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Governor Training – Keeping Children Safe in Education
- Keeping Children Safe in Education (2023) outlines that governing bodies should ensure that all governors receive appropriate safeguarding and child and child protection training at induction.
This training should equip them with the knowledge to provide strategic challenge to test and assure themselves that the safeguarding policies and procedures in the school are effective and support the delivery of a robust whole school approach to safeguarding.
Their training should be regularly updated.
This course will aim to develop governors understanding of;
- what is meant by safeguarding, child protection and child abuse and the local context within our Borough and for our school.
- the vital role schools have in safeguarding children
- the statutory guidance on Governor responsibilities for leadership and management of safeguarding within schools
- the elements that contribute to a safeguarding culture.
- Facilitator
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Hayley Reynolds, Advanced Practitioner (Dsl), Rochdale Borough Council
I joined Rochdale Borough Council, straight out of University in 2000. I gained experience in a number of Social Care teams both in Adult Care initially and then in Children’s Social Care. I have spent a large amount of my career in the Youth Justice Service. I gained my BSc in Social Work whilst in the YJS in 2006. I have worked in a number of Children’s Social Care teams as a Social Worker, all in Rochdale, and for the past 6 ½ years I have been an IRO in the Safeguarding Children Unit, with a responsibility for monitoring and review of Child Protection and Cared 4 Children’s care planning.
I am currently seconded in to schools to support and supervise Designated Safeguarding Leads in a number of the borough’s High School’s, which is very closely linked to my keen interest in ensuring we are supporting children and their families to get the very best advice, guidance and support as and when they need it.