Safeguarding pupils

Keeping children safe in education, including guidance around drugs, radicalisation and gangs.

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Services

• Report serious teacher misconduct

  How to report a teacher - what counts as serious misconduct, what information to include in your report, when you may need to attend a teacher misconduct hearing.

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Guidance and regulation

• Keeping children safe in education
  • Statutory guidance
  • 24 May 2024
  • Department for Education
• Working together to safeguard children
  • Statutory guidance
  • 23 February 2024
  • Department for Education
• Making a referral to Prevent
  • Detailed guide
  • 7 September 2023
  • Department for Education
• Child abuse concerns: guide for practitioners
  • Guidance
  • 26 March 2015
  • Department for Education
• Searching, screening and confiscation in schools
  • Guidance
  • 19 July 2023
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

• Letter from Minister for Women and Equalities, to the Ofsted Chief Inspector
  • 23 June 2023
  • Equality Hub, Government Equalities Office, Department for Education, and Ofsted
  • Correspondence
• Ofsted's response to regulating supported accommodation
  • 26 January 2023
  • Ofsted
  • Correspondence
• British Embassy Bangkok hosts Child Safeguarding Conference for Thai schools
  • 1 March 2022
  • World news story
• New recovery fund to tackle harms facing vulnerable children
  • 8 July 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Children and Families Minister speech at ADCS annual conference
  • 8 July 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Speech

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Research and statistics

• Prevent referrals in higher education: approaches and practices
  • 26 November 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Ofsted review of sexual abuse: terms of reference
  • 7 April 2021
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Use of Keeping children safe in education part 4 guidance
  • 25 February 2020
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Knife crime: safeguarding children and young people in education
  • 16 September 2019
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Prevent and counter-extremism in further education colleges
  • 13 December 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Strengthening protections in unregistered alternative provision
  • 9 May 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 05 July 2024
• Working together to safeguard children: changes to statutory guidance
  • 15 December 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 06 September 2023
• Introducing regulations for supported accommodation provision
  • 23 March 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 16 January 2023
• Introducing new rules for supported accommodation providers: children and young people with experience of care
  • 23 March 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 16 January 2023
• Improving multi-agency information sharing
  • 10 August 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Education, children’s social care and offending
  • 20 July 2023
  • Department for Education and Ministry of Justice
  • Transparency
• Responses to our research into knife crime
  • 16 September 2019
  • Ofsted
  • Foi release
• Safeguarding children and young people: memorandum of understanding between Ofsted and DfE
  • 23 November 2016
  • Ofsted and Department for Education
  • Corporate report
• Powers of entry: Department for Education report
  • 18 December 2014
  • Department for Education
  • Corporate report
• Safeguarding children and safer recruitment in education
  • 20 April 2011
  • Department for Education
  • Foi release

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
• Government Equalities Office
• Home Office
• Ministry of Justice

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• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Teaching Regulation Agency
• Equality Hub

• Ofsted
• UK Council for Internet Safety