Designated Safeguarding Lead Resources

🔒 Aligned with KCSIE 2026 – ready to deliver from September.

Select whether you need the primary or secondary pack below You can also buy half-terms individually. 👇

🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2026

This comprehensive safeguarding audit pack provides DSLs, child protection leads and SLT with everything needed to review safeguarding culture, systems and compliance across the eight key areas that matter most to inspectors.

☑️ Complete 46-page safeguarding audit document covering strategic leadership, operational management, staff training, safer recruitment, child-on-child violence, site safety and continuous improvement, with structured questions and evidence prompts to evaluate current provision and identify next steps

☑️ 18-page step-by-step audit guidance explaining how to conduct effective safeguarding audits, triangulate evidence, and avoid common pitfalls when reviewing school provision

☑️ Ready-to-use templates and tools including action plan template, safeguarding evidence checklist, stakeholder question bank for staff, pupils, parents and governors, plus one-page summary template for SLT and governing body reporting

Ideal for DSLs, deputy DSLs, headteachers and safeguarding leaders reviewing statutory compliance, preparing for inspection or strengthening safeguarding practice.

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👉 This audit pack is part of our Complete School Leadership Audit Set, which includes eleven audits in one purchase, saving you money whilst ensuring you can evaluate your entire school provision across all Ofsted evaluation areas plus three essential good practice audits.

🔒 Designed from KCSIE 2026 and Working Together to Safeguard Children – free to download.

Planning ongoing safeguarding training across a full academic year is one of those tasks that matters but rarely has dedicated time attached to it. This free safeguarding training planner gives you a half-termly framework to map your whole-school safeguarding CPD from September to July – without having to work out the sequencing yourself.

☑️ Six half-termly themes, each covering the key KCSIE topics relevant to that period of the year
☑️ Checklist-style layout so you can track what's been covered and what's still to come
☑️ Grounded in spaced practice – designed to keep staff knowledge active across the year, not just refreshed in September
☑️ Flexible – use it as written or adapt it to reflect your school's priorities and community context
☑️ Links to ready-made resources for each half-term so you can move straight from plan to delivery

Each half-term section explains not just what to cover but why that theme sits in that part of the year, so the rationale is built in if you need to explain your training plan to a headteacher, governor or inspector.

👉 Got the plan – now need the resources? The Safeguarding Training Pack – Full Year gives you everything on this planner, ready to deliver – training PowerPoints and full sets of scenarios, snapshots and quizzes for every half-term, aligned to KCSIE 2026.

Thinking about doing a spot check on your safeguarding and child protection procedures or wondering what Ofsted will ask about safeguarding when they visit in 2026? This pack, perfect for school leaders and DSLs, has been designed to give you the tools to gather a snapshot view of safeguarding in your setting, allowing you to gain insight into how others could view your safeguarding practice.  

Updated to meet the safeguarding and welfare requirements in the September 2025 EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers, this EYFS Safeguarding and Welfare Checklist is ideal for any EYFS leader who's looking to explore safeguarding and child welfare in their setting. It's suitable for EYFS leaders in both school-based settings as well as group-based providers such as nurseries and preschools, and is built from all of the safeguarding and welfare requirements in section 3 of the EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers (and therefore isn't applicable to childminders).

The checklist walks you through different criteria about welfare and safeguarding in the EYFS, allowing you to identify your current strengths and make a plan for any areas of development. The following broad areas are included in the checklist:

• Child Protection
• Recruitment
  
• Training and Qualifications
• Staff Ratios
• Child Health
• Behaviour
• Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND)
• Premises and Equipment
• Record Keeping
• Safer Eating
• Whistleblowing

Each section can help you to critically reflect on your safeguarding procedures and processes, allowing you to keep every child safe as well as ensuring compliance with safeguarding requirements in the EYFS.

Every early years leader should ensure they're aware of their setting's strengths and levels of compliance when it comes to safeguarding as well as ensuring any weaknesses are addressed quickly. This information should be regularly reviewed so it's ideal to keep copies and records together, such as in an EYFS leader folder. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective early years leader folder, this template along with many more, are also included in our EYFS Leader Folder Pack.

🔄 Updated for 2026 in line with KCSIE

Safeguarding governors need to do more than review data at termly meetings – they also have a role in checking, in the moment, that safeguarding culture, policy and practice are working as they should day to day. These spot check questions give safeguarding link governors a practical tool for doing exactly that.

Whether dipping into a specific area of practice, having a quick conversation with a member of staff or checking that procedures are being followed on the ground, this template provides ready-to-use questions for governors to use during informal visits and spot checks in school.

You'll get:

☑️ Safeguarding Spot Check Questions – a focused set of questions for safeguarding link governors to use during school visits, covering the key areas of safeguarding culture, policy and day-to-day practice

Fully editable so you can adapt it to reflect your school's context and priorities.

👉 This set of questions is also available in the larger Safeguarding Link Governor Support Pack, which has a set of deeper, more strategic set of safeguarding questions, a safeguarding report to governors template and a roles and responsibilities document.

🎒Updated for the 2025-2026 academic year

Conduct a thorough audit of your school's mental health and wellbeing provision with this comprehensive toolkit designed specifically for school leaders.

Reflecting current expectations and DfE guidance on mental health in schools, this pack gives you everything you need to evaluate your provision, identify gaps and create an actionable improvement plan.

You'll get:

☑️ Full editable audit tool (38 pages) – comprehensive questions covering pupil wellbeing, staff mental health, PSHE delivery, pastoral support systems, early intervention, partnerships with external agencies and whole-school culture

☑️ Supporting templates – action plan to prioritise your findings, document checklist to gather evidence, question bank to support your work with stakeholders, and one-page summary template for reporting to governors or trustees

☑️ 18-page mental health audit guidance – step-by-step instructions on planning and conducting your audit, including what evidence to gather, who to involve and how to approach this sensitive area systematically

All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context, whether you're a small primary, large secondary or special school.

🔎 Want a closer look? Click here to preview the audit pack🔗 

👉 This audit pack is part of our Complete School Leadership Audit Set, which includes eleven audits in one purchase, saving you money whilst ensuring you can evaluate your entire school provision across all Ofsted evaluation areas plus three essential good practice audits.