The 2022 version of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) came into force on 1 September.
Note, this article only summarises the changes between KCSIE 2021 and 2022. For a summary of the whole document take a look at this article.
There are no major changes, but get up to speed with everything that's new below.
Key things for you to know
Receive appropriate safeguarding and child protection (including online) training at induction, which is regularly updated, to equip you with the knowledge to provide strategic challenge. This is so you can be assured that safeguarding policies and procedures are effective and support your school to deliver a robust whole school approach to safeguarding (paragraph 81) Be aware of your obligations under the Human Rights Act 1998, the Equality Act 2010, and the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) (paragraph 82). Note that these duties haven’t