Safeguarding professional community

The CST Safeguarding professional community is a unique development network for school trust safeguarding leads to support effective safeguarding at scale.

The professional community provides support and development opportunities at a time of unprecedented change, through a blend of expert input on key practice challenges, facilitated discussion, and networking.

The community provides a safe and supportive environment in which to develop your understanding of some of the key challenges related to operational practice across a group of schools, access expertise from across the sector, and build a professional network.

As a member of the community, you will also gain exclusive access to our virtual platform. The peer learning platform that connects you with a community of information, resources and support, that you can access anytime and anywhere. On the platform you'll find an ever-growing collection of resources, containing information about key knowledge areas needed in our profession, as well as a space to connect, learn and interact with your peers from across the country.

CST's professional communities focus on the concept of ‘practice challenges’ and engage through:

  • Termly virtual community meetings.
  • A one-day Professional Community conference.
  • Networking with colleagues across our sector.
  • Access to CST briefings and guidance.

Membership of the community is included for employees of member trusts as a benefit of CST membership. Join using the button below with your MyCST membership details.

Join our Safeguarding professional community

Session overview

Session One
Speakers: James Down, Safeguarding Officer, Brooke Weston Trust 
Thursday 21 November 2024

Safeguarding governance 

Assuring your board about the effectiveness of safeguarding in your trust can be a challenging task. How much information is too much? How do you stay strategic? How do you assure them around those all-important cultural components of effective safeguarding? In this session, we will examine how best to report on strategic safeguarding, so that trustees and the governance professionals who support them have the information they need.

Session Two
Thursday 20 March 2025

Session Three
Thursday 26 June 2025

 


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Contact details

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Nottingham    NG9 8AD

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