Anyone who has worked with me will know my commitment to safer recruitment. As an absolute minimum, we should be carrying out interviews, a DBS check, and taking up two references for anyone that is going to work with children…
In this month’s blog, I want to address a question that I get asked a lot – what do accreditation and certification actually mean and how important are they? I will also address the subject of regulated qualifications. To start,…
I was very interested to see the wide reporting earlier in the month about the findings of UCL research into smacking of children. The study, Physical punishment and child outcomes in the UK, used information from a long-running study of…
Whenever there is a major change in the early years and education sector, it always takes a little while for things to truly bed-in. I spend a lot of my time working all over the country, and it’s always fascinating…
On 18th March, the Government published an updated version of its statutory safeguarding guidance, Working Together to Safeguard Children. It is important to understand the changes that this update brings in; during all the training I’ve been doing since the…
The UK Government has recently announced a consultation on stronger protections for children with allergies in schools. The proposals aim to reduce the risk of serious incidents and deaths caused by severe allergic reactions, also known as anaphylaxis. The protections…