Free School Leadership Resources

Need to discuss the key KCSIE 2025 updates with staff? This free download makes it quick and simple.

Designed for DSLs, safeguarding leads and school leaders, this ready-made KCSIE 2025 PowerPoint and printable handout summarises the statutory changes and key messages from this year’s guidance.

Use it to complement your existing INSET safeguarding training or as a short briefing tool with staff and governors.

This safeguarding training calendar is designed to help you plot safeguarding training topics across the school year to allow a drip-feed approach, rather than relying on only delivering safeguarding CPD in one session during September INSET. Designed from the latest Keeping Children Safe in Education, the training calendar offers suggestions of what you could cover in each term, including abuse, neglect, exploitation, child-on-child abuse, extremism and radicalisation, harmful practices, staff safeguarding duties and more.

While the safeguarding training topics are organised into terms, you can - and should - use calendar flexibly based on the unique needs of your pupils and setting by ticking off when you've covered a certain theme. Should you wish to take a particular safeguarding issue further, helpful resources are linked into the calendar to deepen your safeguarding training offer for your staff. And best of all? This resource is free!

👉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.

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.

🔔 This training presentation pack has now been superseded by the 2025 version

👉 View the updated KCSIE 2025 Annual Safeguarding Refresher TrainingKCSIE 2025 Annual Safeguarding Refresher Training Pack here. There's also a freebie version available here!

Do you have tried and trusted safeguarding INSET training but need to quickly deliver this year's 2024 KCSIE updates to staff? Look no further - this free PowerPoint and handout does exactly that! Based on the 2024 KCSIE, it's a brilliant time-saver for anyone delivering safeguarding training and updates.

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