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Attendance and Children Missing Education: Themed Safeguarding Set
Attendance and Children Missing Education: Themed Safeguarding Set
When attendance issues or children missing education raise safeguarding concerns, DSLs need clear training resources to help staff recognise risks and respond appropriately. This set provides safeguarding training materials focused on CME, attendance and elective home education, helping staff understand how absence from education links to wider safeguarding responsibilities.
☑️ 2 safeguarding scenarios exploring CME and EHE concerns
☑️ 2 one‑minute guides to share in staff briefings or as e‑bulletins
☑️ 1 safeguarding quiz to check staff understanding of safeguarding beyond the family setting
Unlike a single‑session training bundle, this themed safeguarding set gives you a flexible mix of scenarios, quick reference guides and a realistic quiz you can use across multiple staff meetings or CPD sessions. It’s designed to help safeguarding leads deliver staff training on attendance and CME in both primary and secondary contexts.
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What's included in this bundle?
You get a complete set of editable and ready‑to‑use resources to help you deliver safeguarding training on attendance and CME, and strengthen staff understanding of their responsibilities when children are absent from school.
☑️ Safeguarding scenarios
These editable Word documents present realistic situations to explore with staff. Each is written to work in both primary and secondary settings, making them easy to adapt to your school:
- Children Absent from Education and Children Missing Education (CME) – recognising risks linked to absence and missing education
- Elective Home Education (EHE) – understanding safeguarding responsibilities when children are educated at home
☑️Safeguarding one‑minute guides (snapshots)
Quick-reference PDF guides to use in staff briefings or share as e‑bulletins. These reinforce the signs and safeguarding considerations for attendance and CME:
- Children Missing Education (CME)
- Elective Home Education (EHE)
☑️ Quick quiz
The Safeguarding Beyond the Family Setting quiz document is a 10‑question, editable multiple‑choice safeguarding quiz designed to check staff knowledge of risks linked to CME, EHE and wider contextual safeguarding. The questions are realistic, with no easy answers, helping staff think critically about how absence from education intersects with safeguarding responsibilities. Suitable for both primary and secondary staff teams.
The scenarios in this set are also available to purchase individually and as part of specific single‑issue safeguarding training bundles.
Who will find this resource useful?
This resource is designed for designated safeguarding leads, deputy DSLs, child protection leads and safeguarding coordinators who need practical materials to train staff on attendance, CME and EHE as safeguarding issues. It supports anyone with responsibility for safeguarding to build staff confidence in recognising risks linked to absence from education and acting appropriately when children are missing from school.
Headteachers, senior leaders and trust safeguarding leads can also use this set to plan and evidence whole-school safeguarding CPD. The combination of scenarios, one‑minute guides and a safeguarding quiz makes it easy to integrate into staff meetings, briefings or strategic training plans focused on attendance and CME.
What questions does this pack have the answers to?
- How confident are our staff in recognising when absence from school becomes a safeguarding concern?
- Do staff understand their responsibilities when children are missing education or educated at home
- Are we giving staff realistic scenarios to explore safeguarding risks linked to CME and EHE?
- How can we use short, focused CPD to keep awareness of attendance-related safeguarding high throughout the year?
- Do our training materials equip staff to respond consistently to CME and EHE concerns?
What else can help me?
If you’re ready to build on this theme and deliver safeguarding training more widely, these resources can help you create a structured CPD plan.
Safeguarding Training Pack – Full Academic Year
A comprehensive training pack with scenarios, quizzes and one‑minute guides covering a wide range of safeguarding themes, plus KCSIE and Prevent Duty training sessions. Available in both primary and secondary versions to support whole‑school staff training throughout the year.
Termly Safeguarding Training Packs
If the full year feels like too much to start with, the autumn, spring and summer packs are a practical way to explore Honeyguide’s wider safeguarding offer. Each term includes a sequenced mix of scenarios, quizzes and guides for easy, timetabled delivery, with primary and secondary versions available.