**One Representative Per Education Setting**
Course: Designated Safeguarding Lead: Refresher Session (Virtual)
Date: 26 June 2025 — 9.30am-1pm
Trainer: Mike Smith, Independent Safeguarding and Child Protection Training Consultant
Location: Virtual — Zoom
Course Description:
This event is designed to offer designated safeguarding leads training to meet their statutory requirements for two yearly training suitable for their role.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course you will have:
— Refreshed your understanding of the Designated Safeguarding Lead’s role and responsibilities
— Updated your knowledge of key and emerging themes in safeguarding children
— Considered the key messages for education professionals from recent analyses of child safeguarding practice reviews, and
— Identified what constitutes an effective safeguarding culture in education settings.
The training is highly participative, and you are encouraged to bring questions and examples from your own professional practice. It will be informed throughout by relevant law, guidance, procedures, theory, child safeguarding practice reviews (formerly serious case reviews) and current research.
Target Audience:
School staff who are Designated Safeguarding Leads and have previously received training in this area. Please note that only one representative per setting can attend this training session.