Strategic Leadership Courses 2025/26

This course aims to strengthen the culture of safeguarding in your setting by considering different aspects of the strategic leadership of the area.

Session 1- Measuring the Temperature
This session will focus on quality assurance and stakeholder views and will include themes of:

• CPD
• Policies and procedures
• Curriculum
• Record keeping
• Purposeful pupil and parent voice

Session 2- Looking in the Mirror
This session is about the evaluating and developing the culture of safeguarding in your setting. Areas covered will include:

• Questions to ask around self-evaluation
• Linking evaluation to evidence
• Presenting the findings
• Understanding objectives, goals, aims, success criteria
• Planning, monitoring and evaluation

Session 3- Working Together
This will focus on the tactical leadership, management and governance of safeguarding and will include broad areas such as:

• Leading a wider team
• The governance of safeguarding
• Contextual safeguarding
• Using data effectively
• Compliance and policy review

Audience: Senior leaders and Designated Safeguarding Leads