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5 Reasons to Switch Your Safeguarding Software Provider
Monitoring pupil safeguarding is an ongoing and important priority for schools, colleges and other education settings. It’s vital that these settings have the most up-to-date, ...
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Mental Health Awareness: Spotting Signs of Loneliness in Schools
Schools have an important duty of care towards pupils, which includes taking measures to safeguard and support their mental and physical wellbeing. While children’s mental ...
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Supporting Teacher and Staff Wellbeing
While teaching can be incredibly rewarding, it’s not without its challenges. Funding cuts, looming inspections, ambitious targets and pandemic-imposed issues–which are still lingering–are placing school ...
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5 Tips for Monitoring Stress Amongst Pupils During Exams
Exam season is on the horizon and can be a particularly stressful time for students. In the run-up to, and during exams, it’s important to ...
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Breaking Down the House of Lords’ Inquiry into The Children and Families Act, 2014
In this blog we outline how safeguarding software can be used to address the recommendations outlined by the House of Lords’ inquiry into the Children ...
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Recording Signs of Bullying: Top Tips for Schools and Other Settings
Bullying affects millions of lives each year and is a challenge that schools have to tackle on an ongoing basis. Bullying can have lasting effects ...
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Teacher Workload Statistics Show a Clear Need for Safeguarding Efficiencies
It’s common knowledge that teachers and wider education staff in the UK are overworked – this was only exacerbated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. According ...
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How to Prepare for a Child Protection Conference
Although attending a child protection conference can feel intimidating, especially if it is your first time, there are many ways in which you can prepare ...
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Safeguarding Software Enhances Local Authority Collaboration
When monitoring the safeguarding of children and young people, it’s crucial that agencies work together to ensure that the vulnerable don’t fall through the gaps. ...
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Children’s Mental Health Week: Monitoring Signs is Key
The theme for this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is Let’s Connect – which is centred around the importance of meaningful connections both during Children’s Mental Health Week and ...
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Why Investing in Safeguarding Software Should Be a Priority for 2023
With the New Year comes the start of a new school term, giving teachers and students the chance to reset for the year ahead. But, ...
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How CPOMS Saved Me During an Ofsted Inspection
The date was Thursday 11 October 2018. The Tuesday before, Ofsted had announced a surprise inspection at a CPOMS customer’s school. After having enjoyed relatively ...
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How to Monitor Pupil Wellbeing After the Holiday Break
Returning to school after the holidays can be daunting for young people and staff alike. But after spending so much time away, it’s a great ...
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Safeguarding Concerns Around the Holidays
For teachers and safeguarding leads, you’ll know that children’s wellbeing isn’t linear across the year and concerns relating to their wellbeing or safeguarding may be ...
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Managing Staff Compliance with a Digital System
Managing Staff Compliance with a Digital System All schools must make sure they’re keeping track of their staff effectively to remain compliant. Part of this ...
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How to Track and Record Physical Signs of Poor Wellbeing
While it can be difficult to clearly identify signs of poor wellbeing in young people, recording information about their behavioural, emotional or physical wellbeing, no ...
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Why Student Wellbeing Policies Matter to Parents Selecting Schools
Parents have a lot to consider when searching for the right school for their children. Some focus on academic attainment and Ofsted reports whilst others ...
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Autumn Statement 2022 – What You Need to Know
The Autumn Statement delivered by chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the government will invest a further £2.3 billion into schools next year and the year after. The much-anticipated ...
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Anti-Bullying Week: Spotting, Recording and Monitoring Bullying in Schools
Bullying and friendship issues affect millions of lives each year. By law, all state and private schools must have a behaviour policy in place that ...
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2022 KCSIE Guidance– are you up to date?
Read about the latest KCSIE – Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 Updates The new version of the Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) statutory guidance has been ...
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Communicating with Local Authorities to Maximise Pupil Support
For schools and other organisations that work with children and young people, there’s nothing more important than the safety and wellbeing of every pupil who ...
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