Reading both the Child Safeguarding Practice Review  into the death of Sara Sharif and a week earlier the Child Practice Review: Our Bravery Brought Justice   into the abuse carried out by the Welsh headteacher, Neil Foden, there is a strong sense of déjà vu and anger. How many times have we seen and heard this and yet it happens again? Why are we not making changes and learning? In both cases, there are horrendous and numbing lists of systematic failures and missed opportuni

This is an incredibly difficult time for the Jewish community. We are still reeling from the attack on Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur (2 nd  October) which was both dreadful in itself and brought up memories and fears from previous attacks in other places. We are also trying to process the emotions and implications of the hostage release on October 13 th and the ongoing impacts of Israeli actions in Gaza. There is no homogenous Jewish community in the UK. T

We now have the finalised version of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025 with minimal changes from either the July draft or the 2024...

The difficulty in identifying the new information in this guidance is it can be compared to the last set of statutory guidance from 2019...

All those working in schools and safeguarding are breathing a big sigh of relief that the draft of Keeping Children Safe in Education has...

In March 2025, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) released new guidance on the Deployment of Teaching Assistants . This is an...

The National Literacy Trust released their Children and young people’s reading in 2024  report earlier this month, identifying that just...

The finalised version of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 was released on September 2nd. There are very few changes from the draft...

I am one of the thousands of people leaving the school workforce at the end of this school year. I am very lucky because a)       This...

In this blog, I intend to provide a guide to Working Together 2023 including identifying key themes and changes that are relevant to...

We were promised the changes from KCSIE 2022 to KCSIE 2023 would be minor. Therefore there was no consultation document for Keeping...

Some years Keeping Children Safe in Education brings big changes. This is not one of those years. Nevertheless the document is...

My first thoughts as I read the description of the broken SEND system in the SEND Review: Right support, right place, right time was a...

In many ways, I have severe reservations about Nadhim Zahawi and the DfE’s plan to ask a volunteer army of retired teachers to return to...

Even though it underlies all my work and my approach to education, I have written little about my personal experience of dyslexia. I was...

Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2021 was released on 6th July. It is a weighty tone (168 pages). Not surprisingly, there are...

In December 2017, the DfE released their guidance on Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children (updated May 2018). This was...

This lockdown is different for schools. It is very hard on teachers, parents and children. We are managing constant government policy and...

When I try to explain dyspraxia, I often explain it as a wiring problem. My brain is connected slightly differently to many other people....

After the aborted consultation on Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020, the government have released a consultation on Keeping...