Reminder about Audit of School Safeguarding Practices 2024-2025

As per the news item from 4 March 2025 you will be aware that Children's Services is undertaking the whole system audit of school and college safeguarding practices in line with statutory guidance. Education settings are therefore required to submit the safeguarding self-review tool in line with the timescale detailed below. 

Paragraph 79 of Working Together to Safeguard Children states, 'Education providers, including multi-academy trusts, have a responsibility to play their full part in local safeguarding arrangements, including where their footprint extends across several local authority areas. This includes, but should not be limited to, responding to safeguarding audits of quality and compliance, as requested by the local authority and/or local safeguarding partners. This is to ensure that policies are consistent with the local multi-agency safeguarding arrangements and relevant legislation and/or regulations.'  

This is a reminder that the deadline for completion is 11 July 2025.  

Th evaluation tool is accessible to all educational settings via Norfolk County Council's My Schools section of the Norfolk Schools and Learning Providers site. Once you have logged on to the system, you will be able to access the tool via the 'School Performance' tab. Further guidance on completing the tool is available on those pages. 

It is crucial that you input the information on My School and do not download the Word document to complete as there is no facility to upload the self-review tool afterwards. 

If you work in a federation or partnership of schools one submission can be made but it is crucial that you inform the Education Safeguarding Team by emailing educationsafeguarding@norfolk.gov.uk so we can duplicate the information for all of the settings. 

If you do have any queries, please email educationsafeguarding@norfolk.gov.uk  

If you have issues logging into My School, please email csepublishing@norfolk.gov.uk who will be able to support you.  

Thank you for your co-operation and support with this audit.