Upcoming Courses

Statutory requirement for education professionals meeting ‘robust 2-yearly training’ for those with a lead or designated professional role for safeguarding in schools. Having completed basic safeguarding training, this course equips professionals to perform their senior safeguarding function in schools.

• Latest legislation and procedures – reflecting the Education Acts and ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023
• Policy development
• Awareness of multi-agency working
• Information sharing
• The referral processes
• Thresholds or risk analysis within the context of children and young people
• Management of safeguarding with staff and within schools – including the response to sexual violence and sexual harassment
• Challenging topics are also explored from a management level

I really enjoyed the format of the training in comparison to others I have attended. Lots of strategic ideas to take away and tangible actions to work through as a team. Thank you.

• What is the role of the EHT?
• What does effective Executive Headship look like from day to day?
• Avoiding the potholes, how to solve common dilemmas
• Establishing a first Executive Headship
• Moving from one to two schools
• Growing partnerships
• Moving from two to more schools
• How to enjoy it

Jayne Pavlou, Deputy Director of Education (Christian Distinctiveness) and Kathryn Kane, Secondary RE Adviser will be leading a workshop session to support school leaders and governors with the development of a theologically rooted Christian vision in line with the new SIAMS requirements.

This one-hour session will include some specific training around developing a theologically rooted vision, followed by dedicated time for leaders to work together reviewing or establishing their own school’s vision with support available from Jayne and Kathryn. Please bring your senior leaders or governor (max 3 delegates) to the workshop.

• Jayne Pavlou (Deputy Director of Education Christian Distinctiveness) is an experienced SIAMS inspector and a Quality Assurance Inspector for the national SIAMS team. She also leads on SIAMS for the LDBS.
• Kathryn Kane is a Secondary RE Advisor

This half day course consists of a morning spent in a successful primary school, offering first-hand experience of and insights into mixed-age classes, with a longer time dedicated to your questions:

• Falling school roll issues and associated budget deficits. What does the future look like?
• Taking stock of the situation and facing it head on. Three year pupil roll projections and the impact on school finances
• What can you do now? -staffing structures-combining classes-partnership
• What does a good mixed age curriculum look like?
• A pedagogical approach to mixed age groups
• Are exceptional outcomes for pupils possible in small schools?
• Partnerships and how they can help
• Ambitious, inspirational and strategic governance in small schools. What does it look like?

This briefing will explore:

• how high-quality collective worship can support the spiritual flourishing of both pupils and adults in school
• the role of governors and clergy in supporting Christian worship
• approaches to monitoring the impact of collective worship

There will be 15 minutes at the end of the session for questions and responses.

To book your place, please click here (opens to the LDBS website) >

• Jayne Pavlou is an experienced SIAMS inspector and a Quality Assurance Inspector for the national SIAMS team. She also leads on SIAMS for the LDBS.
• Tim Wright

An opportunity for leaders to visit a recently graded outstanding school and to hear from leaders about their work. This is not a ’how to get to outstanding’ session, rather a helpful chat with senior leaders.

The connecting and the conversations were very helpful. There was plenty of time for in-depth discussion and the opportunity to delve deeply into the context of our schools.

In partnership with Education Child Protection (ECP), we are delighted to provide accredited training through the Safer Recruitment Consortium, meeting the standard of training consistent with the Local Authority offer of Safer Recruitment Training.

By undertaking Safer Recruitment Consortium endorsed training this assures you that:

• The content is up to date, relevant and sector specific
• ECP now belongs to a national network of trained and accredited facilitators
• Your training will meet the standards required by the DfE in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024

Safer Recruitment workshop content:

• Safer recruitment and the wider context of safeguarding
• Prevalence of abuse and profile of abusers
• How abusers operate within organisations
• Features of a safer recruitment process
• Planning a safer recruitment process
• Making the right decisions: interview and selection
• Setting acceptable standards of behaviour
• Maintaining an ongoing culture of vigilance

If you’re a governor of a school or an academy and would like to attend this course, please get in touch by filling in our contact form, making sure to include the title: Governor’s enquiry about Safer Recruitment.

Fab training. The trainer was so knowledgable and confident in her delivery and I now have a much greater awareness of recruitment and safeguarding and how to create a culture that will deter unsuitable applicants.

This briefing will explore different ways of looking at and understanding spirituality within the life of a church school. We will consider how spiritual development can be an intrinsic part of the curriculum, and what part the school’s Christian vision has to offer in shaping this.

There will be 15 minutes at the end of the session for questions and responses.

To book your place, please click here (opens to the LDBS website) >

• Jayne Pavlou is an experienced SIAMS inspector and a Quality Assurance Inspector for the national SIAMS team. She also leads on SIAMS for the LDBS.
• Tim Wright

“Thank you so much for the ideas and clarification on many aspects. It was great to be able to share ideas.”

All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance. The training will ensure that:

• you have an understanding of your strategic role within the governing body in relation to safeguarding, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, and the Ofsted inspection framework
• the number of areas of your responsibilities with regard to ensuring compliance with the law
• multi-agency working, that staff, undergo relevant training, appropriate appointment of staff in relation to leading safeguarding arrangements
• robust policies and procedures being in place
• recognising the importance of information sharing
• developing awareness of high risk safeguarding areas such as peer on peer abuse and online safety
• considering whistleblowing safer recruitment and appropriate management of allegations against staff.

To register, please fill in the form on this page for each participant attending › Once we have received your registration, we will email you to confirm your place. Log-in details will be emailed once your course place has been confirmed.

As a safeguarding link governor, I found the training was very helpful and I particularly liked the action plan presented. Will be using that to help my school in their strategic planning.

In partnership with Education Child Protection (ECP), we are delighted to provide accredited training through the Safer Recruitment Consortium, meeting the standard of training consistent with the Local Authority offer of Safer Recruitment Training.

By undertaking Safer Recruitment Consortium endorsed training this assures you that:

• The content is up to date, relevant and sector specific
• ECP now belongs to a national network of trained and accredited facilitators
• Your training will meet the standards required by the DfE in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024

Safer Recruitment workshop content:

• Safer recruitment and the wider context of safeguarding
• Prevalence of abuse and profile of abusers
• How abusers operate within organisations
• Features of a safer recruitment process
• Planning a safer recruitment process
• Making the right decisions: interview and selection
• Setting acceptable standards of behaviour
• Maintaining an ongoing culture of vigilance

This live online course is spread out over 2 x half day sessions: 23 & 24 OApril 2025 @ 9.00am – 12.30pm.

If you’re a governor of a school or an academy and would like to attend this course, please get in touch by filling in our contact form, making sure to include the title: Governor’s Enquiry about Safer Recruitment.

Very good pace, yet always engaging with loads of content & information. Despite the challenging content, it was very well presented and easy to follow. I now feel more confident in what constitutes good practice when it comes to recruiting. Also going to make some changes to what we currently do to ensure our recruitment is robust.

In partnership with Education Child Protection (ECP), we are delighted to provide accredited training through the Safer Recruitment Consortium, meeting the standard of training consistent with the Local Authority offer of Safer Recruitment Training.

By undertaking Safer Recruitment Consortium endorsed training this assures you that:

• The content is up to date, relevant and sector specific
• ECP now belongs to a national network of trained and accredited facilitators
• Your training will meet the standards required by the DfE in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024

Safer Recruitment workshop content:

• Safer recruitment and the wider context of safeguarding
• Prevalence of abuse and profile of abusers
• How abusers operate within organisations
• Features of a safer recruitment process
• Planning a safer recruitment process
• Making the right decisions: interview and selection
• Setting acceptable standards of behaviour
• Maintaining an ongoing culture of vigilance

This live online course is spread out over 2 x half day sessions: 23 & 24 April 2025 @ 9.00am – 12.30pm. Please see Day 1 to book your place ›

If you’re a governor of a school or an academy and would like to attend this course,  please get in touch by filling in our contact form, making sure to include the title: Governor’s enquiry about Safer Recruitment.

Very good pace, yet always engaging with loads of content & information. Despite the challenging content, it was very well presented and easy to follow. I now feel more confident in what constitutes good practice when it comes to recruiting. Also going to make some changes to what we currently do to ensure our recruitment is robust.

All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance. The training will ensure that:

• you have an understanding of your strategic role within the governing body in relation to safeguarding, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, and the Ofsted inspection framework
• the number of areas of your responsibilities with regard to ensuring compliance with the law
• multi-agency working, that staff, undergo relevant training, appropriate appointment of staff in relation to leading safeguarding arrangements
• robust policies and procedures being in place
• recognising the importance of information sharing
• developing awareness of high risk safeguarding areas such as peer on peer abuse and online safety
• considering whistleblowing safer recruitment and appropriate management of allegations against staff.

To register, please fill in the form on this page for each participant attending › Once we have received your registration, we will email you to confirm your place. Log-in details will be emailed once your course place has been confirmed.

As a safeguarding link governor, I found the training was very helpful and I particularly liked the action plan presented. Will be using that to help my school in their strategic planning.

This briefing will recap on the requirements of school leaders and governors in providing relationship sex education which aligns with their school’s Christian vision and identity. The LDBS policy and guidance will be shared, along with some resources which can be used to support the teaching of RSE.

There will be 15 minutes at the end of the session for questions and responses.

To book your place, please click here (opens to the LDBS website) >

• Jayne Pavlou is an experienced SIAMS inspector and a Quality Assurance Inspector for the national SIAMS team. She also leads on SIAMS for the LDBS.
• Tim Wright

Statutory requirement for education professionals meeting ‘robust 2-yearly training’ for those with a lead or designated professional role for safeguarding in schools. Having completed basic safeguarding training, this course equips professionals to perform their senior safeguarding function in schools.

• Latest legislation and procedures – reflecting the Education Acts and ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023
• Policy development
• Awareness of multi-agency working
• Information sharing
• The referral processes
• Thresholds or risk analysis within the context of children and young people
• Management of safeguarding with staff and within schools – including the response to sexual violence and sexual harassment
• Challenging topics are also explored from a management level

I really enjoyed the format of the training in comparison to others I have attended. Lots of strategic ideas to take away and tangible actions to work through as a team. Thank you.