Designated Safeguarding Lead Refresher Zoom Course

Designated Safeguarding Lead Online Refresher Training

This Zoom course is suitable to refresh your  DSL training every 2 years for you and your safeguarding team. 

This course is fully up to date with:

• Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2024, as published by the DfE on 1 September 2023
• Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023, as published by the DfE in December 2023 (updated Feb 2024)

Course length: 4 hours

Suitable for: DSLs and deputy DSLs, as refresher training

In 4 hours, this course recaps all the core aspects of the designated safeguarding lead (DSL) role, as defined in statutory guidance. You'll update your knowledge of the latest requirements and best practice in safeguarding children and draw on the experience of other DSLs and safeguarding experts to develop your practice.

Sessions:

Session 1: What's the course about / Statistics / What's New

Session 2: The Roles of the Designated Safeguarding Lead

Session 3: Working together to Safeguard Children

Session 4: Information Sharing

Session 5: Sextortion / Sharing of nudes & Semi Nudes

By the end of this course, you will:

• Understand best practice across all your key DSL duties, as set out in Keeping Children Safe in Education
• Be clear on the law and latest statutory guidance on safeguarding and child protection.
• Know how to recognise different types of abuse and respond to a concern or incident.
• Be confident in 'making the call' on whether to refer and how to make that decision.
• Know how and when to share data, confidentiality, information sharing and consent and how to use it proactively to safeguard children