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Fire Safety webinar
Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service invites your school to a dedicated webinar on fire safety for educational premises, to enhance understanding of fire safety responsibilities and provide practical guidance tailored to schools.
Free ICT for Education conference - 9 May 2025
ICT for Education conferences are designed to inform and inspire the teaching of Computing and to encourage best practice in the use of ICT across the curriculum and throughout the school.
Launch of Eastern Protect website, a police led resource to counter fraud and cyber threats
The aim of this police resource is to raise fraud and cyber crime awareness and provide expert advice to individuals and organisations across the Eastern Region.
Protective Preparedness for Education Settings Webinar
The Department for Education (DfE) in partnership with the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) invite you to a webinar relevant to those working in education settings. The DfE Counter Terrorism Protect and Prepare Team will provide you with an overview and update on the proposed Protection of Premises Bill, also known as 'Martyn's Law', and its implications for the education sector. NaCTSO will also provide a briefing on how to consider terrorism protection and preparedness in your setting.
Safeguarding procedures for external speakers in educational settings
Education settings have a responsibility to ensure that the people they invite to speak are suitable and that all safeguarding procedures are followed.
Safeguarding Self Evaluation Form
Children's Services is undertaking the whole system audit of school and college safeguarding practices in line with statutory guidance
LA maintained school Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) networks
Updates to the organisation for LA maintained school Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) networks.
Safer Internet Day bite- sized briefing launched
Safer Internet Day 2025 will be celebrated on Tuesday, 11 February with the theme, 'Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online'.
Reminder: DBS Checks for Norfolk Children's Services Employees: policy and standards
Norfolk Children's Services would like to provide you with assurance of the policy and standards in place relating to Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for our employees.
DBS checks: administrative charges update
Norfolk County Council will be changing it charging arrangements for DBS checks and Barred List checks with effect from 1 April 2025.
Joint Targeted Area Inspection Announced
Information about the Joint Targeted Area Inspection in Norfolk announced on 25 November 2024. The inspection will focus on the multi-agency response to children, including unborn children, who are victims of domestic abuse.
Norfolk's Local Plan For Multi-Agency Safeguarding Arrangements (MASA) 2024
Norfolk's MASA, which sets out how the statutory partners work together to keep children safe from harm, is now published. This iteration of the plan is fully compliant with Working Together 2023 and includes details of our Lead and Delegated Statutory partners as well as more information on how education supports the arrangements as well as the crucial role that data and intelligence plays in our safeguarding work.
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