Safeguarding | Schools Week Education News, Policy & School Leadership Insight Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:57:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SW-dot-logo-54x54.png Safeguarding | Schools Week 32 32 KCSIE 2026: Everything schools need to know /kcsie-2026-everything-schools-need-to-know/ /kcsie-2026-everything-schools-need-to-know/#respond Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:11:30 +0000 /?p=241650

Proposed guidance strengthens expectations around serious violence and mobile phone use in schools

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Dozens of LAs hold no data on at-home kids potentially at risk, suggesting councils ill-prepared for new duties

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New version of safeguarding guidance will only feature 'technical changes', despite previous promises of 'substantive' updates

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