Free School Leadership Resources

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.

Start meaningful conversations about AI use in schools without needing all the answers. This free editable download offers sample reflection questions across key areas of school life, plus prompts to help you think more widely about the ethical use of AI in education.

It’s designed for headteachers, SLT, trust leaders and any school leaders starting to explore how AI might support or impact their setting.

Use it to begin strategic thinking, shape SLT discussions or evaluate where AI fits into your wider school planning. You can also upgrade to the full toolkit if you're ready to go deeper.

🔒 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.

This budget planning checklist and calendar set is designed to help you with staying on top of managing your budget across the school year. The editable budget planning checklist has suggested tasks to attend to when planning your next budget, including for school improvement planning, curriculum budgeting and expenditure, staffing and payroll, pupil premium and SEND. There are also suggestions for when to follow up and monitor each element across the school year. The accompanying calendar provides a month-by-month overview, giving you a quick and easy breakdown of what to explore each month when it comes to monitoring your budget - you could print it out and pin it to your noticeboard as a handy reminder (plus there's a print-friendly version included too). And best of all? This pack is free!

👉Looking for more budget support? This template is also available in the full School Budget Management Pack, which can also help you to upskill yourself on financial management, identify where cost savings can be made and work with your finance governors. This pack offers you best value for money if you want to get a better grip on your budget, but each strand is also available as a separate purchase should you need to explore a single area of budget management: School Budget Planning and Cost Saving Toolkit, School Budget Management Skills Bundle and Budget Planning Questions for Governors.

A key responsibility for headteachers and principals in schools is to support the wellbeing of your staff team... but what about you and your own wellbeing? You don't need us to tell you that the pressures of school leadership can often feel overwhelming but our FREE Headteacher Wellbeing Audit and Action Plan is here to help. Designed with the unique challenges of headship in mind, this tool helps you take stock of what or who is currently supporting you in a professional capacity and where there could be room for development to improve your wellbeing in school. It's perfect for heads, executive heads, school principals or anyone leading a school to use as a self-reflection tool, as well as being useful for trust leaders, CEOs, governors, trustees or anyone line managing a headteacher to utilise as part of a full support package.

Are you stepping into your first EYFS leadership role? Congratulations! This comprehensive and FREE checklist for new early years leaders is here to provide you with different ideas for how to get started in your new post over the first few weeks, half term and term. Designed to be fully editable, adapt and amend it to tailor it to your new EYFS role. Let us support your thinking and workload so you can find balance as a new EYFS leader.

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.

Updated for 2026

Have you made a list and are you checking it twice? No? Well don't worry - getting ready for Christmas and the end of term in school doesn't have to be overwhelming. This FREE comprehensive checklist helps headteachers, deputies and SLTs organise everything from nativity performances to staff appreciation so nothing gets forgotten in the December rush.

🎄 Christmas Event Planning – nativity performances, carol services, Christmas dinner organisation and festive assembly scheduling

🎄 End of Term Essentials – staff wellbeing checks, term-end communications to parents and final assessment deadlines

🎄January Preparation – spring term planning, CPD scheduling and post-holiday transition planning

🎄 Leadership Tasks – delegation strategies, quality assurance and school evaluation priorities

Perfect for headteachers and senior leaders who want to finish the autumn term organised and start January ready.

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