Ensuring a Joined-up Approach to Safeguarding
Safeguarding children can be as challenging as it is important. Each organisation working closely with children and young people has a hugely important role to play in safeguarding and promoting their wellbeing, to ensure they have the best outcomes. The importance of a joined-up approach to safeguarding In recent years, there have been several high-profile […]
2023 KCSIE Guidance: Key changes you need to know
Read about the latest KCSIE – Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 Updates The updated version of the Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance has now been published by the government and comes into force on the 1st September 2023. The new guidance sets out what schools and other settings in England must do to safeguard […]
8 Factors to Consider When Discussing Youth Suicide and Self-Harm
Content warning: This content discusses suicide and has some mentions of suicidal thoughts and self-harm. Conversations around suicide and self-harm can be extremely difficult, not only in school settings, but in wider society. With suicide rates amongst young people reaching their highest point in 30 years and self-harm hospital admissions up by 22% for children aged 8 to 17, it […]
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, efficient and effective safeguarding software in place. Effective safeguarding software helps make the process of monitoring safeguarding concerns seamless for school staff, ensures that all concerns – no matter how […]
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 staff under significant pressure. Teachers are stretched in terms of time, money, resources and support – and in many cases, their mental wellbeing is suffering as a result. According to […]
New Safeguarding Software To Transform Collaboration Between Councils and Schools
Market leading safeguarding software company CPOMS has developed a first-of-its-kind solution to transform the way that local authorities work with schools to log and manage safeguarding concerns about children.
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. Safeguarding software can help better align local authorities to schools and other settings involved in monitoring safeguarding by making it easier to share concerns. Although multi-agency collaboration has long been […]
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, with teacher stress levels at a high, and strikes and the testing economic climate dominating headlines, it is now more important than ever for schools and local authorities to invest in […]
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 impacted more so in the coming days as the holidays near. Closely monitoring children’s safeguarding and wellbeing throughout the year is vital, but at a time when children and young […]
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 in force for a couple of months. We’ve put together the following summary of the key changes so you can be sure you are up to date. This isn’t an […]