Dear Colleague, 

To help address your training needs and plan ahead for the next academic year, we've introduced new workshops and courses and released dates for our 2023-24 Safeguarding Training programme, which is free for all schools.

Watch this clip for an overview of the newsletter

FREE Prevent Workshop

This new 1 hour interactive workshop takes you through the new DfE Prevent Self-Assessment tool, enabling you to review, identify gaps and formulate a whole school action plan. ** It is best to attend 'Prevent Duty for School Safeguarding' first

KCSIE Quizzes - Analysis

Thousands of colleagues have been using our KCSIE Quizzes and the data is helping to show where there are gaps in knowledge. Watch this space for more on this, but as a starter: 43% of staff were unable to identify the definition of filtering. Have you been on our Filtering for DSLs course yet?

Free Neglect Training

Don't forget to book our 2hr Introduction to Neglect Course as well as the 30 min Short courses:

1. Adolescent Neglect
2. Affluent Neglect
3. Neglect and Disabled Children
4. Neglect and Cumulative Harm

** It is best to attend 'Introduction to Neglect' first

Safeguarding Blog

Neglect and Disabled Children

Our new blog post is out now and explores why disabled children are more likely to experience neglect. Subscribe to our blog to get it delivered to your inbox.

We have also created a free infographic (see picture) on this topic for you to download and use.

And Everything Else!

In addition to the above, don't forget we also regularly deliver all these courses too. Course dates for 2023-24 have just been published too.

• Online Safeguarding Essentials: Online Sexual Abuse and Harms
• Online Safeguarding Essentials: Principles, Approaches & Curriculum
• Prevent duty for school Safeguarding
• County Lines
• Safeguarding for Governors
• Filtering and Monitoring for DSLs

Best of the Rest

Here are a few links which you may find useful:

1. New DfE web filtering standards, DfE March 2023 - we will be providing more guidance in the coming weeks on these new standards.

2. Capture: who's looking after the children? - A film from the Financial Times looking at online harms, regulation and responsibility. A great watch for parents.

3. Multi-agency Practice Principles for responding to child exploitation and extra-familial harm, The Tackling Child Exploitation (TCE) Support Programme, 2023. In conjunction with the principles is this Practice Tool which you may find helpful.

Don't forget there's lots happening at LGfL beyond safeguarding:

• Missed the #LetsAssemble Conference? Catch up here 
• Other training from LGfL teams
• Find out all we do beyond broadband here
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Mark, Mubina and Alex

Your LGfL DigiSafe Team

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