools support increasing numbers of pupils through trauma, it is essential that we provide supervision to give staff a safe space for reflection, says this head of safeguarding
Image of child behind frosted glass

Friday

28th Mar 2025

Why we need a mandatory safeguarding qualification
The introduction of a standardised qualification for designated safeguarding leads would improve children’s safety and better professionalise the role, sector experts tell Ellen Peirson-Hagger
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Tuesday

25th Mar 2025

Nord Anglia announces major safeguarding appointments
International schools group says the fresh leadership expertise will ‘strengthen our safeguarding culture’
Nord Anglia announces major safeguarding leadership appointments

Thursday

20th Mar 2025

International schools group’s bid to make schools ‘vape-free zones’
The zero-tolerance approach will see detectors installed in schools and random bag checks, as well as anti-vaping education for all students
International schools group’s bid to make schools ‘vape-free zones’

Wednesday

19th Mar 2025

Are your male students caught in ‘the manosphere’?
Online misogyny is a growing problem, further highlighted by recent TV drama Adolescence. Safeguarding lead Thomas Michael explores three key terms school staff should understand
Safeguarding: are your male students caught in ‘the manosphere’?

Tuesday

18th Mar 2025

Labour MPs block Tory bid to ban mobile phones in schools
Measures are already in place to allow schools to ban phones, says education minister
child on phone with red case

Friday

14th Mar 2025

Social media being ‘weaponised’ against schools and teachers
ASCL president tells conference that tech billionaires should be forced to protect pupils from the dangers of their technology
A leading figure in a headteachers' union will call on social media platforms to be brought to heel.

Thursday

13th Mar 2025

What DSLs need to know about race, racism and safeguarding
The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s latest report on how children from Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage backgrounds experience safeguarding processes contains vital insights for leaders, says Luke Ramsden
Race, racism and safeguarding: 5 issues DSLs need to know

Thursday

6th Mar 2025

4 ways to discuss affluent neglect with parents
A leader in China offers guidance on how to tackle the tricky topic of neglect with parents who, on the surface, provide their children with everything they could need
Child looking at chalk drawing of a family

Wednesday

5th Mar 2025

Behaviour overtakes workload as a top concern for primary teachers
Teachers in primary are also more worried about support for pupils’ social, emotional and mental health needs, research shows
Primary school boy annoyed

Tuesday

11th Feb 2025

2 in 3 teachers lack allergy awareness training
Poll reveals almost all teachers have pupils with allergies in school, but less than a third have allergy awareness training
Table with a variety of allergenic foods

Monday

10th Feb 2025

Raise age limits for social media, say primary teachers
Teachers want social media platforms to make safety controls easier to use and children’s access to be linked to parent or carer accounts
Raise social media age thresholds, say primary teachers
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