Governor Conference June 2018 Safeguarding and Ofsted Where is your evidence?

Ofsted Update From January 2018, we will convert a short inspection to a section 5 inspection (normally within 48 hours) if there are serious concerns about safeguarding, behaviour or the quality of education. Secondly, when there are no significant issues with safeguarding or behaviour, but inspectors identify potential concerns about either the quality of education or leadership and management, the inspection will not convert. Instead, we will publish a letter setting out the school’s strengths and areas for improvement. A section 5 inspection will then take place later, typically within 1 to 2 years, but clearly no later than the statutory timeframe for inspection. This will give the school time to address any weaknesses and seek support from appropriate bodies. In the meantime, the letter will be clear that the school’s current overall effectiveness judgement has not changed, so the school remains ‘good’. In the spring term 2018, inspectors will be working hard to make sure that we visit all good schools that are due a short inspection by July within the statutory, five- year timeframe. In this transition period therefore, for some schools, this will mean a reduced period between the short inspection and any necessary full inspection than the 1 to 2 years set out in the section 8 handbook.

Recent Inspections Culture SCR and Personnel Files Safeguarding/CP Records Case register Training Registers and Certificates Site Security Safeguarding and Attendance Policies

Culture in your school What does this look like in your school? Visibility of safeguarding – Safeguarding Team/ Noticeboards NSPCC resources Visitors to school What does this feel like in your school? Anyone on your premises should be able to sense the high profile of safeguarding Safeguarding section on your website Website Checklist What can I see? What do people say?

Culture in your school Induction Recruitment Does every new member of staff in your school have a comprehensive safeguarding induction? Recruitment Every step of the recruitment process should emphasise the profile of safeguarding in your school Where is your evidence?

Safer Recruitment A Safer Recruitment process Pre-employment vetting https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/550511/Keeping_childre n_safe_in_education.pdf KCSIE Part 3 Safer Recruitment A Safer Recruitment process Pre-employment vetting SCR and Personnel Files Induction Culture

Safeguarding Monitoring Record

Updates Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) September 2018 All staff will need to read and sign to say that they understand the changes and updates Safeguarding Policy September 2018 Updated in line with the changes to KCSIE Evidence of these should be in your autumn term monitoring and minutes of your FGB

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/governance-handbook A Competency Framework for Governance January 2017 Someone on the board – knowledge and skills and effective behaviours (page 15) The requirements relating to the safeguarding of children in education including the Prevent Duty Is confident in their challenge to executive leaders on strategies for monitoring and improving the behaviour and safety for pupils/students The Governance Handbook January 2017 (pages 87 - 91) Paragraph 157 Section 6 Compliance KCSIE and WT both set out that an individual on the board should take leadership responsibility for the organisation’s wider safeguarding arrangements, which include the Prevent duty. However, it is also helpful if everyone on the board has training about safeguarding, to make sure they have the knowledge and information needed to perform their functions and understand their responsibilities

Key Documents and information https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/5505 11/Keeping_children_safe_in_education.pdf Keeping Children Safe in Education September 2016 (KCSIE) Working Together to Safeguard Children 2015 (WT) The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) (pages 15 and 16) Role of the DSL (Annex B pages 59-61) A new common inspection framework: education, skills and early years (link on page 18) Ofsted Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills settings August 2016 (link on page 18) Prevent Duty (link on page 56) Children Missing Education (CME) (link on page 15)

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Key Documents and information From September 3rd https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2 Keeping Children Safe in Education September 2018 (KCSIE) Working Together to Safeguard Children 2015 (WT) (link on page 3) The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) (page18) Role of the DSL (Annex B pages 88-91) A new common inspection framework: education, skills and early years (link on page 21) Ofsted Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills settings August 2016 (link on page 21) Prevent Duty (link on page 82) Children Missing Education (CME) (link on page 17)