Doing business across cultures can be difficult. Language barriers, business etiquette, social hierarchy, gender issues and geo-political factors can all come into play simultaneously – often making what begins as a straightforward business transaction, into a tense exchange that occupies a substantial amount of time and effort.
There was a time – around the late nineties or early 2000’s, when online learning (or e-learning) experienced a fast and surprising evolution. Driven primarily by the requirements of higher education institutions and their need to provide students with information that was accessible all of the time, this period of change saw many pundits questioning the employment prospects for human instructors – who they suggested might be irrelevant in a new education environment…
iSafeguard Leeds – 29 March 2017, 4-6pm, Castleton Mill, Leeds The iSafeguard team has moved! We are now all settled into our lovely new offices at Castleton Mill in Leeds (just outside the city centre) and we would love for…
This week Sean Harford from Ofsted published a blog post about some of the misconceptions around the role of the organisation when it comes to safeguarding. You can read his blog post in full here. Below we discuss his remarks…
This month, I had a candid conversation with Ceri Stokes. Ceri is a passionate blogger, teacher, head of the boarding house at Kimbolton School and has been a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) for the past four years. We discussed how…
Hello, and welcome to iSafeguard Talks. Our first conversation was with Annie Clements, the CEO of the holistic and supportive enterprise, Autism & ADHD. Annie is also a current Advisor on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate Committee at the University of…
iSafeguard iSafeguard has been designed to allow those working with children and young people to see the connections when they need to and appreciate those times when there might not be any. It is a whole setting solution to protecting…
The brand new Impero i-Safeguard makes use of a multi-level, online training system that is connected to an online forum of safeguarding specialists. It also features regular term-time safeguarding updates and built-in reporting that allows school leaders to monitor the impact of the training. Impero i-Safeguard enables all school staff to take part in more engaging safeguarding training, 365 days of the year.
Ofsted have just released their new guidance document that sets out what inspectors will be looking for in relation to safeguarding in schools during the 2016 – 2017 academic year. Read the full document here.
Safeguarding in schools is a complicated task. All teachers and school staff want to protect young and vulnerable people from situations in which they may be put at risk, but knowing the best ways to do this is not always easy. As part of our Better Safeguarding Blog series, we look at Level 2 Safeguarding training to understand what it is and what you need to know.