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20 November 2025

16 Days of Action – the campaign to end gender-based violence

Hosting a range of events to help bring together communities, shine a light on support available, and to campaign to end all violence against women and girls.

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20 November 2025

This year’s SaFest has unfortunately been postponed to 2026

Due to lots of unforeseen circumstances, SaFest 2025 has had to be postponed until 2026. The new dates are Monday 9 – Friday 13 February 2026.

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10 November 2025

Join the Department of Education’s upcoming consultation events

DfE are running focused consultation events in preparation for a proposed update to the Working Together to Safeguard Children publication.

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29 September 2025

Multi-Agency Action Learning Sets

Each learning set aims to improve collaborative skills, co-production and understanding in safeguarding context to support your work as a practitioner.

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12 September 2025

SaFest 2025 – book your place now!

SaFest 2025 will be taking place from 24-28 November. Our annual week-long virtual safeguarding festival is fully funded – and anyone is welcome to attend!

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14 August 2025

Free webinar on Children and Hoarding

What happens when hoarding exists behind closed doors — and a child is growing up in the midst of it? What might we be missing?

29 July 2025

Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE) 2025 Guidance Update

The latest guidance was released earlier this month, and further advice about the changes is available.

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3 July 2025

Training Bulletin July 2025

Here’s a selection of the key training opportunities, courses and workshops coming up over the next few months.

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3 March 2025

Join our Stop It Now events this spring

Throughout March and April 2025, we are collaborating on a local Stop It Now campaign to deter online child sexual abuse.


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