October 2024

Welcome to your October DSL Planner Page!

This month our Planner focus is on Parental Mental Ill Health and Parental Substance Misuse.

Poor parental mental health can have a detrimental effect on the health and development of children and young people, which can lead to an increased risk of mental health problems for the children and young people themselves.

Children are at greater risk of harm when they are living in households with parental substance misuse problems, with increased risks of domestic abuse, neglect, a poor home environment and exposure to unsafe substances.

KCSiE tells us that all staff should have an awareness of safeguarding issues that can put children at risk of harm and that the safeguarding training all staff receive should be updated regularly.

What do you and your staff know about the issues of Parental Mental Ill Health and Parental Substance Misuse? Is the training in your setting up-to-date?

Join Safeguarding Network and let us help you develop a structured and comprehensive approach that builds a strong and sustainable safeguarding culture.

Have your staff read and understood KCSiE 2024?

This month’s free gift is a tool to check the right people have read the right sections of Keeping Children Safe in Education. Although people may have read the guidance, it is the impact that matters, so how do you check they’ve understood and can apply what they’ve read?

Access our free document setting out who should read what sections of KCSiE 2024 by completing the form.

Offer extended

Due to high levels of interest, we have extended our offer for non-member organisations to try our knowledge check for free. See our September planner page for more information.

Please note that by entering your details to download any document on this page, you are signing up to our free fortnightly safeguarding bulletin keeping you up to date in developments in the world of safeguarding. You can unsubscribe at any time by following the link in the bulletin.

Enter your details to download our free KCSiE resource

Member benefits - DSL Training Materials covering Parental Mental Ill Health and Parental Substance Misuse

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 subjects of parental mental ill health and parental substance misuse. 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.

Enter your details to download the free posters for this month

Check out our free resources

Parental Mental Ill-health

Parental Drug and Alcohol Misuse

Parental Issues

Calendar dates

World Mental Health Day - 10^th Oct

International day for the Eradication of Poverty - 17^th Oct

Anti-Slavery Day - 18^th Oct

The last step

Our model works for a growing number of schools, colleges and other settings – ensuring they have a structured and comprehensive approach that builds a strong and sustainable safeguarding culture.

There are lots of benefits: Check out the different levels of membership to find one that suits you and your setting and ensure you have a structured approach in place.
There’s no tie in beyond the term: If you join and you’re not happy, we are happy to discuss and have a no-quibble policy.
Still unsure?: You can contact us and arrange a free virtual tour & tutorial of what we have to offer.

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