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Monitoring safeguarding provision: checklist
Your governing board must make sure your school has effective safeguarding policies and procedures in place. Use our checklist to help you monitor your school's safeguarding practice.
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Use our checklist
Go through the checklist with your designated safeguarding lead (DSL) to satisfy yourself, and the governing board, that your school has appropriate safeguarding arrangements in place.
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No specific frequency for monitoring provision
Changes to the checklist We've updated our checklist so it's in line with the new KCSIE 2021, as well as other additions, including: Training Staff should know how to identify children who may benefit from early help, and how to identify the signs of abuse and neglect Policies and procedures There are systems in place for children to confidently report
- Childcare disqualification requirements
- Coronavirus: how to monitor safeguarding
- Governors' role in monitoring the single central record
- Governors' role in preventing peer-on-peer abuse
- Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE): September 2021 changes
- Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE): summary
- Ofsted review of sexual abuse in schools: summary
- Ofsted’s knife crime research: summary
- Online safety: governors' role
- Questions to ask about safeguarding
- QuickRead: Safeguarding responsibilities
- Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children: summary
- QuickRead: The Prevent duty
- The Prevent duty: governors' role
- The Prevent duty: schools' responsibilities
- Understanding the safeguarding report Updated
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