Free School Leadership Resources

🆓 Free download – aligned to Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026

Share the key KCSIE 2026 updates with your staff quickly and confidently with this ready-made information sharing session. 

This free PowerPoint and accompanying handout gives DSLs, safeguarding leads and school leaders a clear, structured way to walk staff through the Part One updates, without having to build anything from scratch.

Use it to complement your existing INSET programme, as a short briefing in a staff meeting or as a standalone update session. If 

⚠️ Please note that this is not full annual safeguarding refresher training. It covers the Part One updates to KCSIE 2026 only – not the complete refresher content all staff need annually. If you're looking for a complete INSET-ready training pack, see the KCSIE 2026 Annual Safeguarding Refresher Training Pack.

Evaluate and enhance the impact of your 2026 KCSIE refresher safeguarding training with this comprehensive post-training reflection and action log. Perfect for DSLs and safeguarding leads looking to measure safeguarding training impact and plan effective follow-up actions.

What you'll get:

• KCSIE training reflection template to assess staff response and understanding
  
• Impact log for tracking changes 2-6 weeks after your safeguarding INSET delivery
• Follow-up checklist for ongoing safeguarding CPD development
• Fully editable Word format – adapt to your school's needs
• Completely free resource 🥳

Transform your annual Keeping Children Safe in Education refresher from a tick-box exercise into meaningful professional development. This structured safeguarding training evaluation tool helps you identify what's working, spot knowledge gaps amongst staff, and plan targeted follow-up actions to strengthen your safeguarding culture throughout the year.

Rather than delivering safeguarding training once and hoping it sticks, this resource supports you in taking a more strategic approach to safeguarding CPD, ensuring your child protection training has lasting impact on staff knowledge and confidence.

👉Looking for more safeguarding support? We've got a wealth of resources, from training bundles on individual safeguarding issues and safeguarding scenarios, to full packs covering all your safeguarding CPD needs for the Autumn, Spring and Summer term, as well as KCSIE updates and Prevent Duty training, plus support for DSLs and safeguarding governors.

🔒 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.

Train staff to respond appropriately to disclosures and understand their safeguarding responsibilities with these editable scenarios. Designed for designated safeguarding leads (DSLs), deputy DSLs and anyone leading safeguarding CPD, they help staff feel prepared and supported in responding to concerns.

☑️ Editable Word scenarios with full DSL commentary for guided discussion
☑️ Ideal for safeguarding staff training, INSET sessions or small-group CPD
☑️ Variants include scenarios for primary, secondary and those suitable for any age

This set explores key moments in safeguarding practice, including how to handle pre-holiday disclosures, respond to concerns about physical abuse, and manage disclosures involving parental substance misuse. Each scenario can be used flexibly in staff meetings or training to reinforce professional responsibilities and build staff confidence.

⬇️ Choose your scenarios below.

Need to update colleagues and yourself on the changes made to the Prevent duty on 31st December 2023? This PowerPoint and checklist bundle does the job - and best of all, it's free! 

For a full training package on the Prevent duty, the following resource can help: Prevent Duty Awareness Training and Audit Bundle