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Safeguarding Conversations — 125 episodes

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1

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 – Part 1

2

Justice Punishment & Rehabilitation

3

Emotional Abuse

4

Masking, Distress and Hidden Vulnerability

5

Working with Virtual School Heads

6

Professional curiosity, cumulative harm and recognising patterns early

7

SEND Reform: The safeguarding implications for Schools

8

County Lines – The Growing Danger for Girls

9

Understanding Sextortion

10

Use of Reasonable Force in Schools

11

Mobile Phone Free Schools

12

Emotional Wellbeing

13

Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026

14

Whistleblowing in schools

15

The Importance of Sleep for Children's Mental Health and Learning

16

Lessons for Prevent

17

Freedom from Violence and Abuse

18

AI, Deepfakes and Safeguarding

19

Sara Sharif a life surrounded by risk

20

Safeguarding Through the Festive Season

21

Safeguarding the Youngest Learners: Key Risks in EYFS

22

Domestic Abuse: Beyond the Label

23

Martyn's Law Update

24

Safeguarding and the Abuse of Power

25

Safer Recruitment in Schools

26

Duty of Care – Digital Oversight, Cyber Risk and Insurance in Schools

27

Ofsted Report Cards

28

The DSL's Guide to Starting the New Academic Year

29

Supporting Children with ADHD

30

The Chid Zeta Case part 3 - System failure or missed chance

31

The Chid Zeta Case part 2 - Knife Crime & Safeguarding - what Zeta's story tells us

32

The Chid Zeta Case part 1 - A life on the edge the background and exploitation of child Zeta

33

Supporting Children with Autism in Schools

34

Tackling Youth Violence: Why RSHE Matters More Than Ever

35

Supporting Children with Dyslexia

36

Unregulated Settings

37

Supporting Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder

38

Influencer Culture and Children's Self-Esteem

39

School Refusal

40

What the 2025 RSHE Guidance means for Schools

41

Embedding a Culture of Safeguarding – An Ofsted Perspective

42

How Online Culture Is Affecting School Behaviour

43

The Rise of Hidden Homelessness

44

The Casey Audit

45

The Rise of Online Gambling Among Teens

46

How Can Schools Spot Online Grooming?

47

Vicarious Trauma in Schools

48

Child Poverty - the Education Response

49

What the New Terrorism Protection Act Means for Schools

50

Ofcom's New Online Safety Codes

51

KCSIE v ABE – Challenges in School Safeguarding Record-Keeping

52

Top Tips for Writing Safeguarding Reports

53

The Church of England's Safeguarding Crisis

54

Safeguarding Against 'Squaring'

55

Safeguarding in Early Years – Reforms & Challenges

56

Child-on-Child Sexual Abuse – Understanding the Legal and Safeguarding Implications

57

Family Court Reporting – What's Changed and Why It Matters

58

The State of Childhood Wellbeing

59

Ofsted's New Safeguarding Judgement

60

New Guidance on Reasonable Force and Restrictive Interventions in Schools

61

Is Prevent Fit for Purpose

62

Health & Safety Walks

63

Tackling Behaviour Challenges in England's Schools

64

Stealthing

65

Lessons from the Sara Sharif Case

66

Rotherham, Musk & the Battle for Truth

67

Safeguarding Children in Clubs and Activities

68

Keeping Children Safe, Helping Families Thrive - part 2

69

Keeping Children Safe, Helping Families Thrive - part 1

70

What's really behind teacher shortages here and abroad?

71

The challenges of being a new Designated Safeguarding Lead

72

School budgets and Safeguarding 2025- 2026

73

The dangers of asbestos in schools

74

Catfishing

75

UK GDPR in schools

76

Understanding regulated activity in schools

77

Navigating Speech & Language Challenges Post Pandemic

78

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

79

Understanding kinship care

80

Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking

81

New County Lines Policing Strategy

82

The dangers of teenage spice use in vapes

83

The Social and Psychological Constructs of Gang Violence

84

Reasonable Force and Restraint

85

Guiding students through discussions about violent incidents

86

Racism, riots & civil unrest

87

KCSIE 2024 Update

88

Post-Pandemic challenges for children with SEND

89

Should child murderers be named?

90

Guiding children through difficult conversations

91

The Rising Pressures on SENDCOs

92

Child-on-Child Sexual Violence, Abuse & Harassment

93

Managed Moves

94

Protecting workers from workplace violence & aggression

95

Ofcom Consultation: Protecting children from harms online

96

e-Learning-Online Safeguarding Training

97

Safeguarding Vulnerable Children from Criminal Networks

98

School Absence

99

Deepfakes

100

Food Safety & Hygiene in Schools

101

Supporting children with gender identity questions

102

Mobile Phones in Schools

103

Child Sexual Exploitation

104

Cyber-flashing

105

County Lines

106

Doxing

107

The Role of the Appropriate Adult

108

Honour Based Abuse

109

Forced Marriage

110

Female Genital Mutilation

111

Artificial Intelligence

112

Supporting Children with Gender Identity

113

'Patterning'

114

Knife Crime

115

Sexism and misogyny

116

Safeguarding Out of School Hours

117

Safeguarding Looked After Children

118

End-to-end encryption on Meta

119

Serious Case Review

120

Gaslighting

121

Adverse Childhood Experiences & Trauma Informed Practice

122

The Beyond Ofsted Inquiry

123

Domestic Abuse

124

Prevent Duty

125

Introduction