Safeguarding Skills Scan tool: Knowledge drives excellence

Our new Safeguarding Skills Scan tool assesses your staff with 12 questions randomly drawn from a safeguarding question bank, taken from our online safeguarding courses. The tool has been developed in line with the latest DfE safeguarding guidelines and allows the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) to:

• Assess staff’s safeguarding knowledge, confidence and skill gaps.
• Provide targeted training and support.
• Demonstrate your commitment to safeguarding for Ofsted and stakeholders.

How Safeguarding Skills Scan works

Our Safeguarding Skills Scan tool is easy to administer and can be done so following these simple steps:

1. Activate the Safeguarding Skills Scan feature in your LMS account.
2. Assign staff and choose a date, or let the system auto-select.
3. Staff will receive an email on the chosen date to take the assessment and rate their confidence.
4. Post-assessment, admins receive a detailed report outlining individual results, confidence levels and potential safeguarding knowledge gaps. Participants can view their results.

Our Safeguarding Skills Scan tool offers schools a number of benefits:

• Gain insights into staff’s safeguarding knowledge, pinpointing areas of strength and highlighting potential knowledge gaps, skill deficiencies and low confidence levels.
• Demonstrates your commitment to adhering to your statutory safeguarding requirements by showcasing your staff’s safeguarding knowledge levels.
• Provides evidence during inspections and meets your school’s ‘Leadership and Management’ objectives which are aligned with the Ofsted Inspection Framework.