Your website is a really useful tool for communicating your attendance policy and the support you offer for improving attendance. Here are 10 ideas about what to include and how to present it.

Your site team is responsible for the health and safety of your school, but it is within the remit of the DSL to ensure that it’s secure from a safeguarding perspective. Here are some pointers for surveying the site and what to look out for.

The Home Office has issued a press release regarding the statutory requirement for those working with young people to report incidents of child sexual abuse. Here’s what that means for schools.

Using the new DfE guidance documents to ensure that security measures align with your safeguarding policies and procedures.

3 questions DSLs should be asking that can help them improve the way they use electronic systems

How robust is your school’s signing in procedure? How to keep yours in line with guidance and part of your overall safeguarding practices.

5 tips for creating case studies to showcase best practice in safeguarding using real examples.

Recording allegations of bullying is as important as tackling it. As we approach Anti-Bullying Week 2022, we look at some good practice around recording incidents and how it can help you deal with the issue.

Getting meaningful feedback from pupils on the impact of your pastoral care processes is key to evaluating it but it can be difficult to do effectively. Here are some of the ways you can do that.

Is your website compliant with DfE requirements and does it demonstrate best practice in terms of the information shared? We can audit your site and create an action plan to enable you to not only meet the basic requirements but tick all the boxes of exemplary practice.

The Covid-19 pandemic had a huge impact on attendance so schools need to know how to report attendance for Ofsted inspection, including how the pandemic affected your school and the steps taken to achieve high attendance through this period and thereafter. We look at how you can report this and the data you need.

Does your attendance policy include everything it needs to? Does it include things it doesn’t need to? Our attendance policy checklist helps you ensure that your policy is robust, fit for purpose, and focused.

It is best practice to keep Safeguarding Governors up to speed on safeguarding issues in the school. We recommend providing a termly report. Here is our guide to the areas this report should cover.

There is a DfE requirement for schools to confirm that staff are not disqualified from childcare for the single central record, especially in primary and EYS settings. We offer some clarification on which members of staff are covered by this legislation.

Updated for September 2021, we are delighted to offer places on our online Single Central Record workshop. Suitable for anyone who has to update, maintain or check this key document.

As from Thursday 3rd September we will be launching a new weekly, term time newsletter. We are excited about this development as we know we can support more of you more frequently through this…

After a period of planning and creating, we are proud to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website. We wanted a new website to better outline our services, share resources and provide information for all of our customers and for all the hardworking pastoral staff in schools, colleges, charities, and out of school provision all over the country…