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Victim blaming language

15 October 2022

Victim blaming is any language or action that implies (whether intentionally or unintentionally) that a person is partially or wholly responsible for abuse that has happened to them. It is…

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Safety Planning in Education

12 October 2022

A new guide has been released to support education professionals’ knowledge, skills and confidence to understand and respond to incidents of harmful sexual behaviour and ensure the safety of all…

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How to carry out the KCSiE online checks

4 October 2022

Keeping Children Safe in Education, paragraph 220 says introduces a new duty to consider 'carrying out an online search as part of their due diligence on the shortlisted candidates'. To…

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Thematic Reflective Space: Supporting distressed CYP to manage in school

3 October 2022

Barnardo's Education Community are currently in a new phase of development and are trialling monthly thematic reflective spaces to replace the 'Education Hubs'. The BEC Steering Group suggested the first theme be…

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360 Degree Safe – Online Safety Review Tool Update

2 October 2022

The online safety, self-review tool 360 Degree Safe has been updated in response to ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. Find out what has changed and how SWGfL’s online safety policy templates have also included these…

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Why language matters: “hidden” in plain sight

1 October 2022

NSPCC Learning has released a new blog as part of a series looking at the importance of language in safeguarding, focusing on the use of the terms like “hidden men”…

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Trauma – Pedagogy in practice: free online training

26 September 2022

The Chartered College of Teaching has partnered with ACAMH to present a FREE online training series, ‘Pedagogy in practice’, exclusively for teachers and school leaders. These are a series of FREE…

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What is professional curiosity?

20 September 2022

In KCSIE Part one: Safeguarding information for all staff, the term professional curiosity is used in paragraph 19. The guidance states: All staff should be aware that children may not…

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Working with trauma survey for professionals working with children

14 September 2022

The UK Trauma Council (UKTC) are asking professionals to take part in an online survey to gather feedback about their experience of working with trauma, including single incident trauma and…

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Do your filtering systems work across all school devices?

13 September 2022

Since 2016, the UK Safer Internet Centre has shown educational establishments, as well as some of the leading filtering providers, how to establish ‘appropriate levels’ of filtering and monitoring. One specific…

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NSPCC: Safeguarding and child protection self-assessment tool

11 September 2022

NSPCC have created a free self-assessment tool to help schools or organisations audit current safeguarding and child protection arrangements. The tool will also help to identify areas for development and support you in…

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Online Safety Policy and Practice Report 2022

6 September 2022

The Schools in England Online Safety Policy and Practice report for 2022 looks at the latest strengths and weaknesses seen in online safety over the past year for schools in England.…

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