Safeguarding will always be an issue of critical importance in education. From boards, through trust leaders, Designated Safeguarding Leads, and on to all frontline staff, everyone has a role to play. We all need to be clear on its importance, and to recognise the growing complexity of safeguarding issues and the pressures that can come with attempting to deliver excellence in safeguarding without a considered, strategic approach. Updated January 2024.
In this updated paper, Browne Jacobson's Dai Durbridge draws upon developing practice from across the school trust sector to propose a model for the delivery of safeguarding at scale in trusts of all sizes. This model offers a framework which trusts can use to inform their own strategic development of safeguarding structures and practice. It focuses on governance and structure, offers ideas about how to drive consistency and efficiency at scale, promotes a ‘one-team’ approach to safeguarding across the trust, and encourages trusts to develop a three to five year safeguarding strategy.
