Safeguarding

Learn everything your school needs to help keep all your students safe. Read on for information about safeguarding, safeguarding children and safeguarding in schools, in depth analysis from Tes Magazine and supporting training and products for your school.

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What is safeguarding?

Safeguarding is what we do to promote the welfare of children and keep them safe from harm. Safeguarding and promoting welfare includes:

  • Ensuring children grow up in circumstances that provide them with safe and effective care

  • Protecting children from maltreatment

  • Preventing impairment of children's mental and physical health or development

  • Taking steps to enable children to have the best outcomes

Safeguarding means taking a variety of actions including identifying and assessing risks, and providing support across all agencies and charities that work with children and young people. Each organisation has a specific role to play in safeguarding, and it's important that they work together to ensure that vulnerable individuals are protected.

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A guide to contextual safeguarding

Children can face risks of harm not only at home but also in their wider environments. Our free guide explains how contextual safeguarding helps schools and safeguarding leads address these risks, providing a clearer picture of how external factors affect children and young people’s safety.

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Safeguarding articles from Tes Magazine

  • 5 major government safeguarding proposals schools should know Tes Magazine image

    5 major government safeguarding proposals schools should know

    From enhanced data sharing to the use of a single identifier for children, here’s how safeguarding will evolve next year.

  • Social media in schools the pros and cons in a changing landscape Tes Magazine image

    Social media in schools: the pros and cons in a changing landscape

    With many schools reassessing their use of social media platforms, Nuzhat Uthmani weighs up the benefits and the potential challenges of having an online presence.

  • My week as chief standards officer at City of London Academies Trust Tes Magazine image

    My week as...chief standards officer at City of London Academies Trust

    In our ‘My Week As’ series, a senior sector leader reveals what a typical week looks like in their role. Here, we talk to Mouhssin Ismail.

  • Call to investigate impact of existing mental health support on pupils Tes Magazine image

    Call to investigate impact of existing mental health support on pupils

    NEU says schools ‘do not have the resources or staff to continue carrying the weight of a broken system’.

  • Do your pupils understand the consequences of their online actions Tes Magazine image

    Do your pupils understand the consequences of their online actions?

    After the spread of misinformation online had disastrous consequences this summer, it’s an ideal time to explore digital responsibility with your pupils.

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    My week as...director of safeguarding at Endeavour Learning Trust

    In our ‘My Week As’ series, a senior sector leader reveals what a typical week looks like in their role. For this article, we talk to Heather Fowler.

  • Safeguarding are your male students caught in the manosphere Tes Magazine image

    Safeguarding: are your male students caught in ‘the manosphere’?

    Online misogyny is a growing problem, and it goes far beyond the rhetoric of Andrew Tate. Safeguarding lead Thomas Michael explores three key terms school staff should understand.

  • 5,000 schools to play non-contact rugby under plan to grow the sport Tes Magazine image

    5,000 schools to play non-contact rugby under plan to grow the sport

    Change comes amid fears over players’ welfare – but full-contact rugby union should be offered for under-15s and up, says review led by MAT chief.

Safeguarding children

All children and young people have a right to be and feel safe in your setting or organisation, and their parents or carers also have a right to expect that their child will be safe in your organisation’s care.

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Safeguarding in schools

It's essential that everybody working in a school understands their safeguarding responsibilities. Here we explain what safeguarding in schools means and why it's so important.

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Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)

Keeping Children Safe in Education is a vital part of safeguarding policy and procedures for education settings. On this page you will learn more about this important statutory guidance from the DfE. You will also find additional support that will help your school to comply with the guidance; helping to create a safe environment for all.

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Safeguarding FAQs

How we can help

We have great tools that can help you to safeguard the children in your care.

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    Safeguarding training

    Keep your entire school community up to date with the latest safeguarding knowledge with unlimited access to over 80 expert-written online training courses in safeguarding, compliance, health and safety, and wellbeing.

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    MyConcern

    Support staff to easily record and monitor safeguarding concerns. Enabling early interventions by identifying trends and patterns and helping to inform decision-making with our case management system, MyConcern, now part of Tes.

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