This is a summary of the DfE guidance of March 27th 2020 with suggested actions schools need to take.

Thoughts and resources to support schools to cope with Coronavirus

The update of Keeping Safe in Education for 2020 has been released for consultation. This is a substantial rewrite.

June 4, 2019 At the end of May the DfE released two sets of data relating to Special Educational Needs (SEN): Special needs: An analysis and summary of data ...

Updated: 14 minutes ago GUIDANCE SUPPORTING SCHOOLS TO TEACH THEIR PUPILS HOW TO STAY SAFE ONLINE, WITHIN NEW AND EXISTING SCHOOL SUBJECTS JUNE 2019 June 30,...

June 30, 2019 The DfE has produced a draft of KCSIE 2019 which will come into force on 2nd September. There are comparatively few changes from the current v...

September 16, 2016 CHILDREN MISSING EDUCATION This is an update on guidance issued January 2015 and will be reviewed by September 2019. It applies to all sch...

December 22, 2017 This new guidance is DfE advice and so highlights best practice, but is not statutory guidance. The Statutory guidance will come when Keepi...

July 9, 2018 The finalised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children was published on July 4th 2018. This is the statutory guidance to implement the ...

July 9, 2018 This is a short, but very useful piece of non-statutory guidance that clarifies the importance of and procedures for information sharing in rela...

July 9, 2018 There has been an update to the statutory guidance to Disqualification Under the Childcare Act 2006 at the moment it is a draft and is expected ...

The new OFSTED Documentation to come into force in September 2019 have just been issued, including the Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and ...

February 19, 2016 One of the government’s many 2016 targets for schools is mental health. This week the BBC’s ‘In the Mind’ week, following on from Children’...

May 14, 2016 I realise that I have not written a blog since Easter of this year (2106). This has not been because I had nothing to say, but I am feeling worn...

June 19, 2016 So many people have spoken of shock, anger and sadness at the pointless death of a mother of two, murdered in broad daylight in a Yorkshire vil...

Unfortunately there has been another terrorist attack, so I have collected some links to advice for talking to children. Hope they are useful. NSPCC- support...

July 22, 2016 As the school year 2015-16 comes to its end, like so many teachers, I am saying goodbye to pupils and colleagues. In my case, particularly so, ...