February 2026 SSS e-bulletin
Articles
Duty of Care in Everyday Practice
Explore duty of care in everyday practice, highlighting shared responsibility, proactive safeguarding, and reducing risk across school roles.
28th January 2026
Mobile Phone Ban in Schools
Explore UK guidance on mobile phone bans in schools, including safeguarding implications, policies, SEND considerations and practical enforcement approaches.
26th January 2026
Sleep & Children's Wellbeing
Explore how sleep supports children’s wellbeing, learning and behaviour, and why poor sleep can impact emotional health, resilience and classroom outcomes.
19th January 2026
Hazing
Hazing is a hidden safeguarding risk involving coercion, humiliation and harm. Learn how to recognise signs, risks and protect young people effectively.
14th January 2026
Tracking & Managing Safeguarding Concerns
Learn how to track and manage safeguarding concerns effectively, ensuring early identification, clear recording, and timely action to protect children.
12th January 2026
Podcasts
Freedom from Violence and Abuse
Explore the government’s new Violence Against Women and Girls strategy and what it means in practice. This episode examines ambition versus delivery, the challenges of prevention, online harms and funding, and asks whether this marks real change or another missed opportunity in safeguarding.
25th January 2026
AI, Deepfakes and Safeguarding
Explore how AI and deepfake technology are reshaping safeguarding risks in schools. This episode unpacks new KCSIE guidance, the realities of AI-generated abuse, and why these harms must be treated as serious child protection concerns—highlighting the role of professional curiosity, early action and pupil-centred responses.
18th January 2026
Sara Sharif - a life surrounded by risk
Explore the tragic case of Sara Sharif and the missed opportunities that allowed risk to persist over years. This episode examines how patterns of abuse, system gaps and reduced oversight left a child invisible in plain sight—highlighting the critical importance of professional curiosity, consistency and truly seeing risk in safeguarding practice.
14th January 2026
SSS Learning