Governors: Strategic Safeguarding Leadership in Education

A half-day course for governors and proprietors to ensure they can comply with the 62 statutory expectations set out in KCSiE.
About this Event

"It is leaders who create the operating context in which child protection decisions are taken. At a strategic level, leaders need to ensure: clarity of vision, responsibilities and resources; robust governance; and a culture of learning, improvement and challenge. When there are conflicting agency priorities, capacity issues, and a lack of shared vison and values, effective multi-disciplinary and multiagency working becomes very much dependent on individual will and relationships. Children cannot rely on that alone. ”
The National review into the murders of Arthur LabinjoHughes and Star Hobson

As a strategic leader in education, this course will help you ensure you are equipped to provide accountability, support and challenge to your senior leadership team and meet the 62 explicit statutory responsibilities on you within Keeping Children Safe in Education.

Our hybrid delivery model means you can join us in person and enjoy all the benefits of our wonderful training venue, or online if it is too far for you to come: you will be prompted to let us know which you will be doing during the booking process.

Keeping Children Safe in Education also states that "Governing bodies and proprietors should ensure that all governors and trustees receive appropriate safeguarding and child protection (including online) training at induction. This training should equip them with the knowledge to provide strategic challenge to test and assure themselves that the safeguarding policies and procedures in place in schools and colleges are effective and support the delivery of a robust whole school approach to safeguarding. Their training should be updated regularly" (paragraph 79).

Our Strategic Safeguarding Leadership in Education course looks at why these requirements are in place, and how to discharge them, providing governors with the tools to assess the effectiveness of their roles.

Because we believe in a collaborative approach to safeguarding, we encourage members of staff to train together, where they can write safeguarding development plans which provide value long after the event is complete. To this end, we offer 30% off the total cost when more than on ticket is bought for any of our courses for education. We deliver these in-person courses across the West Midlands. Click here to book or scroll down to find out more.