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 in this Attendance and Children Missing Education: Themed Safeguarding Set?

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 should use this attendance and CME safeguarding training set?

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 safeguarding training on attendance and CME help answer?

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?

Want to strengthen your safeguarding CPD across the year?

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.

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