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Safeguarding Briefing - 12th December 2022
Dear Colleagues,
As we come towards the end of another busy year, I'd just like to thank you for all the work you do to keep children safe in school and beyond. This year has had different challenges to those in the recent past, but you have once again helped children and families in so many different ways.
When I ask safeguarding staff what keeps them busy, the most frequent topics are poor mental health, online harms, neglect and domestic abuse. It is against a challenging economic outlook that schools face the biggest challenges in continuing to offer support to learners and their families. At the same time, educational establishments themselves are facing hard financial decisions, in the face of new budgetary constraints.
Schools will always aim to do their best for children and young people. I am confident that you will continue to find the wisdom and will to do so. As educational professionals, it is sometimes easy to forget that we need support too. Talking to fellow colleagues about the inevitable burdens that leadership places upon us, can help alleviate that weight, as can talking to professional support services. One such source is Education Support, their helpline is available 24/7 on 08000 562 561.
This is our last Safeguarding Briefing for 2022. Our offices will close to enquiries at 15:00 on Friday 16th December 2022. We will reopen on Tuesday 3rd of January 2023.
Thank you for continuing to engage with our briefing, and thank you for acting on the information provided. I hope you have an excellent holiday period, and find time to reengage with friends and family. The Safeguarding Briefing will be back in January 2023, and whatever the New Year brings, I know that you will rise eagerly to the challenges it may present.
Best wishes from Andrew, Chiara, Emma, Hollie and Joe.
God Bless.
Forthcoming Courses
Implementing the role of the Senior Mental Health Lead (DfE Course Code SMHL105)
This is our DfE Quality Assured course for Senior Mental Health Leads. The course offers self-paced learning using the resources in our SMHL.Pro Hub, which is available for 12 months. Each month there is a live online member check-in to catch up with your tutors and each other. The course cost £397+VAT, some schools are eligible for a grant to cover this cost.
For more details, go to: https://www.smhl.pro/course
Advanced Safeguarding for DSLs
This is a four-session course for DSLs over a full-day. The course is offered live and as a recorded replay. When the course is live, there are plenty of opportunities to contribute with observations, questions or answers. As a recording, the interactions from other people are included and feedback notes that this makes it feel like you are not on your own.
"I came to a session in Birmingham back in 2019 (the day after the GE I think) and it was superb. Today [online] was just as good, if not better. The use of video mixed with live speaking was excellent and goes way beyond what other safeguarding courses provide. You've been there and done it, and your openness with your own story is inspirational."
LIVE ONLINE Thursday 12th January 2023 BOOK NOW
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LIVE ON LOCATION remember that you can book Andrew to visit your school, cluster or MAT to share his DSL course. Please contact us for details and bookings.
Whole School Safeguarding CPD Online Session for 2022/2023
In this two and half hour online presentation aimed at staff in all roles, specialist safeguarding consultant, Andrew Hall, explores important aspects of safeguarding in schools including child protection, learning from case studies and the latest version of Keeping Children Safe in Education.
"In my excitement, I forgot to add our star rating to the Safeguarding training we have just watched. If we could, we would give it 10 stars! That was the best Safeguarding training we have ever had, thank you so much. Feedback from staff has, so far, been overwhelmingly positive…I can't thank you enough."
"I would like to extend my thanks to Andrew for his fantastic online training. It was filmed so well - almost as if he were here with us! We were kept engaged throughout and felt so well informed - a huge thank you. It was a real success, and we look forward to booking you again in the future - with the staff team saying it was the best safeguarding training they have ever had. We really appreciated Andrew's real-life storytelling and the way such sensitive information was shared - it was excellent training."
You book your online session here: https://www.safeguardinginschools.co.uk/availablecourses
Until January, keep safe and thank you for all the work you're doing,
Andrew Hall
Specialist Safeguarding Consultant,
Success In Schools Ltd.
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