Safeguarding & Child Protection

Professional Development Opportunities 2025-26 -> Safeguarding & Child Protection

Safeguarding and Child Protection in education refers to the policies, practices and measures that schools and settings implement to protect children from harm, abuse and neglect.

Ensuring the welfare of our children must be our highest priority. All staff working in education share a responsibility to ensure children are safe while at school and that our schools and EOTAS settings play a full role in the wider child protection and safeguarding system.

The EA’s Child Protection Support Service (CPSS) provides a range of courses to help support good practice and build capacity in this area. Some of these courses are only open to staff who have been appointed to their schools’ safeguarding team.   However, there are a range of wider pre-recorded webinars that are available to all school staff. These are being added to on an ongoing basis.