LESAS Child Protection Newsletter 25-26 Edition 4 Published

We are pleased to share Edition 4 of our Child Protection Newsletter, designed to
support your safeguarding work across schools, colleges and early years settings. This edition
brings together important updates, learning, resources and guidance from LESAS, KSCMP and
national partners.

View the Edition 4 DSL Newsletter for 2025–26: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/r2OFK28zkHBwfiCV?
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MUST READ ITEMS

• Updated LESAS policy templates, to reflect recent national guidance updates including Child Protection, Mobile Phones & Smart Devices and Social Media
• Key updates from Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026 and the KCSIE 2026 consultation
• Local learning from safeguarding practice reviews, including exploitation, Child Sexual Abuse, professional escalation and EHCP related risks
• Important Prevent updates including local support and new Home Office consolidated guidance
• Updated LESAS “Think Before You Share” guidance for responding to viral online concerns

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE

• Updates on other national consultations including, supporting pupils with medical conditions guidance, "growing up in the online world" and appropriate filtering and monitoring definitions
• Learning from the 'Protecting all Vulnerable Babies Better' national safeguarding practice review
• New national screen time guidance for under􀀀5s
• Information from Ofsted and LESAS about the Ofsted Complaints against schools process
• Local and national resources to support a range of safeguarding activity, including wellbeing and mental health, AI education and policies, Prevent, PSHE and more

Please feel free to share the newsletter link with your wider DSL teams and senior leaders.
If you've missed our previous editions, please access Child protection newsletters on KELSI:
https://www.kelsi.org.uk/child-protection-and-safeguarding/child-protection-newsletters

Thank you for your continued commitment to safeguarding.

Kind regards,
LADO Education Safeguarding Advisory Service (LESAS)