The seminar will provide an essential update into the current legal and regulatory landscape, including assessing the role of the DSL and Ofsted’s inspection of safeguarding arrangements. It will also explore how the pandemic has increased safeguarding and welfare risks, and look at what schools can do to support and protect their pupils under growing day-to-day pressures. With the definition of safeguarding being expanded in the Government’s Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020, the seminar will also explore mental health as a key safeguarding priority for schools, and will provide expert guidance for understanding, identifying and taking action when mental health is a safeguarding concern.