Upcoming Training Courses - October 2026

Packed with practical, engaging sessions designed especially for DSLs and senior leaders, each course delivers clear strategies, up-to-date insights, and real-world guidance to help you confidently navigate safeguarding challenges in your setting.

Don't forget that our members receive a discount on all of our training courses.

DSL Refresher Course

6 October 2026

This course is designed for DSLs based in England who have had their initial DSL Training with their local authority and provides a refresher keeping you up to date with latest statutory guidance and best practice so that you are ready for the new academic year. We cover everything related to KCSiE and invite discussion and participation around forthcoming changes.

Throughout the session, we’ll explore safeguarding culture, contextual safeguarding, subtle and less obvious indicators of concern, effective record keeping, resilience and confidence, working constructively with parents and professionals, making effective challenges, and the role of accountability and supervision — all framed around what DSLs need to know right now.

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Building Support Systems for Bereaved Children

12 October 2026

92% of children and young people will experience a 'significant' bereavement before the age of 16 and 1 in 25 school age children will have been bereaved of a parent or sibling. (Winston's Wish). Therefore bereavement is, or will be, a significant issue for the majority of children and young people before they leave statutory school age. Schools therefore have a key role to play in providing bereavement support, and yet death remains an issue many of us find uncomfortable, difficult, or even traumatic to talk about.

This course offers support, guidance and information about managing bereavement within a school setting. It considers the impacts of a significant bereavement on children, linking this to child development, and explores some of the ways in which children process and display grief. It addresses what other factors may impact on children's experiences of death and dying, including complicated grief and protective factors.

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