Mandatory safeguarding training
Failures in ensuring all staff complete mandatory training, particularly safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.
8 items
1 source
3 inquiries
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Mandatory safeguarding training has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
8 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (8)
61 — Nationally accredited safeguarding training in schools
Recommendation: The Department for Education and the Welsh Government should: set nationally accredited standards and levels of safeguarding training in schools; make the highest level of safeguarding training mandatory for headteachers, designated safeguarding leads in England or designated safeguarding persons in …
Gov response: On 30 June 2022, the UK government stated that it will consider setting nationally accredited standards and levels of safeguarding training in schools further. It also stated that Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance was …
Accepted in Part
No update 2+ yrs
55 — Religious organisation child protection policies
Recommendation: All religious organisations should have a child protection policy and supporting procedures, which should include advice and guidance on responding to disclosures of abuse and the needs of victims and survivors. The policy and procedures should be updated regularly, with …
Gov response: Between January and March 2022, Methodist Church, Triratna Buddhist Order and Community and United Reformed Church stated that they had updated their safeguarding policies and practices, and The Baptist Union for Great Britain stated that …
Accepted
53 — Lambeth councillor safeguarding training
Recommendation: All Lambeth Council elected members should receive training on: (i) safeguarding and (ii) corporate parenting. Newly elected members should receive training on these matters as soon as possible following their election. Training should be mandatory and repeated on a regular …
Gov response: On 27 July 2021, Lambeth Council stated that all councillors are required to complete safeguarding training as well as training on corporate parenting. Councillors were provided with a handbook explaining the role of corporate parenting …
Accepted
48 — Mandatory Catholic safeguarding training
Recommendation: The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales should ensure that safeguarding training is mandatory for all staff and volunteers in roles where they work with children or victims and survivors of abuse. It should also be a requirement that …
Gov response: On 30 April 2021, the Catholic Council for the Inquiry stated that it had mandated that clergy and parish safeguarding representatives must undergo baseline safeguarding training, supplemented by biennial refresher training. The reach of mandatory …
Accepted
WATE-(14) — Remind professionals of their role in identifying and reporting child abuse
Recommendation: Steps should be taken through training and professional and other channels periodically to remind persons outside social services departments who are or may be in regular contact with looked after children, such as teachers, medical practitioners, nurses and police officers, …
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WATE-(13) — Arrange sexual abuse awareness training for social services and other staff
Recommendation: Area Child Protection Committees should arrange training in sexual abuse awareness for social services staff and for those from other departments, agencies and organisations in their area.
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R17 — Trained panel member requirement
Recommendation: From a date to be agreed, no interview panel to appoint staff working in schools should be convened without at least one member being properly trained.
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a statement to Parliament on 22 June 2004, the day the Bichard Inquiry Report was published, accepting all 31 recommendations in full. The government stated it was "in principle, accepting Sir …
Accepted
R16 — Interview training for headteachers
Recommendation: Head teachers and school governors should receive training on how to ensure that interviews to appoint staff reflect the importance of safeguarding children.
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a statement to Parliament on 22 June 2004, the day the Bichard Inquiry Report was published, accepting all 31 recommendations in full. The government stated it was "in principle, accepting Sir …
Accepted