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Safeguarding in Further Education. Lawrence Fry FE Workforce & Leadership Team Department for Business, Innovation and Skills lawrence.fry@bis.gsi.gov.uk 0114 – 259 1159. Policy Objective
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Safeguarding in Further Education Lawrence Fry FE Workforce & Leadership Team Department for Business, Innovation and Skills lawrence.fry@bis.gsi.gov.uk 0114 – 259 1159
Policy Objective • To ensure that unsuitable people are prevented from having access to young and vulnerable people via the further education workforce
PSADelivery Agreement 13: Improve children and young people’s safety • Staying Safe action plan • Four measures: bullying, social care, admissions following accident, child deaths • Delivery: • Universal safeguarding • Targeted safeguarding • Responsive safeguarding
Key Strands • ISA Vetting and Barring Scheme - DCSF/HO/DH + OGDs • Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment training - LSIS • Safeguarding guidance
Guidance • ISA generic guidance, eg referrals • Sector-specific guidance: Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education (DCSF) • Schools, FE colleges, local authorities • FE non-college provision
Other Guidance • Safe from Bullying in Further Education www.teachernet.gov.uk/publications • Safeguarding student volunteering in the Further Education sector www.volunteering.org.uk/fesafeguarding • Multi-agency practice guidelines; Handling cases of Forced Marriage www.fco.gov.uk/en/global-issues/human-rights/forced-marriage-unit/
Work in Progress • Safeguarding FE and Skills Learners in a Digital Age - BECTA • Tackling Bullying - DCSF/Anti-Bullying Alliance • Safer practice, safer learning - NIACE