Designated Safeguarding Lead Refresher 2026: Judgement Under Pressure
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Turn the KCSIE 2026 changes into actions for your setting and make and record threshold decisions you can defend.
- Assign to
- DSLs and deputies in schools and colleges
- Duration
- 34 minutes
- Evidence
- 13-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Turn the KCSIE 2026 changes into actions for your setting.
- Make and record threshold decisions you can defend.
- Handle nudes, harmful sexual behaviour and suicidal ideation safely.
- Get staff and systems ready for the mandatory reporting duty.
The course
- 01What changed
- 02Threshold decisions
- 03Child-on-child abuse
- 04Mental health and online risk
- 05Cover, records and the new duty
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Rewrite the September policy update”, learners rewrite a realistic document line by line and see the effect of each choice. In “Your conversation with the tutor”, a chat, learners practise what to say and do when the other person pushes back. The wrong options are things a well-meaning person might genuinely say, and the feedback explains why each one is tempting. Short animations show “One child, a rising picture”; and “The 23:40 alert, hour by hour”.
How you know they finished
The 13-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Roll it out with
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Education Act 2002
- Children Act 2004
- Crime and Policing Act 2026
- Online Safety Act 2023
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 13-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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