Consultation outcome

Keeping children safe in education

From:: Department for Education
Published: 28 March 2013
Last updated: 3 April 2014 — See all updates

Read the full outcome

Consultation on keeping children safe in education: government response

PDF, 346 KB, 26 pages

Detail of outcome

A summary response to each consultation question and the government’s response.

Original consultation

Consultation description

The purpose of this consultation is to gather views on the government’s proposals to reform safeguarding requirements and guidance in schools and further education colleges by:

issuing new safeguarding guidance to schools and further education colleges to replace the current ‘Safeguarding children and safer recruitment in education’ and
removing the regulation which makes it a requirement for at least one member of a recruitment panel in a school to have undertaken training in safer recruitment approved by the Secretary of State.

Documents

Consultation document

MS Word Document, 69.5 KB

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