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<p>On 3 April the Department for Education published updated statutory guidance on
safeguarding, ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education'. On the same day, we emailed all
headteachers a letter from the Secretary of State drawing their attention to the guidance.
We will be publishing this on the website in due course.</p><p>The letter was emailed
to 31,660 addressees in 25,035 schools. As of 30 April, 13,285 (43.1%) recipients
had opened the email, and 9,402 (30.5%) recipients had clicked through to the guidance
on safeguarding.</p><p>Other records show that the guidance has been seen by a greater
number of people. Between 3 and 29 April the web page hosting the guidance received
65,729 page views. The Department also published 5 tweets in support of the publication.
These achieved a total reach of 639,315, and the embedded links were clicked 755 times.</p><p>The
guidance will also be highlighted in the summer term 2014 schools' email and Need
to Know timelines that will be sent to all schools in May. Schools can also access
relevant information through social media, and messages from the Education Funding
Agency and the National College for Teaching and Leadership. The Department also sends
regular emails to all local authorities.</p><p>Officials have also promoted the guidance
through various stakeholder groups that work with the Department, including the Headteacher
Reference Groups and the Education Forum; members of the latter include chairs of
local safeguarding children boards. And they have written to head and teacher unions
who met Ministers in January to discuss female genital mutilation and broader safeguarding
issues.</p>
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