Tes proactive safeguarding toolkit 2026

Move your school from compliance to culture.

Six training scenarios. Three reference frameworks. One 90-day plan. Free for UK and international schools.

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Trusted by schools, trusts and groups using KCSIE 2025, BISSC, COBIS, CIS, ECIS and BSO.

Tes Safeguarding toolkits

The problem

94.2% of staff feel confident. 83.4% are consistent. That gap costs children.
Every school has the policy. The training. The system. What schools don’t have is a shared way to test whether staff would actually agree on what to do when a real situation lands. This toolkit is built for that test!

What's Inside

74 pages. Designed to be used in team meetings and real life practice.

  • Six training scenarios with stop-points

    Pause for discussion. Surface where your team agrees, disagrees, and where culture is tested.

  • The agency navigator

    Every body you may need to contact, with thresholds, timeframes and protocols.

  • The consistency diagnostic

    Tools to audit reporting routes, the DSL role, and staff response, as a team.

  • The training maturity matrix

    What good looks like across induction, annual, role-specific and just-in-time training.

  • The escalation framework

    Decision rights for DSL, SLT, trust or group level.

  • The recordkeeping standard

    The five tests of a complete record.

  • The 90-day implementation plan

    A template to translate diagnosis into action.

Plus: leadership question bank, references, facilitator guide for 60-minute team sessions.

Two editions

UK edition

For schools, academies, trusts, independent schools and AP.

Aligned to KCSIE 2025, Working Together 2023, the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, Ofsted EIF.

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International edition

For British international schools and groups, COBIS, CIS, ECIS, BSO and IB schools.

Aligned to BISSC Safer Recruitment Code, accreditation standards, host-country frameworks.

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SAW international toolkit

Who it's for

  • For DSLs and deputies: Training scenarios you can run with your team. The reference material that stays on the desk.
  • For heads and principals: The leadership questions. The escalation framework. The case for protected DSL time.
  • For trust and group leaders: The cross-school pattern framework. The governance brief. The benchmark conversation.
  • For governors and trustees: The questions to ask. The standard to expect. The reporting that goes beyond met or not met.

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