Leadership
Safeguarding for Governors
Know what KCSIE asks of you as a governor, and which questions and evidence show whether safeguarding in your school is working.
- 1 hour 1 minute
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Explain the governing board's safeguarding duties under KCSIE part two
- Check what leaders tell you against data, visits and conversations
- Ask focused questions about online safety and child-on-child abuse
- Recognise the signs of the four main types of abuse
- Build safeguarding into every governor visit, whatever your link area
About this course
As a governor you hold the school to account for safeguarding, yet most of what you see arrives in a report written by the people you're checking. Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) gives the governing board its own duties, and part two is written for you.
An independent safeguarding trainer and adviser turns those duties into things you can do. Cross-check what you're told against data, visits and conversations with staff and pupils. Know what the single central record should show, and what to ask about online safety and child-on-child abuse. A refresher on the four main types of abuse means you know what staff are being asked to spot.
Every governor has a part in this, whatever your link area. Asking about online safety when you meet a subject leader counts, and a safeguarding box on your visit form is an easy place to start.
- For early career teachers, governors and 5 other roles. All phases.
Recording
Open in order
- 5 min
Introduction | What is Safeguarding?
- 9 min
Legal Framework
- 9 min
What should you do as a local Governor?
- 8 min
What does this mean in practice?
- 13 min
Types of Abuse
- 4 min
Key Issue – Online Safety
- 5 min
What is Peer on Peer Abuse?
- 4 min
How can you affect positive change?
- 8 min
Q&A