Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026
Every member of school and college staff is legally required to read Part one of the KCSIE document. It provides statutory guidance for schools and is put together by the Department of Education. Our online version of the KCSIE document allows you to keep tabs on who has and who hasn’t read the guidance.
Every member of school and college staff is legally required to read Part one (or Annex A, where Governing bodies deem appropriate) of the KCSIE Document
- Health & Safety
- 40 languages
- 65m
Learning outcomes
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Grasp important safeguarding information that all staff are required to understand
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Recognise your role and your responsibilities
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Recognise how to deal with contemporary issues
Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 3 sections
- 1Summary
- 2Part one: Safeguarding information for all staff
- 3Annex A: Further information
Section 1
In this section, staff will gain a better understanding of the guidance and who it is for.
Section 2
Part one covers the core safeguarding knowledge all school and college staff need including their role and responsibilities, the signs and types of abuse/exploitation to watch for, and the steps to take if they have concerns about a child, from early help through to statutory intervention.
Section 3
Annex A contains important additional information about different forms of abuse and safeguarding issues. Leaders in Schools/Colleges and staff who work directly with children should read this.
About this course
We’ve put together this guidance for the upcoming KCSIE (Keeping Children Safe in Education) 2026 document to help you get your staff familiar with the proposed changes to the current KCSIE document.
This course allows for easy reporting, helping you keep tabs on who has and who hasn’t read the guidance.
We give this course away for free to all educational institute that purchases any of our other e-learning courses.
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This KCSIE course concludes with a multiple-choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in Atlas (our Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026 Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
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Amazing course
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
very informative
The course is informative, and detailed. I found it helpful that I could read some information, take a break and resume the course. The multiple choice questions were clear and easy to answer.
Helpful material on child protection in education.
Through this training, I have learned that safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. School and college staff must provide a safe environment, recognise signs of abuse, neglect and exploitation, and act quickly when concerns arise. I have also learned about the role of the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), keeping information confidential and sharing concerns with the right professionals. It is important to listen to children, take them seriously and offer support early to prevent harm. My main learning is that every child deserves to feel safe, supported and listened to.
Good training
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Good training
I almost never follow through online requests for rating & reviews, but I will make an exception in this case, just because I assume you will get a lot of bad reviews for this training. I found it extremely refreshing in this day and age to see a training without an audio/video track or animated graphics. Well done! It's not that difficult to engage your brain and focus on reading 34 pages
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This online training was very good and useful I enjoyed it
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Why is this training important
Compliance
It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
It’s crucial that all staff read Part one of the KSCIE document to better understand their safeguarding responsibilities.
This guidance applies to all schools and colleges and is for:
• headteachers, teachers and staff
• governing bodies, proprietors and management committeesIt sets out the legal duties you must follow to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 in schools and colleges.
All school and college staff should read part 1 of this guidance.
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