KCSIE 2026 Non-school AP and Independent School support
Specific support for AP or specialist settings.
We know you’re busy. We also know what it’s like to have to develop safeguarding training each year and review your policies every time new KCSIE training comes out.
Our latest packages have pulled together summaries to help you grow your expertise, training materials ready to deliver to staff and policy changes you can add to stay compliant - all based on the most recent KCSIE changes.
What the package includes:Specific Non-School AP or Independent School Content
The changes to KCSIE have been confirmed and should be in place in your AP or school from September 2026. We've put together both a non-school AP and registered setting specific sets of training materials, a summary to build your expertise and materials to help you review and change policies to keep them up to date.
We’ve pulled together a list of the changes and how they relate to both a non-school AP and a registered setting. Make sure you and your safeguarding leads know and understand the new KCSIE.
Build Your Confidence
The package includes information about the new KCSIE’s impact on your policies and example paragraphs you can use as inserts to make sure your policies remain compliant with the new changes.
Policy Review
Our training includes a ready to deliver powerpoint, a full script and staff sign off sheets and a quiz to check understanding. If you’d like to make your session more interactive we’ve also got a few ideas we’ve added to the pack.
Ready to Use Training
As well as KCSIE the DfE have recently released guidance around restraint which has implications for the way we work in AP and specialist settings and should be important as we review our policies. We’ve included information that pulls out the key elements of this guidance for either non-school AP or schools and looks at implications for our policies and practice.
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