Overview of Learning
Statutory guidance called Keeping Children Safe in Education states the following:
Governing boards 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.
In this course the importance of Safeguarding within a school and academy is discussed. It is vital the board fully hold leaders to account over the organisation’s safeguarding procedures. It is recommended that the safeguarding governor or trustee from every school and academy board attends this training. This session aims to:
- Provide an overview of the key safeguarding principles in Keeping Children Safe In Education
- Recap the key functions of the Board linked to Safeguarding and Ofsted
- Reflect on the safeguarding effectiveness of the main board meetings and Pupil Welfare and Community Sub Committees
- Identify the best ways to support and challenge schools with school Safeguarding Reporting
- Perform effective safeguarding Governance visits into your school
Audience:
All governors, trustees, local governors and members of schools and academies, particularly those with specific responsibility for safeguarding.
Presenters:
Jo Nicholson, Safeguarding in Education Manager and Natalie France, Safeguarding in Education Social Worker
Format:
This course will be a recorded video session. This will be released to you on the dates advertised and available to view via the secure Bolton Governance Gateway website. Notification will be made via email. You can view the recording at your leisure after this date.
Pricing
Fees for this session are payable via the school budget and not by individual members of the governing board. If your governing board has signed up to the Governance Training Service Level Agreement, sessions are free of charge. Governors of governing boards who have not signed up to the Governance Training Service Level Agreement may attend for a fee of £98 per session.