Safeguarding SIG

Please note that the materials on this page may include details of abuse and neglect, which may be triggering for some. If affected, please seek appropriate support from colleagues in school or appropriate professional services.

• Guidance: Keeping children safe in education (DfE)

• Guidance: Working together to safeguard children (DfE)

• Statistics: Children in need (DfE)

• Guidance: Information sharing advice for safeguarding practitioners (DfE)

• Sharing information to safeguard children: Marketing materials (ICO, 2024)

• Guidance: Prevent duty (Home Office, 2023)

• Guidance: Channel and Prevent Multi-Agency Panel (PMAP) (Home Office, 2021)

• Guidance: Forced marriage (FC&DO & Home Office)

• Guidance: Female genital mutilation (FGM): migrant health (OHID)

• Guidance: Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation (Home Office)

• Guidance: Child sexual exploitation: definition and guide for practitioners (DfE, 2017)

• Guidance: Multi-agency Practice Principles for responding to child exploitation and extra-familial harm (Research in Practice)

• Guidance: Young people and self-harm (NSPCC)

• Guidance: Supporting young carers in schools (Carer's Trust & Children's Society, 2022)

• Research Briefing: Young carers in education (UK Parliament, 2025)

• Report: Viewing Generative AI and children’s safety in the round (NSPCC, 2025)

• Report: Unseen Sacrifices: understanding the educational disadvantages faced by young carers (Mytime Young Carers, 2023)

• Report: Children and families' experiences of multi-agency support when impacted by serious youth violence (Safer London, 2024)

• Report: Child C Serious Case Review (Waltham Forest Safeguarding Children Board, 2020)

• Report: Help, protection, education: concluding the Children in Need review (DfE, 2019)

• Report: Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges (Ofsted, 2021)

• Report: Allegations of abuse against teachers and non-teaching staff (DfE, 2012)

• Literature Review: What works to improve the educational outcomes of Children in Need of help and protection (DfE, 2018)

• Systematic Review: A Systematic Review of the Impact of Placement Instability on Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes Among Children in Foster Care (Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 2024)

• Article: Childhood neglect, the neglected trauma. A systematic review and meta-analysis of its prevalence in psychiatric disorders (Psychiatry Research, 2024)

• Blog: The Dark Side of AI: Risks to Children (Child Rescue Coalition) 

Please note that the materials on this page may include details of abuse and neglect, which may be triggering for some. If affected, please seek appropriate support from colleagues in school or appropriate professional services.

• Video: Contextual Safeguarding: An Introductory Webinar (GCCS, 2020)

• Webinar: KCSIE 1 - Low level concerns (DfE, 2023)

• Webinar: KCSIE 2 - Single Central Record (DfE, 2023)

• Webinar: KCSIE 3 - Sexting/Online harm (DfE, 2023)

• Webinar: KCSIE 4 - Safeguarding Partners (DfE, 2023)

• Podcast: Serious youth violence: not just a 'city problem' (Ofsted, 2024)

• Podcast: Ofsted‘s Sexual Abuse Review (Ofsted, 2021)

Please note that the materials on this page may include details of abuse and neglect, which may be triggering for some. If affected, please seek appropriate support from colleagues in school or appropriate professional services.

• Prevent duty training (DfE, 2022)

• Cybersecurity training for school staff (NSCS, 2021)

(coming soon)

Guidance Documents

• Putting Evidence to Work (Implementation Guidance) (EEF, 2024)

Videos

• A schools' guide to Implementation - Animation (EEF, 2024)

• Newham Learning: Implementation (Newham Learning, 2022)

Templates

• Action plan template (pdf)

• Action plan template (docx)

• Case study template (pdf)

• Case study template (pptx)

(coming soon)

(coming soon)