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Introduction
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility, or so we are told in Keeping Children Safe in Education, but a culture of safeguarding doesn’t simply evolve. This article explores how we understand the nature of our safeguarding culture in schools and colleges, then how to influence your setting’s approach through effective strategy and leadership.
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There is much guidance around safeguarding in schools, a huge set of requirements for knowledge, a raft of national, local and organisational procedures, a mandate for every school or college to designate and hold safeguarding at senior leadership and board levels, and guidance that every member of staff must know the statutory guidance and be effectively and regularly trained in safeguarding children. What could possibly go wrong?
This article applies a very established organisational development model, the McKinsey 7-S Framework, to how schools and colleges develop a “positive culture and ethos where safeguarding is an important part of everyday life” (Ofsted, 2019). We explore the role of leadership and ask key questions about each element beginning with the underpinning area of value base.
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