Safeguarding
The duty to safeguard and promote a child's welfare: child-protection records, the Designated Safeguarding Lead, referrals to the LADO and children's social care, and the hard timescales that are supposed to make it work.
Who's responsible
- Who holds the duty
- School, Headteacher, Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), Governors, LADO, Children's social care
- Who enforces it
- Ofsted
- Primary law
- Education Act 2002, s.175; Keeping Children Safe in Education (statutory guidance)
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