KCSiE check in
- admin assistant
- Feb 3
- 2 min read
About 6 months ago your staff will have all had to declare somehow that they have read and understood KCSiE. The vast majority will also have actually done it! But it's 6 months later and, let's be honest, with the best will in the world you can't keep all that info in your head all the time. (If you can, please share your secrets!)
Which bits are your staff best at, and worst at? And which staff are best and worst at them? Groups? Individuals? How do you know and what are you going to do about it?
There are some great surveys and questionnaires out there to refresh your staff on this. For example, this is a free quiz from LgFL:
But there are also some that for a relatively small price not only will they issue the online quiz, but they'll analyse the results for you to show whether your TAs are up on their signs of abuse, or whether your teachers are lacking in their understanding of vulnerability. And once you know that, you can cut your cloth accordingly.
I always felt that September was the worst time to do safeguarding training as a whole staff – what a waste of a precious INSET day and they've forgotten it all by the time an issue arises! So in September we would use an online individual training package (with an assessment) as a refresher and give time in lieu from a future INSET for completing it. Then, in February we'd do the KCSiE quiz/questionnaire and from that determine what our biggest need for our big annual safeguarding training in March would be. And that was always a face-to-face INSET. It also meant that we could take 4 or 5 aspects of safeguarding practice and knowledge that wasn't strong for us or for groups of us, or training around an issue that had occurred in school, and offer a session on that with one of our DSLs.
For example, last year we found that knowledge of FGM was abysmally poor across the staff. So we did an hour's training (of a 2-hour twilight) on that as a whole staff, and then people could choose from 4 hour long sessions: signs of abuse, spotting concerning behaviour of adults (including those you might work with), online safety updates, and harmful sexual behaviours, all run by school DSLs (but we would get a specialist in if needed - if the analysis suggested it, or if it was beyond our expertise)
By tailoring the training to both the needs of the whole staff and also what their quiz results told them they weren't strong at individually, we had a far better chance of upskilling or strengthening our staff in safeguarding terms. And therefore keeping our children as safe as we can.
After all, safeguarding is for life, not just September INSET!
We used: https://schoolsurveys.net/kcsie-2025-quiz/ for £150
Other quizzes/assessments can be found at:
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