Mandatory safeguarding training
Failures in ensuring all staff complete mandatory training, particularly safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.
9 items
1 source
4 inquiries
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Where this theme appears
Mandatory safeguarding training has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
9 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (9)
4 — Safeguarding and contracts of employment
Recommendation: i. All Trusts must provide safeguarding training to all staff (appropriate to their role and expertise) and Board members, including Non-Executive Directors. This training should include how to deal with concerns and suspicions about deliberate harm caused by staff. ii. …
Words of: Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, oral statement to the House of Commons, 15 September 2026 (text as published on GOV.UK)
Gov response: On the crucial issue of safeguarding, just as Lady Justice Thirlwall recommends, compulsory training, a new protocol, employment requirements. Madam Deputy Speaker, a revised NHS safeguarding framework was published in April 2026, but I have …
Response Unclear
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 …
No response yet
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 …
No response yet
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 …
Words of: London Borough of Lambeth, Lambeth Council IICSA Action Plan, approved by Full Council, 15 December 2021
Gov response: 2.5 Ensure that all newly-elected councillors complete mandatory corporate parenting, safeguarding and Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) training as part of their induction and have refresher training each year for the duration of their term …
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 …
No response yet
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.
Unknown
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.
Words of: Home Office, Bichard Inquiry Recommendations: Progress Report, 22 December 2004
Gov response: A steering group has been set up to oversee the development and delivery of training in response to the requirements of Recommendations 16 and 17. The steering group includes DfES and NCSL officials, representatives of …
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.
Words of: Home Office, Bichard Inquiry Recommendations: Progress Report, 22 December 2004
Gov response: A steering group has been set up to oversee the development and delivery of training in response to the requirements of Recommendations 16 and 17. The steering group includes DfES and NCSL officials, representatives of …
Accepted