1. Keeping Children Safe in Education 2018
The key changes

2. Main changes Peer on peer abuse contextual safeguarding County Lines
DSLs and file transfer
Reasonable force
Children and the criminal system
Governor checks
The SCR
Referring to the DBS
Volunteers and RA
Alternative Provision
Host families
Additions re: MAT

3. Key changes relevant to today
Peer on peer abuse
Contextual safeguarding
County Lines
DSLs and file transfer
Reasonable force
Children and the criminal system

4. Peer on peer abuse
Strenghtened in KCSIE 2018: paras and part 5 (child on child sexual abuse and child sexual violence)
Strong focus at today’s conference

5. Contextual Safeguarding
Contextual safeguarding is an approach to safeguarding children and young people which responds to their experience of harm outside the home
Significant for today’s conference, expertise of our guest speakers from the University of Bedfordshire

6. DSLs and file transfers
‘Receiving schools and colleges should ensure key staff such as designated safeguarding leads and SENCOs or the named person with oversight for SEN in a college, are aware as required’.

7. DSLs and file transfer
‘In addition to the child protection file, the designated safeguarding lead should also consider if it would be appropriate to share any appropriate information with the new school or college in advance of a child leaving. For example, information which would allow the new school or college to continue supporting victims of abuse and have that support in place for when the child arrives’.

8. Reasonable force
Nothing new to education, but worth noting that it now appears in KCSIE and the message that sends

9. Children and the Criminal System
Court orders in place between parents to clarify contact arrangements
Pupils entering the criminal system

10. Safeguarding Resources
Safeguarding Strategy
Safeguarding Policy
Child Protection Policy
Range of other resources
Available at

11. Learning from audits
Online safety and sexting audit will be shared today
Prevent audit
Safeguarding audit/visits

12. Local issues/focus Vigilance around knife crime
Journeys to and from school – keeping safe
Toxic trio (mental health/substance misuse/domestic abuse)… parenting capacity reduced the more issues there are
Keeping health issues cited (individual health plans)
Contextual Safeguarding/peer on peer abuse
Preventing radicalisation and extremism
Ensure swift referrals … within an hour!
File transfer
Attendance

13. LA issues relevant to education
Ensure that strategy discussions and core groups are consistently effective as forums for sharing information, identifying risks and prompting appropriate action.
Ensure that the local authority designated officer is provided with an effective system for monitoring and recording allegations, one which facilitates external scrutiny.