- Leadership must ensure that arrangements are made to safeguard and promote the welfare of pupils40 that meet the requirements of the Standards and (as applicable), the Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework, The National Minimum Standards for boarding schools, the National Minimum Standards for Residential Special Schools41 or the National Minimum Standards for Accommodation of Children under Eighteen by Further Education Colleges.42
- Inspection findings with regard to safeguarding are based on the evidence available to inspectors at the time of inspection. Inspectors probe and evaluate this evidence carefully and robustly, informed by applicable statutory guidance. However, inspection cannot provide absolute assurance that a school is safe.
- The proprietor must ensure that leaders and managers have effective arrangements in place:
- to safeguard and promote the welfare of pupils which fulfil the requirements of the latest statutory guidance43 and any other safeguarding regulations applicable to the school
- that promote the school's effective working with other partnerships and agencies to safeguard pupils and protect them from harm
- that effective measures are taken to manage risk and protect pupils from harm, and to manage well any incidents that do occur.
- Leadership must ensure that the school has effective arrangements, reviewed regularly, to ensure that pupils know how to stay safe while online.
- Leadership must ensure that the applicable requirements of the Standards44 relating to the suitability of staff, supply staff and proprietors are met.