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Safeguarding Refresher

Training

Academic Year 2025-2026

Safeguarding is everybody’s business

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TRAINING AGREEMENT & SELF CARE

Talking about child abuse can be a distressing and sensitive issue. Please ensure that you look after yourself and colleagues if you are affected by the training.

Confidentiality.

Respect each other’s views.

Please switch your phones to silent.

Time keeping.

Please ask questions – no question is a silly one!

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What’s coming up?

Changes in statutory guidance

Harm Outside the Home and Safer Connections

Online Safety

Safer Working Practice

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Harm Outside The Home�(HOTH)

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The Bristol Harm outside the Home Strategy 2025-2030 – our joint partnership response to the complex risks facing children, young people, and young adults in spaces beyond their families and homes.

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The concept of ‘harm outside the home’ encapsulates the multifaceted evolving nature of exploitation and risks to children and young people in various domains outside of their familial home. ��Bristol Harm outside the Home Strategy

Child Sexual Exploitation

Child Criminal Exploitation

County Lines

Serious Youth Violence

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

Debt Bondage

Serious Organised Crime

For this strategy, this umbrella term includes, but is not limited to, the forms of exploitation and extra familial harm: Go through the list and ask the room what is meant by each of these headings- this will ensure that they have an awareness of the terms. You can elaborate using the prompts below. �

Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)

Involves coercion, control, or deception of a child into sexual activity.

Exploitation may be for something the child needs or for the perpetrator’s gain.

Can occur online and doesn’t always involve physical contact.

Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)

Children are manipulated or forced into criminal activity.

Driven by power imbalance and can happen online.

Includes activities like theft, drug trafficking, or violence.

County Lines

A form of CCE involving drug distribution across regions.

Children and vulnerable adults are exploited to transport drugs, money, or weapons.

Often linked to violence and coercion.

Serious Youth Violence

Targets under-25s involved in public space violence.

Includes knife/gun crime, robbery, GBH, and drug-related violence.

Often connected to county lines and modern slavery.

Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking

Exploitation through forced labour, servitude, or slavery.

Trafficking involves movement and control of victims for exploitation.

Affects both children and adults.

Debt Bondage

Victims are trapped by debts owed to exploiters.

Repayment may involve criminal acts like drug transportation.

A coercive and manipulative form of exploitation.

Serious Organised Crime

Involves coordinated criminal activity by individuals or networks.

Includes drug trafficking, exploitation, and violence.

Often across many countries and highly structured.

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The Corporate Strategy

Priority 1 objectives:

Improve equity in educational outcomes and break the link between deprivation and poorer results

Target funding to all education providers to enhance inclusion for children with SEND.

Co-develop a shared education vision with education providers, voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

Focus on improving outcomes for children and young people from deprived backgrounds.

Deliver a joint workforce plan in priority areas, leveraging the city's wider resources.

Work with the local SEND partnership to ensure children and families are central to our practice.

Bristol is supporting the national government’s ambition for breaking down barriers to opportunity through growth. Bristol is viewed as one of the UK’s most successful cities, but it is also a city of deep inequality.

Children’s education is too often negatively impacted by deprivation, race or special educational needs and disabilities, and access to fulfilling and well-paid jobs is not evenly spread across Bristol.

Like many cities, the opportunities for good work are harder to come by for adults with learning needs, disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and those with caring responsibilities.

Breaking the link between deprivation and educational outcomes, and building a thriving, creative and inclusive economy are essential to becoming a fairer city, tackling poverty.

On the screen is Priority 1 from the Corporate Strategy

What the Council Will Campaign For

Partner with the Department for Education (DfE) to break the link between deprivation and poor educational outcomes
Support the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and tackle child poverty
Collaborate with central government to test national approaches for improving SEND inclusion and outcomes.

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The vision is to eliminate inequalities so that every child in Bristol, regardless of who they are or where they are born, is given the best chance of having a safe and healthy childhood, where they feel included and are supported to reach their full potential.

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In your groups, 5 – 10 minute discussion…

What are the short and long-term impacts of living in poverty?

How do you identify the children in your setting who may be affected by poverty?

What are the barriers to supporting families who may be experiencing poverty?

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Take a break and check in with each other

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What have children and young people with SEND told us about their lives?

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Supporting Children and Young People with SEND��1. Understand Strengths and Needs��2. Listen and Collaborate��3. Timely and Effective Support��4. Inclusive Education��5. Future Preparation��6. Safety and Belonging��

This is what inclusion strategy has said is needed- read though the list and use the notes below to help explain the list.

Understand Strengths and Needs�Work with children, young people, and parent carers to identify what they excel at, what challenges they face, and what support they need to thrive.��Listen and Collaborate�Value the voices of children, young people, and parent carers—making decisions together as equal partners.��Timely and Effective Support�Provide the right help at the right time to enable positive outcomes.��Inclusive Education�Develop high-quality, inclusive educational provision that meets diverse needs.��Future Preparation�Support children and young people through life transitions, helping them reach their full potential.��Safety and Belonging�Foster environments where children and young people feel safe, included, and part of their communities.

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Supporting Children and Young People with SEND��1. Understand Strengths and Needs��2. Listen and Collaborate��3. Timely and Effective Support��4. Inclusive Education��5. Future Preparation��6. Safety and Belonging��

In your groups, 10 minute discussion…

Think about how your setting responds to and demonstrates support for children with SEND

Consider each of the 6 areas listed.

What are your strengths?

What do you think is not working as well as it could?

What changes do you think you could make to ensure more effective practice?

In your groups take 10 minutes to discuss.

You may wish to dived the room up and ask each group to focus on one or two.

For each of the 6 points, consider as a setting:

What are your strengths?

What do you think is not working as well as it could?

What changes do you think you could make to ensure more effective practice?

Ask for feedback. What areas do you need to consider working on and where do your real strengths lie?

Understand Strengths and Needs�Work with children, young people, and parent carers to identify what they excel at, what challenges they face, and what support they need to thrive.��Listen and Collaborate�Value the voices of children, young people, and parent carers—making decisions together as equal partners.��Timely and Effective Support�Provide the right help at the right time to enable positive outcomes.��Inclusive Education�Develop high-quality, inclusive educational provision that meets diverse needs.��Future Preparation�Support children and young people through life transitions, helping them reach their full potential.��Safety and Belonging�Foster environments where children and young people feel safe, included, and part of their communities.

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We will work to keep our children safe, stable and wherever possible, within their families and communities. We, along with our partner agencies, will provide our families, carers and workforce with the right support to enable this to happen and create lasting change, putting children and families at the heart of every decision.

Early Help Locality Project: This pilot project focuses on developing a partnership approach to preventative early help for children, young people, and families in Bristol. By working collaboratively with local partners, the aim is to provide timely and effective support to prevent issues from escalating.�
Valuing Families: The goal is to keep families together with the right support, whenever it is safe to do so. Children thrive best within their family environments, and in Bristol we are committed to providing the necessary resources and assistance to make this possible.�
Fostering: We are dedicated to growing Bristol’s fostering community so that children in care can be closer to home, in a family setting. By expanding the fostering network, more children can experience the stability and love of a family environment.�
Stability: Supporting care arrangements to ensure children remain in stable and happy homes is a top priority. Stability is crucial for the well-being and development of children, and we are committed to maintaining consistent and supportive care environments.�
Coming Home Planning: This work focuses on bringing children back to their communities and family-based settings from children’s homes outside of Bristol. Children should grow up in familiar surroundings, close to their support networks.�
Permanence: Ensuring that children grow up in a loving home where they belong is at the heart of the permanence strategy. We are dedicated to finding permanent, stable homes for children, providing them with the security and sense of belonging they need.�
Commissioning Partnerships: Strengthening and developing the commissioning partnerships is essential to achieving better outcomes for our children. By working closely with partners, we can ensure that services are effectively coordinated and meet the needs of children and families.

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Martyn’s law�

Martyn’s Law, refers to organisational preparedness by requiring that those responsible for certain premises and events consider how they would respond to a terrorist attack.

There are 2 years before it will be enforced.

Schools/ settings in standard tier:

Notify the Security Industry Authority (SIA) of their premises; and

Have in place, so far as reasonably practicable, appropriate public protection procedures.

If you have any questions about Martyn’s Law, please contact the Safeguarding in Education Team

Linking in with the Harms Outside the Home Strategy we wanted to share an overview of some upcoming legislation – don’t panic!

Preparedness Overview

Aim: Help staff at public premises/events reduce harm and save lives during an attack.
Focus: Practical, proportionate actions.

🟦 Standard Tier (200–799 people)

Applies to smaller venues.
Requirements are simple and low-cost:

Lock doors
Close shutters
Identify safe routes

No need for physical security measures.
Responsibilities:

Notify the Security Industry Authority (SIA).
Put in place basic protection procedures to reduce harm.

🟥 Enhanced Tier (800+ people)

Applies to larger venues and public events.
Includes all standard tier actions plus:

Measures to reduce vulnerability to terrorism.
Measures to reduce risk of physical harm.

Examples:

Bag searches
CCTV or monitoring
Vehicle checks

Responsibilities:

Notify the SIA.
Implement protection procedures and security measures.
Document and submit these to the SIA.