Safeguarding

Our Safeguarding offer provides schools, academies, and trusts with independent expertise, assurance, and practical support. Each service is tailored to your context, offering a clear balance of compliance and culture—ensuring safeguarding is not only robust on paper but also lived meaningfully in practice.

Serious Support

Sensible Advice

All your safeguarding needs 

Safeguarding is one of the most serious responsibilities in education—lives quite literally depend on it. The stakes are high, but safeguarding support does not need to be overwhelming or unnecessarily complex. Our approach is expert, practical, and grounded—always professional, but delivered with the clarity and humanity that makes the process manageable and effective.

Whether you require a full safeguarding audit, a comprehensive policy review, or support in addressing a complex case, we provide calm, measured, and experienced guidance. Our focus is on reducing risk, building confidence, and ensuring safeguarding is consistently strong across your setting.

What we can do

Reviews &

Oversight

Annual Safeguarding Audits & Reviews

A comprehensive evaluation of your safeguarding provision, examining how effectively practice aligns with statutory requirements and best practice. Our review covers policies, staff understanding, training provision, and safeguarding systems. We provide clear, evidence-based feedback with practical recommendations—designed to strengthen compliance, build confidence, and improve outcomes for children and young people.

Safeguarding Investigations

When safeguarding concerns become complex, we provide independent expertise and oversight. Whether addressing internal concerns, managing allegations, or requiring external investigation, we deliver a process that is thorough, discreet, and conducted with the highest levels of professionalism. Our focus is on establishing clarity, maintaining trust, and ensuring matters are handled with rigour and sensitivity.

Record-Keeping Deep Dives

Safeguarding records are critical, but systems can often become complex and difficult to manage. We provide an independent review of your safeguarding recording and reporting processes—identifying strengths, highlighting gaps, and offering practical solutions to streamline and strengthen practice. Our approach is constructive and supportive, focused on building confidence and ensuring records are both compliant and effective.

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Support for

Safeguarding Leads

Safeguarding Supervision

Headteachers, DSLs, and pastoral leaders carry significant responsibility in safeguarding. Our supervision sessions offer a confidential and structured space to reflect on complex cases, explore concerns, and strengthen professional resilience. Designed to provide both support and challenge, these sessions help leaders sustain their wellbeing while maintaining the highest standards of safeguarding practice.

Attendance at Safeguarding Meetings

Multi-agency meetings can be complex and demanding. We provide external professional support by attending alongside your team, helping you prepare, contribute effectively, and navigate processes with confidence. Our role is to bring clarity, ensure your school’s perspective is represented, and support constructive partnership working across agencies.

Policy &

Strategic Support

Policy Audits & Development

We provide a rigorous review of your safeguarding provision, assessing how well policies, systems, and practice align with statutory requirements and best practice. This includes meeting with key staff, evaluating training and awareness, and scrutinising safeguarding processes. Our feedback is precise, practical, and actionable—designed to strengthen compliance, enhance staff confidence, and ensure safeguarding is consistently effective.

Conference Chairing

When safeguarding issues require careful coordination, we provide independent chairing of conferences and meetings. Whether convening professionals around complex cases, leading multi-agency discussions, or facilitating sensitive decision-making, our approach is impartial, structured, and grounded in best practice. We ensure that meetings are well managed, every voice is heard, and outcomes are clear—building confidence, clarity, and accountability throughout the process.

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Frequently asked

questions

  • Absolutely. We work with primary, secondary, special, independent, alternative provision and MAT. Safeguarding applies everywhere, and we adapt to your context.

  • Ideally, annually. Safeguarding is not a “tick it and forget it” area. We’ll help you keep things fresh, current, and robust.

  • Absolutely. We can write, review, and refine policies to ensure they are compliant, practical, and reflective of your setting. Whether you need a complete suite of safeguarding documents, updates to meet statutory requirements, or policies tailored to specific contexts, we provide clear, robust, and user-friendly policies that withstand scrutiny and support everyday practice.

  • 100%. What happens in safeguarding supervision stays in safeguarding supervision (unless it raises a concern, in which case—we follow the rules).

Let’s Keep

Children Safe

Together

We approach safeguarding with the seriousness it deserves, while offering support that is clear, practical, and grounded in experience. Whether you are seeking independent assurance of strong practice or guidance through a complex situation, we provide the expertise and perspective to help.

Get in touch to discuss how we can strengthen your safeguarding arrangements with clarity, confidence, and assurance.

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