Keeping children safe in education

The purpose of this consultation is to gather views on the government’s proposals to reform safeguarding requirements and guidance in schools and further education colleges by:

• issuing new safeguarding guidance to schools and further education colleges to replace the current ‘Safeguarding children and safer recruitment in education’ and
• removing the regulation which makes it a requirement for at least one member of a recruitment panel in a school to have undertaken training in safer recruitment approved by the Secretary of State.