Education
Multi-Academy Trusts
Trusted by Hundreds of Multi-Academy Trusts
We are safeguarding specialists, working with MATs of all sizes to help them successfully achieve high standards of professional safeguarding practice and consistency across all their establishments.
Maybe you’re already a large Multi-Academy Trust or one on a smaller scale. Perhaps you’re considering your future growth strategy including possible mergers.
You may be seeking the information as part of a procurement process, or you’ve happened upon us and you’re keen to become a leading safeguarding establishment.
We are here to thrive and grow with you.
TOTAL SAFEGUARDING
We believe that successfully achieving high standards of professional safeguarding practice is founded on eight core principles that come together to create Total Safeguarding:
• Strong governance, leadership and management
• A clear focus on harm prevention and reduction
• Efficient recording and case management of concerns
• Effective team working within and between individuals and organisations
• Managing and sharing information securely, lawfully, and pro-actively
• Securing professional and emotional support for your people, your teams and yourself
• Being able to see the rich picture – understanding your data and developing insight
• Learning lessons from your own professional practice and that of others.
The essential step to Total Safeguarding is to combine the practice of safeguarding with the very best technology - each is necessary, individually they are unlikely to meet the current safeguarding challenge. Together we can create everything you need for yours to be a world-class safeguarding organisation – one that protects children and adults and supports them to have the best outcomes in learning, in work and in life.
SAFEGUARDING IN MULTI-ACADEMY TRUSTS: ADOPTING A STRATEGIC APPROACH
Our Strategic Safeguarding Model sets out eight key principles for safeguarding.
Free Download For MAT Senior LeadersSolutions
Our suite of safeguarding solutions to support MATs is ever-growing, so we can help with your safeguarding processes in a number of ways. From MyConcern, which offers secure management of all categories of safeguarding, child protection and pastoral concerns, to Clarity, our game-changing high-level reporting system for senior leaders, which provides anonymised data across multiple establishments using MyConcern to track issues and trends. This makes your safeguarding information a major strategic asset. Explore our products below:
For Concerns about Children and Young Adults
Easy-to-use, centralised, secure record-keeping and case management for all types of safeguarding concerns
Find out moreFor Safer Recruitment
A safer recruitment and personnel vetting tool that acts as your Single Central Record. Designed to guide you through the recruitment process and to ensure that no check is missed
Find out moreFor Multi-establishment Reporting
A powerful reporting tool designed exclusively for multi-establishment safeguarding. Paired with MyConcern and Confide to provide high-level, anonymised reporting across groups of establishments
Find out moreFor Training and Audits
Our package of safeguarding training and audit services to help you build and maintain safeguarding expertise in your organisation
Find out moreWe Are Safeguardians
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Build a Rich Picture
Gaining a multi-establishment perspective provides much greater insight to improve safeguarding practice
Safeguarding concerns are rarely limited to a single place or issue - they often occur in multiple locations and involve several people and issues. Building a rich picture using a wide base of data and from a multi-establishment perspective can provide much greater insight. Organisation-wide and even community-based action now becomes possible.
Data from multiple instances of MyConcern can be analysed using the advanced capabilities of Clarity to track trends, identify actionable opportunities for intervention, save time and money, and improve safeguarding practice.
Lessons Will Be Learned - Available Now
The only book of its kind, wholly focused on strategic safeguarding in education. Combining the authors’ 75+ years of experience in child protection, safeguarding young people and vulnerable adults, into a digestible and easy to read format.
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The MAT Safeguarding Challenge
A vital session discussing the unique safeguarding challenges being faced by senior leaders in MATs and the importance of taking a strategic approach to improve practice and embed consistency in a multi-academy setting.
Contextual Safeguarding Webinar
Chief Safeguarding Officer Mike Glanville explores the application of contextual safeguarding from a strategic perspective and explains how it can be used to support the planning process and improve safeguarding practice as part of a whole-school approach.
Early Intervention Webinar
In this session, Safeguarding Trainer, Adele Barry, examines the potential of early intervention. Effective interventions can improve a child's outcomes at any point during childhood and adolescence. MyConcern is an effective safeguarding software solution that allows Safeguarding Leads to spot trends and enable early intervention.
Managing Safeguarding & Stress
In this webinar, we asked how safeguarding leads can prepare and protect themselves, to be ready when required to step into action. How can they build emotional reserves for resilience as part of a strategic approach to managing the role? What are the best techniques to deal with stress in the moment?
