If you're a director, trustee, or part of a senior team, you carry a big responsibility when it comes to safeguarding. This course helps you understand exactly what strategic safeguarding means in practice. It focuses on how your decisions, systems and leadership shape the culture and safety of your organisation.
You will learn what’s expected of you by law, how to spot risks and how to make sure safeguarding isn’t just a policy, but is a necessary part of how your organisation works every day.
What is Strategic Safeguarding for Leaders?
Strategic Safeguarding for Leaders is about how senior people shape the safety and culture of their organisation. It looks at what safeguarding means at the leadership level, not just policies, but how decisions, values and systems affect people’s safety.
The course helps leaders understand their legal duties, assess risk, and make safeguarding part of everyday thinking. It’s about seeing the bigger picture and making sure your organisation doesn’t just meet requirements but does the right thing.
What Will I Learn on a Strategic Safeguarding Training Course for Leaders?
- Brief overview of safeguarding - definitions, categories, signs, and symptoms of abuse
- Understanding a safeguarding culture of vigilance
- Safeguarding Governance -statutory duties and responsibilities of Directors and Leaders - what risks should you be looking for?
- Awareness of Safeguarding policy and procedures (DSO role recording, etc.)
- Understanding and exploring the role and responsibilities of Directors and Leaders in terms of safeguarding and a safer culture
- Explore and evaluate your current level of safeguarding risk, how this is managed and reviewed
- Audit and review processes- what is safeguarding success?
- How to work with, support and challenge your management team to ensure your organisation is operating according to good safeguarding principles and practice
- Action plan – responding to current gaps and changes in safeguarding risks
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Gain a brief but essential overview of safeguarding, including definitions, categories, and signs and symptoms of abuse.
- Understand the safeguarding standards relevant to your organisation and sector.
- Examine your statutory duties and governance responsibilities as a leader, including the key risks to be aware of at the board and senior levels.
- Increase your awareness of safeguarding policies and procedures, including the Designated Safeguarding Officer (DSO) role and effective record-keeping.
- Explore how your leadership directly influences organisational safeguarding culture and what accountability looks like in practice.
- Learn how to audit and review safeguarding effectiveness: What does success look like, and how can it be measured?
- Understand how to support and challenge your management team to ensure safeguarding principles are consistently embedded across all levels of the organisation.
- Begin developing an action plan to address gaps and adapt to emerging safeguarding risks within your context
Who is the training for?
This training is for anyone responsible for leading, overseeing, or creating a safer culture within an organisation.
It’s aimed at people who set the tone from the top and are expected to make sure safeguarding is working in practice.
It’s especially useful for:
- Chief Executives (CEOs)
- Senior Leadership Teams
- Clinical Directors
- Directors
- HR Managers
- Heads of Safeguarding
- Anyone with strategic responsibility for safeguarding
How does this training support good practice?
It helps you look at safeguarding through a leadership lens. You will learn how to spot risks, support your team and check whether current systems are working.
You will also look at tools to strengthen your approach, ask the right questions and take action where needed.
Good safeguarding isn’t just about having a policy. It’s about making sure people feel safe and that your organisation knows what to do when something’s not right. This training helps you do that, clearly and confidently.
Strategic Safeguarding for Leaders is not just about compliance; it’s about driving cultural change and building resilience into your organisation’s core.
This course gives you practical knowledge and clear steps to make safeguarding part of your leadership, planning, and daily work. You will leave knowing what’s expected of you and how to lead with confidence.
How Long Is the Training?
The training runs from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
It’s a focused, half-day session designed to respect your time while covering what matters.
The session is interactive and engaging. We use discussion, real examples and reflection to help you connect learning to your own role. You won’t just sit and listen; you’ll be part of the conversation.
How to book this course
To book this course, please click on the preferred course date and pay by card. Or speak to a friendly member of our team to arrange this.
Please contact us if you have any questions regarding the Strategic Safeguarding for Leaders Training Course.