Safeguarding Bulletin - 15 October 2025
Analysing safeguarding and attendance
We are now on Week 3 of our 5-part conversation and free resources on attendance. Week 1 offered free video resources on Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA), week 2 was all about partnership with families with a free template attendance letter and family self-assessment Checklist for Attendance Tracking, and in Week 3 we now extend our offer with a Risk and Resilience profiling tool that includes an Excel spider chart generator examining attendance factors around the child, home and school from both home and school perspectives. It’s highly visual, offers a tool to work with families to track change, and breaks ‘attendance’ down into the specific factors that affect engagement to allow you to target plans effectively.
Attendance is top of the Ofsted and DfE checklist this year and these tools really draw on both attendance and safeguarding perspectives to support children to both attend and engage.
Access your Risk and Resilience tutorial and free resources from EdPsychEd and Safeguarding Network
Transitional safeguarding in further education
Guest blogger Isabelle King, Safeguarding Collective Director at NWG Network, posits that to truly safeguard students aged 16–25, the UK's safeguarding narrative must shift from rigid age-based thresholds to a more nuanced, developmental, and relational understanding of vulnerability and risk.
Read about how the UK’s FE safeguarding narrative could evolve
New Department for Education guidance on generative AI
The use of AI in our settings is growing at an enormous rate and the need for keen safeguarding practice needs to accelerate with it. You don’t need to be a tech expert to understand it, but you do need to act on it. Firebird, a data protection consultancy, have written a summary of the recent DfE guidance on its use in education settings which have implications across the sector.
SWGfL’s Understanding the Challenges of Online Reporting survey
SWGfL is leading Project Ember, a new anonymous research study funded by Safe Online, that explores the online experiences of young people (13-24 years) and how they view and respond to harmful online behaviours. The aim is to reach a diverse group of young people across the UK to better understand the challenges they face online, their understanding and views about reporting online harmful behaviour and improve the support services available to them.
Read the press release and share the survey
Anti-Bullying Week 2025: Power for Good
The Anti-Bullying Alliance has released a resource pack in preparation for Anti-Bullying Week, running from Monday 10th to Friday 14th November. The week will kick off with Odd Socks Day on Monday 10th, with adults and children being encouraged to wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique. Schools can also download free teaching resources and themed assemblies materials.
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