CPD & Staffing

🔄 Updated for 2026 in line with KCSIE

Supporting your safeguarding link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you this with four fully editable resources designed to strengthen safeguarding governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

☑️ Safeguarding Questions for Governors and Trustees – 13 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the safeguarding link governor and key school staff such as the DSL or headteacher, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ Safeguarding Spot Check Questions for Governors – a focused set of questions that can be asked of teaching staff, support staff and further roles for safeguarding link governors to use during school visits, covering the key areas of safeguarding culture, policy and day-to-day practice

☑️ Safeguarding Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering safeguarding data and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need

☑️ Safeguarding Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the safeguarding governor's key responsibilities, ideal for onboarding a new governor or bringing clarity to an existing role

All resources are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

Looking to recruit a new special educational needs and/or disabilities co-ordinator (SENDCo)? If you’re thinking about the interview process and what tasks and questions to ask at interview to recruit the right candidate for your school, this SENDCo Interview Pack will support your thinking and save you time in the recruitment process. 

🎒 Updated for 2026

Strong parent engagement doesn't happen by accident. This practical pack gives school leaders and pastoral leads the tools to audit, plan and improve how your school builds relationships with families, from welcoming new parents in September to supporting harder-to-reach families year-round.

You'll get:

☑️ A comprehensive audit tool covering leadership and culture, communication, parent voice, learning at home, attendance and behaviour, SEND and inclusion, staff development and impact and evaluation as well as a structured action plan for recording priorities and next steps from the audit

☑️ A whole-school parent engagement checklist covering the full academic year from pre-September planning through to end-of-year evaluation

☑️ A new parent induction checklist to support consistent, structured family onboarding from the day a place is confirmed

All templates and checklists are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

Ideal for headteachers, deputy headteachers, assistant headteachers with responsibility for family liaison or pastoral care, DSLs, SENDCos and link governors for parent engagement.

Dealing with complaints - whether from parents, carers or community members - can be one of the most challenging aspects of school leadership. With vexatious complaints against schools and the number of instances of parents complaining on the rise, headteachers and SLT need ways of managing complaints and, crucially, preventing complaints from occurring when possible.

This checklist is designed to do exactly that and allows school leaders to review their processes in order to prevent complaints from parents but also to manage legitimate complaints carefully. It covers the following key areas:

• Complaint prevention
• What to do following the receipt of a school complaint
• Complaint investigation
• Complaint resolution
• Managing persistent, serial and vexatious complaints

Use the checklist to evaluate your current position when it comes to school concerns and complaints, such as how effectively you build and manage relationships with parents/carers and your use of communication to maintain a culture of mutual respect in school. This can help you to identify areas to develop to bolster your efforts in maintaining strong relationships and addressing concerns before they develop into a bigger issue, thus helping to prevent complaints from forming.

When complaints do occur, the checklist can support you to think about your processes in order to listen, investigate and respond to complaints in order to find a resolution for all parties. It also allows you to consider your complaints policy and whether the details in it support you, as a school leader, to deal with complaints, including complaints that are persistent, serial or vexatious.