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Safeguarding Audit Pack (2025)
Safeguarding Audit Pack (2025)
🔒 Fully aligned to the final Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025
New for 2025, this comprehensive safeguarding audit pack provides DSLs, child protection leads and SLT with everything needed to review safeguarding culture, systems and compliance across the eight key areas that matter most to inspectors.
☑️ Complete 46-page safeguarding audit document covering strategic leadership, operational management, staff training, safer recruitment, child-on-child violence, site safety and continuous improvement, with structured questions and evidence prompts to evaluate current provision and identify next steps
☑️ 18-page step-by-step audit guidance explaining how to conduct effective safeguarding audits, triangulate evidence, and avoid common pitfalls when reviewing school provision
☑️ Ready-to-use templates and tools including action plan template, safeguarding evidence checklist, stakeholder question bank for staff, pupils, parents and governors, plus one-page summary template for SLT and governing body reporting
Ideal for DSLs, deputy DSLs, headteachers and safeguarding leaders reviewing statutory compliance, preparing for inspection or strengthening safeguarding practice.
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What’s in this Safeguarding Audit Pack?
This audit pack gives you a full set of editable tools to help you evaluate and improve safeguarding culture, practice and compliance in your school. Every document is designed to support strategic self-evaluation, save time and help you plan next steps with clarity.
You'll get:
☑️ A 46-page editable Safeguarding Audit document
This comprehensive safeguarding audit tool includes structured reflection questions and prompts across seven key areas of safeguarding. It helps you evaluate strengths, identify risks and consider a wide range of evidence to support improvement. The seven areas are:
- Safeguarding Strategic Leadership and Culture
- Safeguarding Operational Management
- Safeguarding Knowledge, Training and Information for Staff
- Safer Recruitment and the Single Central Record
- Child-on-Child Violence
- Site Safety, Supervision and Online Protection
- Evaluating Impact and Continuous Improvement
Work through it at your own pace with colleagues and stakeholders to build a clear, evidence-based view of your school's safeguarding provision and compliance.
☑️ Action plan template
A simple, editable Word document to help you capture priorities and set clear, strategic next steps to strengthen safeguarding practice and ensure statutory compliance.
☑️ Safeguarding document checklist
Helps you identify and gather the key safeguarding documents to support your school’s self-evaluation and inspection readiness.
☑️ Safeguarding question bank
Editable questions to support safeguarding-focused pupil voice, staff feedback, parent/carer engagement and governor scrutiny – ideal for triangulating evidence on culture, practice and impact.
☑️ One-page summary template
A flexible Word template for sharing key findings on safeguarding with SLT, governors or trust leaders.
☑️ 18-page PDF guidance: Auditing your School's Provision in Safeguarding
A practical printable guide to help you audit effectively, with tips on planning, reviewing and involving others in the process. It also contains information about how Ofsted evaluates safeguarding under their latest framework.
Every document is provided in an editable Word format, except for the PDF guide.
Who should use this safeguarding audit?
This audit pack is designed for headteachers, deputy heads, DSLs and deputy DSLs who need to systematically evaluate their school's safeguarding provision under the updated Ofsted framework.
It's particularly valuable for leaders who are preparing for Ofsted inspection, conducting annual safeguarding reviews, or strengthening safeguarding compliance and culture. School business managers, trust executives and safeguarding governors will also find this pack essential for supporting strategic oversight, ensuring statutory duties are met and evidencing continuous improvement in safeguarding practice.
How can this pack help school leaders tackle safeguarding challenges?
This comprehensive audit pack helps you tackle the most common challenges leaders face when evaluating and improving safeguarding provision across all key areas. Whether you're conducting a formal review in preparation for inspection, planning development priorities or strengthening your self-evaluation, this pack provides the structured support you need.
"How can I systematically review our safeguarding culture and leadership?" The strategic leadership section guides you through evaluating how well safeguarding is embedded in your school's ethos, decision-making and daily practice, with prompts to assess staff confidence, pupil voice and governance oversight.
"What should I be looking for when auditing staff safeguarding knowledge and training?" Detailed questions help you evaluate training effectiveness, staff understanding of procedures, and confidence in recognising and responding to concerns, with clear criteria for assessing competence and identifying development needs.
"How do I know if our safer recruitment processes are fully compliant?" The safer recruitment section provides comprehensive checks for pre-employment procedures, single central record accuracy, risk assessment management and alternative provision oversight - helping you identify any compliance gaps.
"What evidence demonstrates effective child-on-child violence prevention and response?" Specific audit areas focus on your school's approach to sexual harassment, physical violence, bullying and relationship abuse, with prompts to evaluate prevention strategies, staff awareness and incident management.
"How can I review our site safety and online protection measures?" The site safety section addresses supervision arrangements, emergency procedures, visitor management and online filtering, helping you assess whether physical and digital safeguarding controls are effective.
"What's the best way to evaluate our multi-agency working and external partnerships?" Questions focus on DSL effectiveness, information sharing, referral processes and partnership evaluation to help you assess how well your school works with other agencies to protect pupils.
"How do I measure the impact of our safeguarding provision on pupil outcomes?" The continuous improvement section provides frameworks for evaluating safeguarding effectiveness, gathering stakeholder feedback and using evidence to drive improvement planning.
"How can I present audit findings effectively to governors and senior leaders?" The summary template helps you communicate key strengths, risks and recommended actions clearly, supporting strategic decision-making and governance accountability.
Want to build on your work on safeguarding best practice?
If you’re reviewing safeguarding culture, compliance and practice, these related resources can help you strengthen staff knowledge, deliver effective training and explore safeguarding concerns in depth.
Safeguarding Training Pack – Full Academic Year
A comprehensive training pack with ready-to-use safeguarding scenarios, quizzes and activities to support whole-school safeguarding CPD throughout the year.
KCSIE Annual Safeguarding Refresher Training
Editable PowerPoint and handouts to deliver this year’s KCSIE updates clearly and confidently, keeping staff informed of statutory safeguarding changes.
Select a safeguarding topic or theme and training staff with scenarios, one-minute guides and safeguarding quizzes.
Want to preview the Safeguarding Audit Pack?
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This pack gave me a lot to think about, particularly some of the areas that we don't look at very often. The doc checklist was very handy too - lots of places I wouldn't have though of where we could find evidence of our work. Thanks
We're glad it was thought-provoking, Victoria, and hope it helped you!
TBH, I was disappointed, very little here that one couldn't pull together in an afternoon.
Thank you for taking the time to give your feedback, John. We really appreciate it.
We're proud of the depth and value we offer school leaders through this audit pack. The audit document itself contains over 125 reflective questions with additional ideas for possible evidence sources to save DSLs time. These questions cover the full spectrum of safeguarding compliance and practice that schools need to be attend to, plus the additional resources support the evidence-gathering and follow-up processes. If you feel you can create this comprehensive resource in an afternoon, we absolutely salute your speed and applaud the time you've saved yourself!
We developed this pack to help busy schools who prefer ready-to-use, professionally structured resources rather than creating everything from scratch. Many schools find significant value - in terms of both time and budget saved - in having a complete audit framework, allowing them to focus their time on implementation rather than development.
We appreciate that experienced professionals in the sector may have different preferences, and we're glad our materials could serve as a reference point for your own work.