Course updated August 2025

Keeping Children Safe in Education

Part One of the statutory safeguarding guidance for schools and colleges in England. All staff must read and understand this material.

📄 31 pages
✓ 10-question assessment
🛡 80% pass mark

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course you will be able to:

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Understand the definition of safeguarding and your responsibility to safeguard children.
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Understand the categories of abuse and the signs that might indicate a child is being abused.
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Be aware that child-on-child abuse is happening at your setting, and what this looks like.
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Understand best practice for dealing with disclosures and making a report.
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Be aware that adults in your setting can abuse children, what this looks like, and what you should do.
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Reflect on why safeguarding is so important.

This e-learning contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.