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.

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 one day course will provide guidance and support to teachers in their new role as the RE leader. The course will provide ready-to-use ideas to engage staff and pupils. It will give participants the knowledge and confidence they need to be an effective and inspirational leader of RE:

• Roles and responsibilities of leading RE in a church school
• How to promote and maintain a high profile of the subject within the school
• The law and the national picture for RE
• Understanding the Church of England Statement of Entitlement for RE
• Understanding the key principles that underpin curriculum design
• Understanding the LDBS agreed syllabus

Mary Thorne leads on many of our RE courses. She leads on RE for the LDBS primary schools and runs the RE network meetings.

Very good and engaging, good pace with loads of content. Very  helpful in keeping me up to date in knowledge of RE teaching and statutory documents etc. Mary, as always you make everything seem managable and everyone feel calm.

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: 8 & 9 October 2024 @ 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: 8 & 9 October 2024 @ 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.

An exciting and engaging online session exploring how schools can improve their brand and marketing to better attract parents, students and even new staff.

The session will explore why your school brand is more than just a logo or colour, it will show how schools need to learn to create a stronger school/brand story and how to use that to promote and better position the school.

The session will be hosted and run by RAW Brothers, a unique creative consultancy agency who’ve helped many education, not-for-profit and commercial organisations develop their brands and space. They are highly experienced and sympathetic to the challenges schools are facing at this time.

This session will run for approximately 1.5 hours, followed by a 30 minute in-depth Q&A.

Raw Brothers have a proven track record spanning 20 years of providing creative consultancy services to companies and organisations, uniting organisational brand, people engagement and workplace strategy.

So different to what we usually receive, powerful, engaging and dynamic. Really enjoyed it.

This 3-day course is suitable for subject or phase leaders who have completed two or more years of successful classroom teaching.  It will cover a range of leadership aspects to support you has a middle leader.

Day 1:  The starting point – understanding whole school issues

• School context and history
• What does your school website say about your school?
• The role of the Governing Board
• Uderstanding external data
• What is your remit and who are your team?
• Knowing and resourcing your subject well
• ‘Championing’ your area of leadership

Click here to book your place ›

‘It was a very calm, purposeful and interesting day. Very helpful to liaise with others and understand roles of governing bodies, websites and various MLT strategies. The leaders of the course were very friendly and relatable. It was a very interactive and open and safe environment; I felt energised as a result of the content and look forward to trying out new techniques.’

This 5-day programme is aimed at leaders who want to develop their subject leadership skills to ensure it is strategic, has an impact on the whole school and is driven by the school’s distinctive Christian vision.

Programme Outline: 5 taught days, with up to 12 hours ‘out of class‘ to conduct and write up a piece of small-scale action research. Where possible, up to two visits to other schools to complete gap tasks/work collaboratively on a research project. There will be a short written reflection at the end of the programme, which focuses on the RE leader’s personal goal/s, plus an opportunity to share findings of the research project, and the impact of the study upon the school and themselves as leaders, with colleagues on Day 5.

Day 1:  Vision

• Vision for the programme
• Vision for RE: personally, locally and nationally
• Vision of Me: leading with integrity – what is my vision? Who am I as a leader?
• Thinking strategically
• Being a leader who has impact

Click here to book your place ›

• Mary Thorne: Primary school link adviser, leading on RE for the London Diocesan Board for Schools. Her role involves supporting school improvement and leading training in the areas of middle leadership, collective worship, spirituality and RE. Mary also leads on the RE training for Teaching London LDBS Scitt programme. Before coming into this role, Mary was a primary school head teacher of a church school for ten years in the London Borough of Camden.

I would absolutely recommend this programme, it is good to network with others and develop your practice in teaching RE. Mary, as always you make everything seem managable and everyone feel calm.

Heads Up for Brand is the first session of our Comms Package.

Great brands are true stories told well. We believe your school brand should be an authentic exciting story that inspires your students, staff, teachers and engages new parents. This immersive session – for only 10 attendees – explores how to strengthen your school story, values, personality and brand identity.

There will be interactive activities to look at the challenges and opportunities facing your own school. The session helps head teachers to create bonds with those on a similar journey, it will also highlight the importance of communicating a confident and consistent school brand.

This 1/2 day session will be hosted and run by RAW Brothers, who have helped many education, not-for-profit and commercial organisations develop their brands and space. They are highly experienced and sympathetic to the challenges schools are facing at this time.

There will also be a free follow up session ‘One-to-One With Heads‘ for those attending this course.

Note: This course forms part of our Comms Package and cannot be booked separately. To book your place on our Comms Package, please email grow@london.anglican.org with the header ‘Comms Package 2024‘. Currently there are only a few spaces left.

Raw Brothers have a proven track record spanning 20 years of providing creative consultancy services to companies and organisations, uniting organisational brand, people engagement and workplace strategy.

I could have stayed all day! The examples and how we could use them were really thought-provoking and provided a fresh idea to approaching marketing. It was really well matched to the needs of audience, with great messaging and unpicking of what ‘brand’ means. So much useful content, especially the thoughts around ‘story’.

Effective Social Media Part II offers a continuation for those wanting to further develop their use of Social Media at their schools.

Social media, and how to use it effectively, is a topic that lots of schools discuss. There are real opportunities if it is used well, but there are also many understandable concerns about the risks that are also associated with “putting yourselves out there” into the world of social media.

Note: This course forms part of our Comms Package and cannot be booked separately. To book your place on our Comms Package, please email grow@london.anglican.org with the header ‘Comms Package 2024‘.

So interesting and informative, really great to hear new information and tips & tricks, as well as have an insight into which social media apps target different age groups (children AND parents!). Full of concrete steps and advice to inspire social media use. Practical, eye-opening and useful, this is the sort of input leaders need – thank you!

Heads Up for Brand 2.0 is a continuation of our initial “Heads Up for Brand” session providing the opportunity to dive deeper into important issues around branding.

Great brands are true stories told well. We believe your school brand should be an authentic exciting story that inspires your students, staff, teachers and engages new parents. This immersive session explores how to strengthen your school story, values, personality and brand identity.

There will be interactive activities to look at the challenges and opportunities facing your own school. The session helps head teachers to create bonds with those on a similar journey, it will also highlight the importance of communicating a confident and consistent school brand.

This 1/2 day session will be hosted and run by RAW Brothers, who have helped many education, not-for-profit and commercial organisations develop their brands and space. They are highly experienced and sympathetic to the challenges schools are facing at this time.

Note: This course forms part of our Comms Package and cannot be booked separately. To book your place on our Comms Package, please email grow@london.anglican.org with the header ‘Comms Package 2024‘.

Raw Brothers have a proven track record spanning 20 years of providing creative consultancy services to companies and organisations, uniting organisational brand, people engagement and workplace strategy.

I could have stayed all day! The examples and how we could use them were really thought-provoking and provided a fresh idea to approaching marketing. It was really well matched to the needs of audience, with great messaging and unpicking of what ‘brand’ means. So much useful content, especially the thoughts around ‘story’.

This 3-day course is suitable for subject or phase leaders who have completed two or more years of successful classroom teaching.  It will cover a range of leadership aspects to support you has a middle leader.

Day 2:  Ensuring a quality education for all

• What makes for a high quality inclusive, diverse and anti-racist curriculum?
• Developing skills in carrying out lesson visits
• Giving effective feedback
• Pupils’ attitude and behaviour – how to promote positive approaches to your area of responsibility
• Developing skills in how to have a ‘difficult’ conversation

Click here to book your place ›

‘It was a very calm, purposeful and interesting day. Very helpful to liaise with others and understand roles of governing bodies, websites and various MLT strategies. The leaders of the course were very friendly and relatable. It was a very interactive and open and safe environment; I felt energised as a result of the content and look forward to trying out new techniques.’

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.

This 5-day programme is aimed at leaders who want to develop their subject leadership skills to ensure it is strategic, has an impact on the whole school and is driven by the school’s distinctive Christian vision.

Programme Outline: 5 taught days, with up to 12 hours ‘out of class‘ to conduct and write up a piece of small-scale action research. Where possible, up to two visits to other schools to complete gap tasks/work collaboratively on a research project. There will be a short written reflection at the end of the programme, which focuses on the RE leader’s personal goal/s, plus an opportunity to share findings of the research project, and the impact of the study upon the school and themselves as leaders, with colleagues on Day 5.

Day 2:  Wisdom, Knowledge & Skills

• What does it mean to lead wisely?
• Strategic view of RE curriculum
• What is action research?

Click here to book your place ›

• Mary Thorne: Primary school link adviser, leading on RE for the London Diocesan Board for Schools. Her role involves supporting school improvement and leading training in the areas of middle leadership, collective worship, spirituality and RE. Mary also leads on the RE training for Teaching London LDBS Scitt programme. Before coming into this role, Mary was a primary school head teacher of a church school for ten years in the London Borough of Camden.

I would absolutely recommend this programme, it is good to network with others and develop your practice in teaching RE. Mary, as always you make everything seem managable and everyone feel calm.

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

Effective Social Media is the third and final session of our Comms Package.

Social media, and how to use it effectively, is a topic that lots of schools discuss. There are real opportunities if it is used well, but there are also many understandable concerns about the risks that are also associated with “putting yourselves out there” into the world of social media.

This session will explore:

1. What is social media and what are the different ways of engaging with it?
2. How does a school develop a social media approach?
3. What does “good” look like?
4. How does a school put in place strategies to manage risk?
5. What happens if it goes wrong? The best ways to respond to issues.

Note: This course forms part of our Comms Package and cannot be booked separately. To book your place on our Comms Package, please email grow@london.anglican.org with the header ‘Comms Package 2024‘.

So interesting and informative, really great to hear new information and tips & tricks, as well as have an insight into which social media apps target different age groups (children AND parents!). Full of concrete steps and advice to inspire social media use. Practical, eye-opening and useful, this is the sort of input leaders need – thank you!

Presentation Magic is the second session of our Comms Package. During this unique one-day course, you will learn the secrets and strategies used by magicians to engage and persuade quickly and efficiently, and how these skills can transform your presentations and conficen in communication, including:

• Effective ‘pitching’: how to convey key information engagingly and persuasively to ‘sell’ your school;
• Confidence: tips and tricks for overcoming nerves and projecting confidence and authority;
• Time management: preparing and presenting under time pressure;
• Building on strengths: identifying and maximising existing communication and presentation abilities;

Conducted in a safe judgment-free environment, the emphasis will be on having fun (and learning some magic!), to re-energise your approach to delivering effective presentations.

Note: This course forms part of our Comms Package and cannot be booked separately. To book your place on our Comms Package, please email grow@london.anglican.org with the header ‘Comms Package 2024‘.

Richard McDougall, Guy Hollingworth and David Owen are the lead trainers behind Presentation Magic. They bring a unique approach towards improving presentation and communication techniques; and have delivered their workshops to some of the largest companies in the world.

‘Our unique sessions are entirely practical, stimulating, fun and unlike any other course on the topic you will ever have done.’

Heads Up for Brand is the first session of our Comms Package.

Great brands are true stories told well. We believe your school brand should be an authentic exciting story that inspires your students, staff, teachers and engages new parents. This immersive session – for only 10 attendees – explores how to strengthen your school story, values, personality and brand identity.

There will be interactive activities to look at the challenges and opportunities facing your own school. The session helps head teachers to create bonds with those on a similar journey, it will also highlight the importance of communicating a confident and consistent school brand.

This 1/2 day session will be hosted and run by RAW Brothers, who have helped many education, not-for-profit and commercial organisations develop their brands and space. They are highly experienced and sympathetic to the challenges schools are facing at this time.

There will also be a free follow up session ‘One-to-One With Heads‘ for those attending this course.

Note: This course forms part of our Comms Package and cannot be booked separately. To book your place on our Comms Package, please email grow@london.anglican.org with the header ‘Comms Package 2024‘. Currently there are only a few spaces left.

Raw Brothers have a proven track record spanning 20 years of providing creative consultancy services to companies and organisations, uniting organisational brand, people engagement and workplace strategy.

I could have stayed all day! The examples and how we could use them were really thought-provoking and provided a fresh idea to approaching marketing. It was really well matched to the needs of audience, with great messaging and unpicking of what ‘brand’ means. So much useful content, especially the thoughts around ‘story’.

This 3-day course is suitable for subject or phase leaders who have completed two or more years of successful classroom teaching.  It will cover a range of leadership aspects to support you has a middle leader.

Day 3:  Leading with a clear vision, preparing for inspections and engaging with all stakeholders

• Leading in a church school – what makes it different and distinctive?
• Preparing for inspection
• Understanding what a ‘deep dive’ might look like
• Engaging the wider community, including parents/carers, in school improvement
• Cultural capital – what does it mean in your context?
• Maintaining your personal resilience and wellbeing
• Effective action planning and evaluating impact
• Planning your next steps back in school in your role as a middle leader

Click here to book your place ›

‘It was a very calm, purposeful and interesting day. Very helpful to liaise with others and understand roles of governing bodies, websites and various MLT strategies. The leaders of the course were very friendly and relatable. It was a very interactive and open and safe environment; I felt energised as a result of the content and look forward to trying out new techniques.’

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 5-day programme is aimed at leaders who want to develop their subject leadership skills to ensure it is strategic, has an impact on the whole school and is driven by the school’s distinctive Christian vision.

Programme Outline: 5 taught days, with up to 12 hours ‘out of class‘ to conduct and write up a piece of small-scale action research. Where possible, up to two visits to other schools to complete gap tasks/work collaboratively on a research project. There will be a short written reflection at the end of the programme, which focuses on the RE leader’s personal goal/s, plus an opportunity to share findings of the research project, and the impact of the study upon the school and themselves as leaders, with colleagues on Day 5.

Day 3: Dignity & Respect

• How can we lead with dignity and respect?
• Strategic view of assessment
• How does a commitment to generous hospitality impact: our representation of religion and worldviews; the dignity of pupils in the classroom; RE and social cohesion?
• Research Project ‘Surgery’

Click here to book your place ›

• Mary Thorne: Primary school link adviser, leading on RE for the London Diocesan Board for Schools. Her role involves supporting school improvement and leading training in the areas of middle leadership, collective worship, spirituality and RE. Mary also leads on the RE training for Teaching London LDBS Scitt programme. Before coming into this role, Mary was a primary school head teacher of a church school for ten years in the London Borough of Camden.

I would absolutely recommend this programme, it is good to network with others and develop your practice in teaching RE. Mary, as always you make everything seem managable and everyone feel calm.

We will explore the requirements set out in the SIAMS Framework for supporting and developing the spirituality of pupils within church schools. We will share ideas on how to begin to develop high quality provision, both within collective worship and the wider curriculum, giving leaders the confidence and resources to go back and try in their own schools.

• 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.
• Mary Hawes 

“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.

This 5-day programme is aimed at leaders who want to develop their subject leadership skills to ensure it is strategic, has an impact on the whole school and is driven by the school’s distinctive Christian vision.

Programme Outline: 5 taught days, with up to 12 hours ‘out of class‘ to conduct and write up a piece of small-scale action research. Where possible, up to two visits to other schools to complete gap tasks/work collaboratively on a research project. There will be a short written reflection at the end of the programme, which focuses on the RE leader’s personal goal/s, plus an opportunity to share findings of the research project, and the impact of the study upon the school and themselves as leaders, with colleagues on Day 5.

Day 4: Community and living well together ‘Providing skills to know how to disagree well and live with contradictory convictions, so all are confident to share their views.’

• Leading with integrity
• Implementing change as a leader
• Leading staff meetings and training sessions
• Feeding back training and principles for leading meetings
• Subject Leader ‘Surgery’ dealing with difficult situations and conversations and the right to withdraw

Click here to book your place ›

• Mary Thorne: Primary school link adviser, leading on RE for the London Diocesan Board for Schools. Her role involves supporting school improvement and leading training in the areas of middle leadership, collective worship, spirituality and RE. Mary also leads on the RE training for Teaching London LDBS Scitt programme. Before coming into this role, Mary was a primary school head teacher of a church school for ten years in the London Borough of Camden.

I would absolutely recommend this programme, it is good to network with others and develop your practice in teaching RE. Mary, as always you make everything seem managable and everyone feel calm.

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 5-day programme is aimed at leaders who want to develop their subject leadership skills to ensure it is strategic, has an impact on the whole school and is driven by the school’s distinctive Christian vision.

Programme Outline: 5 taught days, with up to 12 hours ‘out of class‘ to conduct and write up a piece of small-scale action research. Where possible, up to two visits to other schools to complete gap tasks/work collaboratively on a research project. There will be a short written reflection at the end of the programme, which focuses on the RE leader’s personal goal/s, plus an opportunity to share findings of the research project, and the impact of the study upon the school and themselves as leaders, with colleagues on Day 5.

Day 5: Hope & Aspiration ‘Reflecting on the journey’

• What does it mean to be hopeful and full of aspiration?
• Personal reflection on development of leadership skills
• Sharing of research projects
• What now?
• Evaluation of the programme

Click here to book your place ›

• Mary Thorne: Primary school link adviser, leading on RE for the London Diocesan Board for Schools. Her role involves supporting school improvement and leading training in the areas of middle leadership, collective worship, spirituality and RE. Mary also leads on the RE training for Teaching London LDBS Scitt programme. Before coming into this role, Mary was a primary school head teacher of a church school for ten years in the London Borough of Camden.

I would absolutely recommend this programme, it is good to network with others and develop your practice in teaching RE. Mary, as always you make everything seem managable and everyone feel calm.

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.