Safeguarding professional community

Safeguarding is a key statutory responsibility for school trusts, but it is more than that: it is a moral imperative.

It is also an increasingly complex area, that needs agility and innovation to protect children in a rapidly changing social landscape.

Our community explores emergent thinking on the statutory role of education in safeguarding, including how trusts can use their structures to create a contemporary approach to safeguarding. 

We also focus on the wellbeing of safeguarding teams themselves, as professionals often confronted with emotionally-charged and distressing situations.

We aim to provide support and development opportunities, through a blend of expert input on key practice challenges, facilitated discussion, and networking.

The community offers a safe and supportive environment in which to develop your understanding of some of the key challenges related to safeguarding at scale, through:

• Termly online community meetings featuring expert voices
• Topical webinars on emerging issues
• Our community site, which connects you with trust leaders across the country through a dedicated website and mobile apps
• Community resources and blogs from our members and partners
• Priority access to our annual in-person CST Safeguarding Conference

Our professional communities are an integral part of CST membership, and taking part is open to all staff and governance volunteers of member trusts.