Meet the requirements of training all your staff and governors
A FLEXIBLE TRAINING SOLUTION
Our safeguarding courses and resources can be accessed throughout the year, completed at your own pace and re-watched as many times as you like.
Sign Up For Updates
Register your interest below and we'll keep you updated over the coming months, and you'll be the first to know about our brand new subscription service when it launches in January.Services For Education is the preferred provider for DSL training for schools and education settings in Birmingham.
Services For Education is providing the safeguarding subscription for all schools in Birmingham. We have worked with colleagues within Birmingham Local Authority and schools to tailor the support.
- Meet the requirements of training all your staff and governors
- Meet your own CPD needs
- Make sure that your safeguarding system within your school or setting is effective and supports the wellbeing of your pupils.
This really is the best way to stay up to date and to ensure your school is up to date with all your safeguarding requirements.
LOCAL AND NATIONAL EXPERTISE
Our award-winning team of safeguarding advisers have over 20 years of experience and work with over 1,200 senior safeguarding staff each year.
JOIN THE COMMUNITY
We will set up a community page for you to connect and share practice with other schools who are also committed to making Birmingham a safer place for children.
find out more about our safeguarding subscription
This podcast interview with Sandra Passmore, Senior Adviser and Safeguarding Lead at Services For Education, reveals why the safeguarding subscription was created in the first place, and what you can expect to gain from it.
what's included in the subscription?
Video based training on the key topics in KCSIE, and wider safeguarding issues and areas of concern e.g. Domestic Abuse and its effects upon children, ‘so-called’ Honour based Abuse (including FGM, forced marriage, breast ironing).
Exclusive access to safeguarding masterclasses, put together based on feedback and questions we receive from you, our safeguarding subscription members.
Video based training to cover the safeguarding training requirements of all staff based on KCSIE 2020.
For some topics, additional training which will look at how this topic can be included in the curriculum and ideas for teaching this (in an age appropriate manner).
A series of short, practical ‘how to’ video guides, based on KCSIE Annex B on the Role of the DSL, aimed at new DSLs and addressing a range of practice based issues, for example, aspects of safer working practice, information sharing and safeguarding, working with your SG Governor, how to develop the vulnerable child list.
Membership of our community. We will be working on a way to bring DSLs from Birmingham together to share best practice and ask advice in a private, safe environment.
Video based training to cover the training requirements of Governing bodies and their duties in relation to safeguarding.
A variety of other updates and resources shared throughout the year, including blogs, visual resources and signposts to important statutory documents and updates.
Plus exclusive safeguarding discounts. You will receive discount coupons for our Birmingham City Council endorsed DSL training and the official Safer Recruitment training, certified by the Safer Recruitment Consortium.
pricing structure
We have three pricing levels for schools, depending on how many licenses you need. For example, if you have only up to 10 DSLs and other safeguarding staff who need to access the training and resources, our middle package would work best at £600 per year.
course sample
An example of one of many resources and courses a member of our safeguarding subscription would get access to.
Our resources and digital courses take different formats, but here is a sample of one of our recent safeguarding insets, conducted by Senior Adviser and Safeguarding Lead, Sandra Passmore.
This session is designed for whole staff groups and covers the key essentials and principles of safeguarding and child protection in an educational setting including the updated Keeping Children Safe in Education.
need safeguarding training now?
Services For Education is the preferred provider for DSL training for schools and education settings in Birmingham. We provide a range of courses and CPD for DSLs and school staff. Some are exclusive to schools using the safeguarding subscription.
Don’t forget to sign up to the safeguarding subscription before booking onto your update, safer recruitment and the online safeguarding course as you’ll get access to exclusive coupons!
Browse our safeguarding offer below, or see our full range of training courses here.
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Safeguarding
£15.00 / User
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Mental Health and Wellbeing
£25.00
NEW FREE WEBINARS
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Preparing for the Full Return to School in September – Free Webinar Series
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Safeguarding
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£270.00
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Leadership and Management
Safeguarding and Child Protection for Headteachers and Nominated Governors
Multiple DatesNext: 24/01/2022
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Leadership and Management
Update for Existing DSLs on Safeguarding and Child Protection
Multiple DatesNext: 22/11/2021
£155.00
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Online Safeguarding and Child Protection for Designated Safeguarding Leads (Two Day Course)
Multiple DatesNext: 15/11/2021
£505.00
2021/22
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Safeguarding and Child Protection for Designated Safeguarding Leads (Two Day Course)
Multiple DatesNext: 18/10/2021
£505.00
about services for education
Services For Education annually provides safeguarding training to over 1200 senior leaders and governors, and has provided the majority of safeguarding training to Birmingham schools for 25 years.
We work closely with Birmingham Local Authority and contribute to a number of city– wide strategic groups. We have won multiple awards for our work with schools were winners of the including the 2019 GBCC Award for Excellence in Training and Education.
Our advisers can also work in your school to deliver bespoke training sessions to meet your schools exact specific needs. To discuss your training requirements please email hello@servicesforeducation.co.uk
about the team
Senior Adviser, Services For Education
Sandra is a Senior Adviser in the School Support Service and has extensive experience in safeguarding, health and wellbeing and evidence based practice. She has worked nationally with key government departments (Departments of Health and Education) to help shape strategy and policy whilst still retaining the focus on working for the best outcomes for children and young people.
She has a PhD on the psychology of health related choices which has informed the development of award winning, evidence based programmes such as Health for Life in primary schools and Health for Life in nursery schools which have been proven to have a sustainable impact on improving the health and wellbeing of children and families.
Sandra has for many years been a lead in developing and delivering the DSL (Designated Safeguarding Lead) training that trains and supports all headteachers, senior leaders and other staff. She has been pivotal in expanding the remit of the safeguarding work to also include issues such as domestic abuse and sexual violence and harassment within the education context.
Sandra passion for improving the lives of children has lead her to develop work within Public Health and managed RCT (Randomised Control Trials) on the effectiveness of interventions such as the daily mile. She is also working with colleagues both locally and nationally to reduce health inequalities in children both in early years and primary schools. Additionally Sandra has written books for teachers and pupils as well as peer reviewed academic journal papers.
Adviser, Services For Education
Jo Perrin taught PSHE in schools for over a decade and held the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead and pastoral lead. She currently works as an Education Adviser for Services For Education which allows her to combine her experience in schools with a personal knowledge of child protection and childhood trauma as a foster carer.
In addition, Jo worked as a West Midlands’ Adviser for a national PSHE resource, has delivered a presentation to the Sex Education Forum National Members’ Event and has created a variety of RSE resources as part of her role for Services For Education.
Jo’s advisory experience is not limited to training school staff as she works with non-education based organisations to support them in safeguarding and emotional health and well-being aims and is an affiliated trainer for Mental Health At Work.
Adviser, Services For Education
Over a career spanning 20 years, Tricia has been involved in primary Education in a variety of contexts – as a teacher; senior leader; headteacher (within an LEA and within an Academy) and teacher educator. She is an experienced, successful headteacher, having led two schools since 2010.
For three years Tricia was Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Wolverhampton. In this role she was Module leader for English and Lead Tutor for the PGCE. Tricia is part of our School improvement team and is a tutor on the SFE primary initial teacher training programme.
She is the Lead English Adviser and co-leads on our curriculum development programme. Another key part of her most recent work has been embedding an understanding of cognitive theory into CPD, and ensuring this is the basis of work going forward.
Designated Safeguarding Lead and pastoral lead. She currently works as an Education Adviser for Services For Education which allows her to combine her experience in schools with a personal knowledge of childhood trauma as a former foster carer.
