Management Information Sheet
Keeping Children Safe in Education (DfE) - May 2022 revisions
Revised Statutory Guidance
On 20 May 2022, the Department for Education (DfE) published a revised version of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE). The revised guidance for is information only at this stage so that schools and colleges can plan for the commencement of the guidance on 1 September 2022. Until this time, the existing statutory guidance, Keeping Children Safe in Education 2021 is still in force and schools and colleges must continue to have regard to it.
Key changes
Annex F of the draft guidance includes a Table of Substantive Changes from the 2021 document and a table of significant revisions is attached, below.
What should schools and colleges do?
- Read KCSiE giving particular consideration to the changes.
- Review all relevant policy documents, procedures and training and devise an action plan to implement required changes in preparation for 1 September 2022.
- Ensure that the final version of the guidance is accessed and disseminated to staff when it is published.
What the Education Safeguarding Team are doing?
- We will be offering a DSL webinar on the key changes.
- We will be updating the Norfolk model safeguarding policy, forms and templates and the whole school training package to reflect these amendments. We will Tweet once the policy and training package have been updated and are available on the Norfolk Schools and Learning Providers website.
- It is likely the forms and templates and modules of training will be updated over the summer holidays.
Please see the attached document for the table of the most significant revisions to the document including in:
- The summary
- Part one
- Part two: Safeguarding training for governing bodies and proprietors, The Human Rights Act 1998, Equality Act 2010, public sector equality duty, teaching about safeguarding, children who are lesbian, gay, bi or trans (LGBT)
- Part three: CVs, due diligence checks on shortlisted candidates
- Part four: Sharing low level concerns
- Part five: Safeguarding and supporting the victim
- Annex A
- Annex B: Mental health, child exploitation, confidentiality, online safety advice