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Department for Education

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022: for schools and colleges

Published: 1st September 2022

This is statutory guidance for schools and colleges. It contains information on what they must do and how to comply in order to keep children safe. It sets out their legal duty of what is expected when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

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Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022: Part 1

Published: 1st September 2022

Governing bodies and proprietors should ensure that those staff who work directly with children read and understand at least Part one of this guidance. Governing bodies with their SLT/DSL should ensure that those staff who do not work directly with children read either Part one or Annex A (a condensed version of Part one) of this guidance.

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Inspecting Safeguarding in Early Years, Education and Skills Settings

Published: 1st September 2022

The guidance sets out what inspectors must consider when inspecting safeguarding. It outlines the evidence that inspectors will look for during inspections and sets out the judgements they will make.  It should be read alongside the education inspection framework (EIF) and the individual remit inspection handbooks.

Early years settings, schools and further education and skills providers should be safe environments where children, learners and vulnerable adults can learn and develop. Inspectors should consider how well their leaders and managers have created a culture of vigilance, where children’s and learners’ welfare is promoted and where timely and appropriate safeguarding action is taken for children or learners who need extra help or who may be suffering, or likely to suffer, harm.

Inspectors must evaluate how well early years settings, schools, colleges and other further education and skills providers fulfil their statutory and other responsibilities and how well staff exercise their professional judgement in keeping children and learners safe.

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Guidance for safer working practice for those working with children and young people in education settings.

Published: February 2022 - Safer Recruitment Consortium

The statutory guidance, Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 state that, ‘all staff should be provided with a staff behaviour policy (code of conduct) as part of their induction procedures.’

This guidance provides a clear message of which behaviours constitute safe practice and which behaviours should be avoided. It may be considered as the basis of your code conduct/staff behaviour guidelines to help you meet this requirement.

The updated guidance by the Safer Recruitment Consortium, has been recommended by the DfE as providing detailed and practical advice to schools and colleges as reflected in the forward by Edward Timpson – Minister for Children and Families.

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HM Government

Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 – A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children

Published: Last updated 9th December 2020. Although updated, the guidance continues to carry its 2018 published date.

The guidance has been updated with factual changes in relation to information sharing, homelessness duty and references to domestic abuse. This guidance applies to all organisations and agencies who have functions relating to children. It applies, in its entirety, to all schools.

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Information Sharing Guidance – Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers

Published: July 2018 - HM Government

This HM Government advice is non-statutory, and has been produced to support practitioners in the decisions they take to share information, which reduces the risk of harm to children and young people and promotes their well-being. This guidance does not deal in detail with arrangements for bulk or pre-agreed sharing of personal information between IT systems or organisations other than to explain their role in effective information governance. This guidance has been updated to reflect the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018, and it supersedes the HM Government Information sharing: guidance for practitioners and managers published in March 2015.

The GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 do not prevent, or limit, the sharing of information for the purposes of keeping children and young people safe. (Information Sharing (2018) Page 5)

The guidance says, 'Remember that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Data Protection Act 2018 and human rights law are not barriers to justified information sharing, but provide a framework to ensure that personal information about living individuals is shared appropriately.'

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HM Government

What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused – Advice for practitioners

Published: March 2015 - HM Government

This non-statutory advice and has been produced to help practitioners identify child abuse and neglect and take appropriate action in response. This advice replaces the previous version of What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused, published in 2006, and complements Working Together to Safeguard Children (2015) statutory guidance.

‘Practitioners are in a unique position to be able to observe signs of abuse or neglect, or changes in behaviour which may indicate a child may be being abused or neglected. The guidance reiterates that you should make sure that you are alert to the signs of abuse and neglect, that you question the behaviour of children and parents/carers and don’t necessarily take what you are told at face value. You should make sure you know where to turn to if you need to ask for help, and that you refer to children’s social care or to the police, if you suspect that a child is at risk of harm or is immediate danger.’

The guidance emphasises the importance of understanding and working within the local multi-agency safeguarding arrangements that are in place in your area.

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'Safeguarding children - the action we take to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm - is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play. '

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