Safeguarding Network’s Response to the Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 Consultation
Safeguarding Network is a specialist organisation working with Designated Safeguarding Leads and brings much experience of working with schools, colleges and other education settings on this topic through webinars, supervision, direct consultation and audits as well as the provision of training materials to organisations working with children and young people.
We undertook a series of webinars in March 2026 where we advised participants of the proposed updates and then asked for their views. Across the webinar series we had 1958 attendees from a variety of settings including mainstream and private schools as well as specialist providers and MATs. Participants were mainly Designated Safeguarding Leads and other members of the senior leadership team such as Deputy/Assistant Head Teachers and Trust Safeguarding Leads.
This submission is a summary of the responses from that process.
Helping Families - what staff need to know webinar booking now...
The KCSiE 2026 consultation sets out that staff need to know about responses to absence and how to access family help (both from your setting and local agencies). It also sets out that staff should know threshold criteria for child protection assessment pathways, children in care and the procedures and processes for children within the youth secure estate and disabled children.
This session takes DSLs through the requirements and how we can effectively deliver sessions within early years settings, schools and colleges to ensure all staff have clarity about how to respond to young people and families. We’ll consider how these processes link into effective work with families and provide valuable materials to support you in delivering this to your staff teams.
Scheduled for May 8th, 12pm-1pm, all registrants will receive a session recording and slides.
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MEMBERS: This webinar is free for Safeguarding Network members. Please login and go to the Your CPD page for the link to book.
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