KCSIE - Keeping Children Safe in Education

Contextual Safeguarding

Understanding the variety of risks students may encounter will help you prioritise their welfare. It'll also help you ensure these risks aren’t overlooked and support parents and caregivers in keeping students safe. This course will introduce you to contextual safeguarding and the types of extra-familial risks students may encounter. You’ll also learn about effective contextual supervision. This’ll help you to tailor your responses to specific risks and meet your safeguarding responsibilities.

Learning outcomes:

Recognise what contextual safeguarding is, so you can understand and respond to students’ experience of significant harm outside the home

Identify types of extra-familial risks, so you can safeguard students

Recognise the primary elements of effective contextual supervision, so you can meet the expectations laid out in KCSIE

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What you will learn

Who is this course for

What is contextual safeguarding in schools? This course explains contextual safeguarding, meaning you can protect the children in your care more effectively. You’ll learn about extra-familial risks and come away ready to use effective contextual supervision to address them.

If you’re a designated safeguarding lead, deputy designated safeguarding lead, or a member of the senior leadership team or board of governors, this course is for you.

Why choose iAM Compliant

Peace of mind with testing

This course also has an assessment at the end which allows learners to test their understanding and helps businesses demonstrate a level of competence in the topic.

Accessibility

Everyone has the right to learn and learner need can vary depending on environment or disabilities. To support this diversity, we provide transcripts so people have text options for media, alongside subtitles for all videos.