In April 2014, the Department for Education published Keeping Children Safe in Education, for schools and colleges. It was the new statutory guidance on safeguarding for schools and colleges, in England. It replaced 2006 guidance and was read in conjunction with the Working Together to Safeguard Children statutory guidance, which covers inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Working Together was revised in 2015 and 2018. Keeping Children Safe in Education has also been regularly updated, most recently in 2021, and in January, the DfE published new draft guidance which includes further proposed revisions. Over time, we have gone from child protection officers in schools reporting concerns to social care teams to designated safeguarding leads (DSLs) having a more proactive approach in child protection and safeguarding across schools and colleges.
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