Trust Safeguarding Professional Community

The CST Trust 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. CST Hive is a 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:

Half-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.

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Session overview

Upcoming sessions

Recordings of previous sessions can be accessed via the community platform.

Session three: How academies and trusts can become more inclusive, especially around the LGBTQ+ agenda

Thursday 14 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Speakers: Raminder Aujla from the White Rose Academies Trust and Evie Cryer from Oasis Community Learning

This session follows on from our member meeting on DfE’s transgender guidance consultation in which we were joined by Stone King. The aim of this meeting is not to focus solely on trans issues, but to look at how academies and trusts can become more inclusive especially around the LGBTQ+ agenda.

We will be joined by Raminder Aujla from the White Rose Academies Trust who will talk about a strategic approach to LGBTQ+ that includes a potential response to the trans consultation. Evie Cryer from Oasis Community Learning will then speak to us around the operational aspects of becoming a school that is inclusive of all gender expressions both for staff and pupils.