Our trusted services for education providers to help them to meet the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education
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Safeguarding Training
Covering all your statutory training needs and championing the huge added value of collaborative training spaces, we deliver our unique safeguarding summits, 2 for 1 places on all our DSL courses, all staff training and training for governors.
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Audits and Evaluations
There’s nothing more helpful to understand the effectiveness of your safeguarding arrangements than to commission independent experts to assess how well your safeguarding work supports and protects your pupils.
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Empowering Governors
More and more is expected of your governing body. From meeting the statutory requirements through high quality training, to delivering supportive reviews, we can help your governing body become truly effective.
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Policy Development
Policies should never be a tick-box exercise and must reflect the real life situation in which they operate. Whatever you need support or resource to develop, we make sure they are fit-for-purpose, compliant and workable.
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Safeguarding Training
If you're looking for safeguarding training, Keep Governance and Safeguarding 's experience in delivering to staff across sectors is second to none, and we are proud that we always receive positive feedback, and the vast majority of participants on all our courses rate their training as Very Good or Excellent. You can scroll below to see just some of the reviews left by our training participants.
Click here to book your place on any of our courses or to see the dates of upcoming training sessions!
All training bookings are subject to our terms and conditions, read them here.
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The team of trainers we use to deliver your DSL training courses have all taught in UK schools and our training content has been developed with DSLs. We know what you need to know and how to make your investment in training worthwhile. That's why we always receive very positive feedback from our participants.
Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025 states “The [DSO] carries a significant level of responsibility and the postholder should be given the additional time, funding, training, resources, and support needed to carry out the role effectively” [p103]” and “The designated safeguarding lead (and any deputies) should undergo training to provide them with the knowledge and skills required to carry out the role. This training should be updated at least every two years.”[Annex C].
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 two-for-one tickets on all our DSL training courses. We deliver these in-person courses across the West Midlands. Click here to book or scroll down to find out more.
Our course covers:
The key statutory requirements on schools and colleges, how they change and how to meet those in your establishments.
Understanding Herefordshire pathway of intervention with regard to the local safeguarding partnership’s Levels of Need
Exploring key learning from local and national Serious Case Reviews and how these are relevant to schools and colleges.
Understand current developments safeguarding.
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Combine training and collaborative safeguarding improvement planning
Our unique Safeguarding Summits bring your safeguarding team together for a day to ensure they are trained to the statutory requirements while facilitating open, reflective and challenging practice discussion. Such conversations provide insight into required improvements for your safeguarding systems and processes. These are then documented as part of the session and will provide evidence of effective leadership and management while demonstrating your school or colleges ongoing commitment to safeguarding.
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We provide safeguarding training tailored to the needs of your governing body and meet the training requirement of Keeping Children Safe in Education. It’s not introduction to safeguarding training, but a half-day course to help you ensure you can comply with the 62 statutory expectations set out in KCSiE.
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If you are involved in the interview process for education settings, our half day safer recruitment in education course is what you need to keep your establishment safe while meeting the statutory requirements for anyone involved in recruitment in education as required by Keeping Children Safe in Education.
We’ll look at why this requirement is in place, and the considerations for safer decision making throughout the recruitment process, from planning, through advertising, applications and shortlisting, interviews and pre-appointment checks and the final offer.
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Safeguarding for all staff
The statutory expectations of all organisations working with children or vulnerable adults are that all staff should undergo safeguarding training appropriate to their role. Too often all staff training focuses on the signs and indicators - let's face it, that's the easy part - but our training is focused on developing the "think safeguarding" culture across your staff team, encouraging appropriate conversations to ensure nothing is missed or dismissed. Our all staff training content includes:
What safeguarding children is and the statutory role of all staff
What staff should do if they have concerns about a child, hypothesising and professional conversations
Whistleblowing and what staff should do if they have concerns about safeguarding systems or another adult in school
Types of safeguarding, safeguarding issues and the indicators of abuse
““This training was fantastic because it was more relevant to my own setting than any other safeguarding training I have been on before. Holding our own safeguarding summit with the support of Andy, allowed all members of our safeguarding team and senior leaders to get together, receive training relevant to the latest KCSiE but most importantly with a focus on St James. There was opportunity for everyone to actively participate and hear all views from staff members on the practises and strategies used in school. The day was really worthwhile, valuable to all of our safeguarding team, very interesting, up to date and excellent value for money. The action plan produced was specific and detailed and has already had a significant impact.””
DSL Training
DSL Training
Join us for our next DSL and deputies training session on 28th September 2026
Audits and Evaluations
Into the effectiveness of your safeguarding arrangements.
Bring an independent eye to the assessment of your practice. We'll shape an audit around your needs and speak to your stakeholders to get an accurate view of your organisation.
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Keeping Children Safe in Education is clear that:
Online safety is as the core of strong safeguarding practice; and
Governing bodies are responsible for ensure safe use of technology in teaching and administration
KCSiE also points to a number of self assessment tools to review the effectiveness of your filtering and monitoring, your use of AI and your preparedness for potential cyber attacks. While these are helpful tools, binging in the external consultant from Keep Governance and Safeguaring, who understand the technological context can make the assessment impartial and more accurate for you and make key recommendations for the school.
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Building on experience supporting a range of statutory agencies, service providers and third sector organisations to assess their safeguarding processes and procedures, Keep Governance and Safeguarding provides one-to-one support services and impartial strategic analysis to ensure your organisation is best prepared to safeguard the children it works with.
“Safeguarding is effective. Leaders commissioned an audit of their safeguarding culture because they want to keep vigilant and make sure all its actions are as secure as they can be. Governors are overseeing the implementation of this audit and have regular contact with the designated safeguarding officer and his team.”
Improving your Governance Arrangements
From supporting the Chair of Governors, through to developing terms of references and sub-committee structures our knowledge of governance can help to make your governing body more effective. We have worked with governing bodies to create risk registers, strategies and improvement plans.
As we're collaborating with our clients we are learning lessons all Boards can improve from and you can too!
Strategic Safeguarding Training for Governors
“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.”
This isn’t an introduction to safeguarding training, but something more
tailored to the needs of strategic leaders. We have extensive experience working with schools, DSL’s, and some global organisations, always taking a strategic perspective, ensuring your safeguarding work is effective and protects your people
Keep Governance and Safeguarding is the best place to:
Support you to ensure that your Governors, Trustees or Proprietors are able to discharge their statutory responsibilities.
Find innovative ways to improve your safeguarding governance arrangements - helping leaders make their organisations safer
Work in partnership with to improve your safeguarding frameworks
Our consultants can tailor their work to the needs of your Governing Body, and bringing their combination of experience working in education and our knowledge of working in governance and with boards across sectors, you can be confident you will get what you need!
Policy Development
Ensuring your safeguarding work is clearly documented and coherent
All organisations working with children or vulnerable adults have a role to play in safeguarding and have statutory expectations on them, either through
Working Together to Safeguard Children, the Care Act 2014 or the
Specific expectations of the charities' regulators across the UK.
One of these expectations is that organisations have appropriate policies to support safeguarding practice. Often developed over time and sometimes left to go out of date, these policies do not always reflect practice and work together coherently.
We can review your policies based on your practice and sector best practice in order to develop your policy suite.
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With extensive experience providing support for safeguarding leaders, including Heads of Safeguarding and Board members with responsibility for safeguarding at some of the Premier League's top Clubs or the Trustees of National Charities, we are well placed to help your leaders effectively discharge their responsibilities while ensuring your operational arrangements are robust.
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For Board members with responsibility for safeguarding we are a trusted adviser, to walk with you through your safeguarding responsibilities and provide confidence that you are providing effective oversight of safeguarding. In recent years we have seen the start of company directors being found guilty for not protecting vulnerable people in their care at the same time as statutory guidance is putting new responsibilities on Boards. Whether you are a Governor in education, a Non-Executive Director of a company or a Charity Trustee, we are here to provide tailored support to you.
For whole Boards, we provide Safeguarding Governance and Leadership Training which covers key areas of organisational responsibility including:
The safeguarding landscape and organisational culture
Key roles and responsibilities and the prioritisation of safeguarding
Developing Board oversight to support effective safeguarding governance
All bookings onto training are subject to our terms and conditions, available here.