My thoughts about the issues schools will face when they re-open fully after the lockdown, including some ideas to help prepare for this.

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...

For the new school year, the government has produced a finalised version of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2019. There are not...

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

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

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

Effective use of Teaching Assistants and/or Learning Support Assistants is an ongoing issue for schools. Good well trained and deployed...

16th February 2017 has seen a  minor amendment to Working Together to Safeguard Children to extend the definition of Sexual abuse to...

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

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

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

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...

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

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,...

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,...

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...

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