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This week's Safeguarding Bulletin is out!

- KCSiE 2026 information version published
- Free KCSIE 2026 webinars
- Order your 2026/27 DSL Planner and Academic DSL Diary
- New statutory guidance published: Allergy safety in schools
- New social media ban support hub
- Pilot Anna Freud's new healthy relationship resources
- On the blog: DfE's open consultation on ‘Improving help and child protection: revised framework’
- Ofsted consults on strengthening children's social care inspections
- Helping schools take action on racist bullying

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Aligning with statutory guidance like KCSiE and Working Together, the diary is designed to help DSLs organise their time while embedding safeguarding into daily practice, not as an “add-on.”

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Safeguarding is about more than checks, certificates & training records. Sharon Birch explores why professional curiosity, a strong safeguarding culture & the confidence to challenge concerns are the most effective tools in protecting children.

Whenever a safeguarding failure makes the headlines, we always ask the questions...

Was there training? Was the right vetting carried out? What did the DBS or Enhanced DBS certificate say? Were references obtained? How far did the checks go? What was the training like? Was it sufficient? Did everyone have it?

These are important questions and they should be asked. Vetting and training are absolutely essential ingredients in the safeguarding of children. All of it is essential. However, these things are not foolproof and only ever show that someone has not come to notice previously...

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Click the link to watch the recording of a webinar we recently ran in conjunction with the Department for Education (DfE).

This webinar provided an overview of the proposed changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026 and their implications for Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs). DfE representatives outlined key updates across all five sections of KCSIE, including the removal of Annex A so that all staff are expected to read Part 1, a stronger emphasis on early identification of safeguarding risks, family help, mental health, serious violence, misogyny, AI-related risks, multi-agency working, and enhanced information sharing.

The session also highlighted significant changes to regulated activity from September 2026, requiring additional safeguarding checks for certain volunteers following the removal of the supervision exemption. Part 5 has been restructured to help schools assess and respond to harmful sexual behaviour using a more evidence-based, continuum approach.

Throughout, speakers emphasised that these are still proposed changes pending publication of the final KCSIE 2026 guidance and encouraged schools to begin considering the potential impact on policies, training, recruitment practices and safeguarding procedures whilst showing insight into the thinking behind the proposed changes.

Click to view: https://zurl.co/qjNBU