July 2025
Welcome to your July DSL Planner Page!
This month our Planner focus is Bullying and Hate Crime.
Bullying is often a barrier to learning and can negatively impact all areas of child and adolescent development and wellbeing. We must remember that bullying also negatively affects bystanders and those children and young people who enact the bullying behaviours. Bullying can occur across all areas of a child’s life – out in the community, in their education setting and wherever they are online.
Bullying can cover a wide range of issues, and some forms are illegal (e.g., violence or assault, theft, repeated harassment and hate crimes) and should be reported to the police. Child-on-child abuse can also include bullying.
Hate crimes target people for who they are (their identity) or what they appear to be. Hate crime sends a very personal message to its victim and reinforces patterns of discrimination and prejudice against certain communities and groups of people. Any crime can be prosecuted as a hate crime if the offender has demonstrated or been motivated by hostility and or prejudice.
Do you feel confident that you and your staff know how to identify and respond to bullying? Are you and your staff aware of how addressing bullying links directly to your other safeguarding responsibilities? Are you and your staff secure in your understanding of what hate crime is and how the issue might relate to your students?
Join Safeguarding Network and let us help you develop a structured and comprehensive approach that builds a strong and sustainable safeguarding culture.
Member benefits - DSL Training Materials covering Bullying and Hate Crimes
Our membership includes a 2-year staff training curriculum covering every area in KCSiE with bitesize sessions designed to fit into your staff meetings every month, including the subject of bullying and hate crimes. DSL materials include:
- Handouts
- PowerPoint presentations with presenter notes.
- Quizzes
- Whole Setting Update and Presenter Notes - the General Safeguarding Update training to be delivered by the DSL.
- Scenarios - Safeguarding Scenarios with separate Scenario DSL notes to aid discussion and support sharing of best practice.
All DSL materials present the subject matter in a straight-forward and practical way, keeping the safeguarding of children at the heart of the topic.
SPECIAL OFFER - £20 Safeguarding Network membership discount (valid to 31 July 2025).
This month we are offering you a fabulous £20 membership discount. Standard Membership costs £109+VAT per term (with an annual subscription). All Essential members have access to the full 24 month Calendar of DSL Materials described above and;
- Regular bulletins
- Webinars on hot topics
- Early access to our Safeguarding Insights
- Heavily discounted online learning
- Training discounts
- Initial safeguarding advice
- KCSiE implementation tool
- KCSiE discounted staff knowledge checker
- Discounts on places at our annual safeguarding conference
- INSET training pack
Offer expires on 31st July 2025. Limited to one use per setting where the setting is not already a member of Safeguarding Network. Offer can be withdrawn at any time. If used more than once per setting or by member settings, the full membership price will be charged as appropriate. No alternatives (cash or otherwise) will be offered.
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