In the beginning this was largely determined by the conditions I was able to create in my lessons, while also being alert to any obvious signs of abuse or neglect presented by the children and young people I taught. But as my career developed, so did my understanding of the range of factors that influence how effectively education settings achieve their safeguarding responsibilities. Keeping informed and responding appropriately to these changing factors can feel overwhelming and for many education settings, this intensified following the Ofsted and Estyn reviews, published in 2021.
The Everyone's Invited platform generated an overwhelming number of testimonials, in which a tenth of England’s schools and colleges were named. If you have visited this platform, you may be struck, as I was, by the breadth of experiences shared by children and young people, with school-based incidents from the age of just four years taking place across all educational settings.
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