Designated Safeguarding Leads

Designated Safeguarding Leads Termly Forum

These sessions are held termly and meet Keeping Children Safe in Education 2019 and Working Together 2018 requirements.

Topics covered include Ofsted Safeguarding Inspection, Child Death Review, Child Safeguarding Practice Review and Local Learning Reviews.

Meeting papers and resources

02 October 2019

• Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Local Learning Reviews 2019
• Northern Lincolnshire Child Death Review Arrangements 2019
• Ofsted Inspections and Safeguarding – from September 2019
• DWP Family Support

21 March 2019

• Children’s MARS update
• Prevent briefing
• Prevent safeguarding referral form briefing
• Role of Community Cohesion Officer
• Ofsted research document ‘safeguarding children and young people from knife crime’

16 November 2020

• One Family Approach Briefing Presentation
• Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020 updates – handout
• 7 Minute Briefing – Children living with mental ill health
• 7 Minute Briefing – Children vulnerable to and/or experiencing child exploitation

Designated Safeguarding Leads

Training Requirements

Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL) should complete the Children’s MARS Child Protection masterclass training. Once completed, DSLs should not repeat this but should instead do one or a combination of the following, over a two year period…

• A Children’s MARS training module at masterclass level of their choosing. This will be certificated
• Attend some or all of the DSL termly update meetings. These draw upon Keeping Children Safe in Education 2019 and Working Together 2018. These will be certificated.
• Complete any relevant national online training
• Record any other training as part of continuous professional development e.g. National conferences or in house training.

This keeps DSLs up to date with local developments, allows them to develop specialist knowledge of specific safeguarding issues that may be more relevant to their specific role/school.

For new DSLs who are unable to book on a Child Protection masterclass due to it being full, a bespoke training session will be arranged. In such cases, please contact mars@northlincs.gov.uk.