Safeguarding

The latest news, analysis and professional advice on keeping children safe, including new legislation, KCSIE updates, case studies from DSLs and more

Thursday

20th Mar 2025

International schools group’s bid to make schools ‘vape-free zones’
The zero-tolerance approach will see detectors installed in schools and random bag checks, as well as anti-vaping education for all students
International schools group’s bid to make schools ‘vape-free zones’

Wednesday

19th Mar 2025

Are your male students caught in ‘the manosphere’?
Online misogyny is a growing problem, further highlighted by recent TV drama Adolescence. Safeguarding lead Thomas Michael explores three key terms school staff should understand
Safeguarding: are your male students caught in ‘the manosphere’?

Tuesday

18th Mar 2025

Labour MPs block Tory bid to ban mobile phones in schools
Measures are already in place to allow schools to ban phones, says education minister
child on phone with red case

Friday

14th Mar 2025

Social media being ‘weaponised’ against schools and teachers
ASCL president tells conference that tech billionaires should be forced to protect pupils from the dangers of their technology
A leading figure in a headteachers' union will call on social media platforms to be brought to heel.

Thursday

13th Mar 2025

What DSLs need to know about race, racism and safeguarding
The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s latest report on how children from Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage backgrounds experience safeguarding processes contains vital insights for leaders, says Luke Ramsden
Race, racism and safeguarding: 5 issues DSLs need to know

Thursday

6th Mar 2025

4 ways to discuss affluent neglect with parents
A leader in China offers guidance on how to tackle the tricky topic of neglect with parents who, on the surface, provide their children with everything they could need
Child looking at chalk drawing of a family

Wednesday

5th Mar 2025

Behaviour overtakes workload as a top concern for primary teachers
Teachers in primary are also more worried about support for pupils’ social, emotional and mental health needs, research shows
Primary school boy annoyed

Tuesday

11th Feb 2025

2 in 3 teachers lack allergy awareness training
Poll reveals almost all teachers have pupils with allergies in school, but less than a third have allergy awareness training
Table with a variety of allergenic foods

Monday

10th Feb 2025

Raise age limits for social media, say primary teachers
Teachers want social media platforms to make safety controls easier to use and children’s access to be linked to parent or carer accounts
Raise social media age thresholds, say primary teachers
Exclusive
3 ways to tackle conspiracy theories in the classroom
We need to give teachers the knowledge and confidence to counter the growing rise in conspiracy theory beliefs among young people, a new report says
Man leaving footprint on moon

Thursday

6th Feb 2025

Gilruth pauses school ‘sex survey’ amid concerns over data availability
Education secretary has recognised the ‘strength of feeling’ over use of data from health and wellbeing census that asked upper secondary school students about sex and relationships
Gilruth with Venus and Mars

Wednesday

29th Jan 2025

What’s really going on with teenage girls?
There is a gender divide when it comes to students’ mental health, with girls more likely to experience challenges. Zofia Niemtus tries to find out why
Teenage girl looking vulnerable