Safeguarding Annual Report
An annual safeguarding report for governors summarising safeguarding activities, training, referrals, policy reviews, and the school's commitment to keeping children safe.
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Greenwood International School SAFEGUARDING ANNUAL REPORT 2025-2026 Report Date: 2026-09-01 Designated Safeguarding Lead: [dsl_name] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY SAFEGUARDING ACTIVITIES During 2025-2026, the school has: • Conducted [Number] safeguarding training sessions • Trained [Number] new staff on safeguarding procedures • Updated the Child Protection Policy [Number] times • Participated in [Number] multi-agency meetings • Delivered [Number] student safety awareness sessions • Completed [Number] DBS checks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERRAL DATA Referrals made this year: • Total referrals to Children's Social Care: [Number] • Referrals categorised as: - Neglect: [Number] - Physical abuse: [Number] - Emotional abuse: [Number] - Sexual abuse: [Number] - Online safety: [Number] - Other: [Number] • Referrals resolved at school level: [Number] • Students currently with a child protection plan: [Number] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ POLICY REVIEWS Safeguarding policies reviewed this year: • Child Protection Policy — Reviewed: [Date] — Status: [Approved] • Online Safety Policy — Reviewed: [Date] — Status: [Approved] • Behaviour Policy (safeguarding aspects) — Reviewed: [Date] • Anti-bullying Policy — Reviewed: [Date] • Letting and Recruitment Policy — Reviewed: [Date] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIORITIES FOR NEXT YEAR Priorities for [next_academic_year]: 1. [Priority 1 — e.g. "Enhanced online safety training for students"] 2. [Priority 2 — e.g. "Staff training on recognising signs of neglect"] 3. [Priority 3 — e.g. "Review of filtering and monitoring systems"] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This report is submitted to the governing body for discussion. [dsl_name] Designated Safeguarding Lead Greenwood International School
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An annual safeguarding report covering referrals, training, policy review and culture, prepared for governors and inspection.
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Topics this template covers: safeguarding report · child protection · annual safeguarding · DSO report
How to Use This Template
Set Academic Year and Report Date, then have the Designated Safeguarding Lead summarise Key Safeguarding Activities (training completed, policy reviews, culture work) before touching numbers.
Complete Referral Data as anonymised counts with trend commentary, list Policy Reviews with dates, and set Safeguarding Priorities for Next Year against identified gaps. Sign with Headteacher Name, present to governors in a dedicated agenda item with appropriate confidentiality, and retain the record for inspection and the school's safeguarding audit trail.
When to Use This Template
End-of-term reporting
Assemble attendance figures, highlights and action points into one consistent document for leadership or governors at the close of a term.
Ad-hoc status updates
Need to report on a transport review or parent survey on short notice? Fill in the same sections and send a document people already know how to read.
Comparing results term over term
Keep the section headings identical between terms so leadership can compare attendance, outcomes and initiatives side by side without rebuilding the structure each time.
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