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<p>Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility.
Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance is clear that schools and colleges should
have in place robust systems for the safeguarding and protection of children. Staff
should be alert to changes in children’s behaviour, which could indicate there is
a safeguarding risk and they may be in need of help or protection. If staff have concerns
about a child’s welfare, they should act immediately, following their own organisation’s
child protection policy and taking advice from the designated safeguarding lead.</p><p>All
schools must offer a broad and balanced curriculum, which promotes the spiritual,
moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the
opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life. Citizenship in the
curriculum teaches pupils how to explore political and social issues critically, to
weigh evidence, debate and to make reasoned arguments.</p><p>From September 2020,
relationships education for all primary aged pupils and relationships and sex education
for all secondary aged pupils will be compulsory. Health education will also be compulsory
for all state funded pupils. The subjects are designed to equip young people for adult
life and focus, for example, on building positive relationships, developing physical
and mental health, identifying risks and knowing how to seek help when needed.</p>
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