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Safeguarding Record Keeping for Designated Safeguarding Leads 2024-25

Audience: DSLs
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This training will support Designated Safeguarding Leads in schools and early years settings to understand their role and responsibilities with regards to keeping “detailed, accurate, secure written records of concerns and referrals”.

Access to this course also includes access to a downloadable document: ‘Safeguarding Record Keeping Guidance for Designated Safeguarding Leads’.

The current version of this course is in line with ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ 2024.

Please note: The licence for this course will last one year from your date of purchase. The course should take approximately two hours to complete.

  • To understand the importance of effective record keeping within the current legislative framework.

  • To explore potential implications of data protection legislation and UK GDPR on record keeping approaches.

  • To develop an understanding of appropriate transfer and retention of records.

  • To explore examples of best practice with regards to robust record keeping in education.

This will enable DSLs to explore good and poor practice with regards to record keeping and will assist them in meeting their responsibilities to safeguard children as set out in statutory legislation and guidance.

Lessons include:

  • Introduction to Record Keeping
  • Staff Understanding and Expectations
  • Recording Concerns
  • The Safeguarding File
  • Information Sharing
  • Transfer and Retention of Records

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