The latest news and insights from Anchored Schools
Here you will find news, blogs, and commentary on all topics around safeguarding, attendance, behaviour, PSHE, and SEND. We provide updates on new guidance and legislation, information and resources for schools, and offer our insight based on our extensive experience and the work that we do with our schools.
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School Attendance Website Pages
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.
Site Safety in Schools
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.
Mandatory Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse
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.
Aligning your school’s security and safeguarding
Using the new DfE guidance documents to ensure that security measures align with your safeguarding policies and procedures.
Online Safeguarding Reporting Tools
3 questions DSLs should be asking that can help them improve the way they use electronic systems
How robust is your signing in procedure?
How robust is your school’s signing in procedure? How to keep yours in line with guidance and part of your overall safeguarding practices.
Using case studies to help you demonstrate effective safeguarding
5 tips for creating case studies to showcase best practice in safeguarding using real examples.
Anti-Bullying Week: best practice for recording allegations
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.
How to assess impact via student voice
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.
What Should I Include in a Safeguarding Report to Governors?
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.