The Education Safeguarding Team helps protect and safeguard children and young people by training and supporting staff and governors in schools, colleges and alternative provision.
We provide services to all forms of educational establishments across Cambridgeshire and beyond so that they can fulfil their responsibilities under current legislation and government guidance on safeguarding.
We raise awareness of safeguarding issues enabling all staff to keep up to date with current legislation and guidance.
We are located within the Children, Education and Families Directorate and play a key role in representing educational establishments at a range of multi-agency meetings and forums in order to promote inter-agency work.
As a service we work closely with all Children’s Services across Cambridgeshire to support all aspects of safeguarding children and young people.
Through our work we strive to promote consistent best practice and responses to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Services we offer:
Training
Keeping Children Safe in Education requires schools to keep their staff regularly updated on child protection and safeguarding issues. We offer in house training to all schools, colleges and alternative providers and can also provide training materials for schools and colleges to train their own staff.
We deliver the training for Designated Safeguarding Leads and Deputy Leads in all schools, colleges and alternative providers, throughout Cambridgeshire and beyond. In addition, we provide all safeguarding training for governors.
Each year we publish a training programme offering courses on a range of topics relevant to safeguarding. This can be requested by emailing ECPS.Coursebookings@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Support and guidance
We provide support and guidance on safeguarding and child protection issues.
We produce guidance on a range of topics and also procedures and model policies which can be adopted by schools, academies, educational settings, alternative providers and Local Authority services. These can be found on the Education Safeguarding Team group on the Knowledge Hub, which is available to Designated Safeguarding Leads and Deputy Lead of all local authority maintained schools and academies, independent schools and alternative providers who subscribe to our annual safeguarding subscription package.
As more schools and colleges adopt electronic safeguarding platforms, and specifically MyConcern, we offer a range of services to identify compliance, progress, developmental actions and help embed good practice.
For information about this and the Knowledge Hub, please email ECPS.General@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Monitoring
We play an important role in monitoring the performance of schools around safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. As the responsibility of schools increases in this area, ensuring they meet their statutory obligations is essential.
We ask schools to complete a child protection monitoring report for governors and to review their safeguarding and child protection policy annually.
If you would like to receive this year's Education Safeguarding Team Training Programme, please email tracey.carter@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
Contact details
Education Safeguarding Team
Cambridgeshire County Council
Team Box Number PAP1207
Sunley House
Summers Hill Drive
Papworth Everard
Cambridge
CB23 3AB
