Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022

Keeping Children Safe in Education has been released and came into effect yesterday. Here are some main updates and a link to the full guidance:

Full Guidance

• School governors and trustees must receive safeguarding training, including online safety training. This should be received as part of their induction and be regularly updated.
• Guidance highlights the importance of talking to parents about children’s access to online sites when away from school.
• ‘Peer-on-peer’ abuse has been amended to ‘child-on-child’ abuse.
• To encourage safer recruiting, new staff can be subject to digital background check, and CVs can only be accepted alongside a full application form.
• A time constraint of 5 days has been added to pupil data transfer.
• An ‘appropriate adult’ must be in attendance during police investigations.
• New information has been added to explain the impact of domestic abuse.
• The DfE sexual violence and sexual harassment guidance has been incorporated in the KCSIE guidance.

New Government guidance: Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022

To ensure compliance with the guidance, it’s important to look over your policies and procedures, and see how they match with the new guidance.

If you find training is required to fill in some of the gaps, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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