Course update: Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2024

Posted 2 weeks ago

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve just updated our free KCSIE Training course to reflect the new 2024 guidance!

Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) is a piece of statutory guidance issued by the Department of Education that sets out the legal duties you must follow to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 in schools and colleges.

This guidance applies to:

Headteachers
Teachers
Other school staff
Governing bodies
Proprietors
Management committees

Key changes to KCSIE in 2024

This year, there have been several changes to the KCSIE document that education staff need to be aware of. Here they are at a glance…

Definition of ‘safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children’ updated per ‘Working together to safeguard children 2023’
‘Early help’ updated per revised ‘Working Together’ guidance
‘Abuse and Neglect’ heading now includes ‘exploitation’
‘Indicators of Abuse and Neglect’ now includes text on the effects of domestic violence
‘Safeguarding Issues’ updated to reflect revised definition of ‘unexplainable and/or persistent absences from education’
‘Children and the court system’ now includes two age-appropriate guides for supporting children
‘Preventing radicalisation’ updated with a disclaimer and clarified duties related to Prevent

Our KCSIE 2024 course provides schools and colleges with a simple and effective way to distribute the guidance. The course also allows for easy reporting, helping you keep tabs on who has and who hasn’t read the guidance.

Here at iHasco, we offer free access to our KCSIE course to any business within the education sector that purchases a different course from our library.

Interested in our free KCSIE course? Purchase any of our courses today and we’ll add our KCSIE course in for free!