This seminar will discuss current safeguarding and wellbeing challenges facing staff, including emotional load, competing demands, and the impact of sustained pressure.
Learn how staff wellbeing and work life balance directly influence safeguarding practice, professional curiosity, and decision making, as well as practical, realistic ways leaders and staff can support one another, including boundaries, supervision, and everyday protective practices, creating a culture where safeguarding is shared, sustainable, and supportive, rather than reactive or overwhelming.

Target audience: SENCO’s / Leaders, Practitioners / Support staff

Target Key Stage: All Key Stages

Settings Targeted: Nursery / pre-school / childminder, School, Alternative provision, FE / Higher education, All
SEND Focus: N/A
Related Policy: KCSIE 2025 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 
Audience Stage: Level 1-3
Learning outcomes: 

• Recognise the key safeguarding and wellbeing pressures facing staff in mainstream education and understand how sustained workload, emotional demand, and work life balance can impact safeguarding practice.
• Apply practical, realistic strategies to support staff wellbeing and resilience, including approaches that promote healthy boundaries, shared responsibility, and effective support without increasing workload.
• Contribute to a whole setting culture where safeguarding is understood as a collective, sustainable responsibility, supporting both staff wellbeing and positive safeguarding outcomes.