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More depth and detail: The new safeguarding guidance

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Local Safeguarding Children Boards may be on their way out but schools will still be on the frontline when it comes to child protection. Suzanne O’Connell outlines the major changes and implications for schools of the new Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance

Local Authorities and LSCBs are facing a major upheaval with the introduction of new partnership arrangements (Headteacher Update, May 2018). However, what will most interest schools is the new, updated safeguarding guidance that refers specifically to them.

Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) is the schools’ handbook that summarises the requirements and the recommendations for how schools should conduct their safeguarding role.

The new guidance, published in May, will not come into effect until September 2018. In the meantime, schools must continue to follow the KCSIE 2016 guidance.

KCSIE is a crucial document for schools to familiarise themselves with, especially as reports of sexual offences against children have increased sharply. Furthermore, the NSPCC reports that 51,000 children were in need of protection in 2017.

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