Safeguarding Resources

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.

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.

Save time and engage staff with these editable safeguarding quick quizzes. Designed for primary and secondary settings, they’re ideal for use in staff training, INSET days or CPD sessions. Each quiz includes 10 carefully written multiple-choice questions that go beyond the basics, helping you check that staff truly understand safeguarding procedures. Adapt them for your school’s internal platform, or pick out individual questions for meetings and briefings to keep safeguarding knowledge fresh all year round.

Looking for ways to make staff safeguarding training more consistent and engaging? Our Safeguarding Snapshots are the perfect solution. Designed in line with KCSIE 2025 guidance, these one-page safeguarding resources give staff a clear and accessible overview of specific safeguarding issues.

Use them as eye-catching posters in staff rooms or share them in your safeguarding e-bulletins to keep safeguarding knowledge fresh and relevant throughout the year. By making safeguarding training more regular and visible, you’ll strengthen staff awareness and create a safer environment for children and young people.

If you're needing to update your safeguarding and child protection policy but want to ensure that it covers all of the necessary criteria, this checklist will support you. Included in this download is a seven-page editable checklist that covers key areas of safeguarding policy and practice, including roles, responsibilities and training, reporting systems and procedures, safer recruitment, allegations against staff, child-on-child abuse, vulnerable pupils, online safety and filtering and monitoring.

For each of these sections, the checklist talks you through what your policy should contain as well as helpful guidance notes to prompt your thinking about what else to include. There is also a section for drafting, reviewing and amending your safeguarding policy so if you do ever need to make changes, you can be sure you're following the correct processes.

Fully in-line with guidance from the 2024 KCSIE, this checklist is ideal for DSLs, headteachers, trust leaders or anyone with responsibility for safeguarding in a school or college setting. 

Train staff on understanding misogyny in schools by spotting the signs and indicators of misogynist mindsets and incel culture with this flexible safeguarding training pack. With a ready-made presentation to deliver to staff on incels and misogyny, an accompanying safeguarding scenario on incel culture, quiz questions, a discussion prompt and a one-minute guide to send and display, this whole pack works seamlessly to train staff in safeguarding and keeping children safe.

The safeguarding scenario in this training bundle is also available to be purchased separately here: Safeguarding Scenario - Incel Culture