Safeguarding Training Pack - Autumn Term

This pack gives you a full term of safeguarding training materials, ready to use or adapt for your setting. Both the primary and secondary versions include:

✔️ Editable training timetable

A suggested week-by-week outline to help DSLs, CPD leads and safeguarding trainers plan effective ongoing training across the autumn term.

✔️ 12 safeguarding training scenarios (primary and secondary tailored versions)

Each scenario includes detailed DSL commentary to guide discussion, highlight key risks and build staff confidence in handling concerns.

Scenarios cover:

• Taking a disclosure (parent substance misuse)
• Physical abuse (siblings)
• Emotional abuse (emotional burden and parentification)
• Community safety incidents
• Sexual abuse (indirect disclosures)
• Neglect (insecure housing)
• Domestic abuse (witnessing domestic abuse)
• Staff concerns: over-familiarity
• Cyberbullying
• Bullying (verbal)
• Child-on-child abuse (sexual harassment)
• Child-on-child abuse (gender-based beliefs)

✔️ Safeguarding snapshots (one minute guides and eBulletins)

Twelve one-page PDFs covering key safeguarding topics. Perfect for emailing out, displaying in staff areas or sharing in weekly briefings to strengthen staff knowledge and vigilance.

Snapshots include:

• Physical abuse
• Emotional abuse
• Sexual abuse
• Neglect
• Child mental health
• Domestic abuse
• Child-on-child abuse
• Child-on-child abuse (sexual harassment)
• Bullying
• Cyberbullying
• Contextual safeguarding
• Homelessness
  

✔️ Six safeguarding quick quizzes

Editable Word quizzes with 10 challenging multiple choice questions each to test staff knowledge beyond simply reading KCSIE. Ideal for staff meetings or online platforms.

Quizzes cover:

• KCSIE and principles of safeguarding
• Roles and recognising abuse
• Types of abuse and neglect
• Child-on-child abuse and bullying
• Responding to mental health and staff conduct concerns
• Safeguarding outside of school
  

✔️ DSL training guidance

An eight-page PDF with practical ideas on how to run safeguarding training sessions, use the resources effectively, and adapt materials to suit your staff and school context.

This autumn term safeguarding pack is designed for anyone leading or delivering safeguarding training in schools, including:

• Designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) and deputy DSLs
• Child protection leaders and safeguarding trainers
• CPD leads and staff responsible for ongoing training
• Headteachers, deputy heads and assistant heads
• Senior leadership teams (SLT) overseeing safeguarding provision

Whether you’re planning weekly briefings, termly CPD sessions or regular safeguarding discussions, this pack gives you structured, practical materials to build staff knowledge and confidence across the autumn term.

Paragraph 12 of Keeping Children Safe in Education states: 

“In addition [to receiving safeguarding training at induction], all staff should receive safeguarding and child protection (including online safety) updates (for example, via email, e-bulletins, and staff meetings), as required, and at least annually, to continue to provide them with relevant skills and knowledge to safeguard children effectively.”

This is why we’ve designed such a comprehensive training pack. Rather than delivering a single large training session to staff where a long period of time can pass before safeguarding training is addressed again, this pack allows safeguarding leads to provide short, sharp bursts of incremental training that keeps staff knowledge fresh and puts safeguarding aspects at the forefront. 

For monitoring and quality assurance purposes, offering a drip-feed approach to safeguarding training is a great way to show that you’re constantly preparing staff to act if a safeguarding issue does arise, ensuring pupils are kept safe from harm.

The pack will support you with real questions safeguarding leads face each term, such as:

• How can we deliver safeguarding training throughout the autumn term without extra workload?
• What safeguarding scenarios can I use to train primary or secondary staff effectively?
• How do I run safeguarding training sessions that go beyond policy reminders?
• What’s the best way to test staff knowledge of KCSIE and safeguarding principles?
• How can I build staff confidence in recognising different types of abuse?
• What one-minute guides or eBulletins can I share to reinforce safeguarding topics?
• How do I keep safeguarding on the agenda every week, not just during INSET?
• Where can I find safeguarding quizzes to use in staff meetings?
• How can we discuss sensitive safeguarding issues with staff safely and confidently?
• What resources can help deputy DSLs and CPD leads deliver high-quality safeguarding training?

Thinking about auditing other areas of your safeguarding provision or further ways to train staff? These can help:

• Safeguarding Audit
• Prevent Duty Awareness Training and Audit Bundle
• Safeguarding and Child Protection Deep Dive Bundle

Have a look at what's in the pack here:

• Primary Safeguarding Training Pack - Autumn Term
• Secondary Safeguarding Training Pack - Autumn Term