🌐 Webinar 1: The New Frontier of Online Safety: AI, Disinformation, and Filtering
This webinar addresses the evolving online risk landscape, which is a high-priority area in the updated guidance for all school staff and governors.
Focus Area
Detailed exploration of the new online content risks explicitly named in KCSIE 2025: misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. How these risks manifest in school settings.
Real-world examples of how disinformation affects pupils' wellbeing and conduct.
Generative AI & Deepfakes
Understanding the DfE guidance on Generative AI and the associated safeguarding risks (e.g., AI exploitation, deepfakes, and misuse). Focus on staff and pupil acceptable use policies.
Policy Template Addendum for Generative AI use.
Filtering & Monitoring Standards
Review of the statutory DfE Filtering and Monitoring Standards. Practical steps for schools to assess and audit their systems to ensure compliance with the technical requirements.
An Audit Tool template linked to the DfE's 'plan technology for your school' service.
🫂 Webinar 2: Whole-School Safeguarding Culture: Complex Vulnerabilities
This session focuses on embedding a child-centred approach across the entire school body, tackling interconnected issues like mental health and equality.
Child-on-Child Abuse (COCA) Refresher
Training on identifying and responding to all forms of COCA, including sexual violence, sexual harassment, and discriminatory bullying. Emphasis on the importance of pupil voice.
Guidance on conducting effective and sensitive pupil surveys to gauge COCA prevalence.
Vulnerable Groups & Equality
Statutory duties under the Equality Act 2010 in a safeguarding context. Focus on supporting pupils with protected characteristics (e.g., the importance of providing a safe space for LGBTQ+ pupils).
A Vulnerability Mapping Tool for tracking support needs across groups.
Early Help & Attendance
Understanding when absence or missing education becomes a safeguarding concern, aligning with the statutory Working Together to Improve School Attendance guidance. Focus on the early help referral threshold.
Referral Flowchart linking attendance data to early help action.
💻 Webinar 3: KCSIE 2026 Statutory Compliance & The DSL Deep Dive
This webinar targets Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs), Deputy DSLs, and Senior Leaders, focusing on the technical and operational compliance required for the academic year.
KCSIE 2025 Updates
Mandatory changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025, including technical amendments and alignment with other statutory guidance (e.g., Working Together to Improve School Attendance).
Statutory Checklist and breakdown of Annex F changes.
DSL Role & Supervision
Strategies for managing the increased volume and complexity of referrals (self-harm, eating disorders, anxiety) and best practice for the wellbeing and supervision of DSLs.
Case study on effective DSL-to-DSL support models.
Alternative Provision (AP)
Clarified statutory duties for the safeguarding of pupils placed in AP. Focus on half-termly reviews, checks for new AP staff, and information sharing.
A model AP Placement Review Protocol.