KCSIE 2025 Annual Safeguarding Refresher Training

☑️ Full training PowerPoint

• 75 editable slides aligned with KCSIE 2025 (Part one and Annex B) and Working Together to Safeguard Children
• Fully interactive - built-in discussion points, mini scenarios, interactive questions, recap prompts and a quiz
• Delivery support for the DSL - full commentary, extra information and optional talking points for every slide and facilitator notes to plan a successful safeguarding training session

☑️ Safeguarding risks and responsibilities covered:

• Key principles - it's everyone's responsibility and 'it could happen here'
• Definitions of safeguarding from KCSIE and WTtSC
• The four types of child abuse: physical, emotional, sexual and neglect
• Domestic abuse
• Online safety
• Child exploitation (CCE, CSE, County lines and serious violence)
• Child-on-child abuse
• Extremism and radicalisation (Prevent Duty)
• Harmful practices (FGM, forced marriage, HBA)
• Children missing education
• Early Help
• Taking disclosures and asking non-leading questions
• Making an effective safeguarding concern report
• Low-level concerns, the harm threshold and whistleblowing

☑️ Printable extras:

• Key safeguarding updates handout for staff
• 20-question multiple choice safeguarding quiz
• Mini safeguarding scenarios
• DSL training log template
• Post-training checklist for DSLs
• Certificate of completion

Designated safeguarding leads (DSLs), deputy safeguarding leads, safeguarding trainers or anyone else with responsibility for safeguarding training, such as a CPD co-ordinator or induction co-ordinator, will find this safeguarding refresher training pack invaluable.

Headteachers and senior leaders can also use this pack to support their DSL and safeguarding team to deliver robust safeguarding training to all staff and volunteers at the start of the academic year or upon induction to your setting.

• Why can safeguarding training be challenging?
• What statutory safeguarding documents do I need to be aware of?
• What is safeguarding?
• How can adults safeguard children and young people?
• What is child abuse and what do adults in schools need to know about child abuse?
• What are the common signs and indicators of child abuse?
• What is neglect, physical, emotional and sexual abuse?
• What is domestic abuse?
• How is online safety linked to safeguarding?
• What is child exploitation and what are the signs of child exploitation?
• What is child-on-child abuse and what should schools do to prevent child-on-child abuse?
• What is child-on-child sexual abuse?
• What are extremism, radicalisation and terrorism?
• What are harmful practices and what are the signs of harmful practices?
• What happens when children aren’t attending school?
• How can learning from child safeguarding practice reviews help us today?
• Do pupils always disclose abuse if it’s occurring?
• When children disclose abuse, how do they tell someone?
• What should staff do when taking a disclosure?
• How can staff ask effective non-leading questions?
• Why is reporting safeguarding important and how do we report safeguarding concerns?
• What happens after I report a safeguarding concern?
• What if I have a concern and the DSL is not available?
• What if my concern is about a staff member?

If you're looking to go further than refresher training, these additional resources can help:

• Full Safeguarding Training Pack – 2025-2026: Includes Prevent Duty training, termly safeguarding packs, scenarios, snapshots and more. Everything you need for a full year of CPD.
• Safeguarding Training Bundles: Targeted follow-up training packs focused on specific safeguarding issues, ideal for termly CPD or addressing gaps in staff knowledge.
• Safeguarding Audit Pack – 2025: Evaluate and strengthen your school’s safeguarding approach with this toolkit aligned to KCSIE and the latest inspection framework.

Have a look at what's in the pack here: KCSIE 2025 Training Pack Preview