Safeguarding training for everyone who works in a school is statutory and vital to ensure that they understand their responsibilities and know what to do if they have a concern.

Your duty to safeguard pupils is paramount. Child protection should be discussed sensitively and with awareness that it can be a very emotional topic.

Aims and outcomes 

• Understand more about the role of your school in safeguarding children.
• Clarify your professional safeguarding responsibilities and those of others.
• Describe the types of abuse and their key indicators.
• Know how to respond to suspicions or disclosures of abuse, including concerns about the conduct of adults within the school.
• Explain how sensitive information should be recorded and shared, and with whom.
• Have up-to-date copies of your school’s safeguarding policies, staff behaviour policy, reporting procedures and welfare concerns record form.

Authors: Ann Raymond and William Baginsky