KCSIE 2025 Sub-Hub

Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) is the statutory safeguarding guidance for schools and colleges in England. The 2025 edition keeps the strong focus on online safety, child-on-child abuse, mental health, and the responsibilities of every adult on site. It also strengthens expectations around filtering and monitoring, AI-related risks, and the consistent application of mobile phone policies.

This sub-hub is a working companion to the document itself. It does not replace reading KCSIE 2025 — Part One remains mandatory reading for staff who work directly with children. What it does instead is take the parts of the guidance that staff, DSLs, governors, and senior leaders most often ask about, and put them into calm, practical language. Each entry is intended to be skimmable in five minutes and useful as a prompt for the work itself.

Who is it for? Designated Safeguarding Leads and their deputies will find the DSL checklist, the safeguarding evidence folder, and the child-on-child abuse response framework most useful. Governors and trustees can use the strategic oversight checklist to structure their termly meeting with the DSL. Senior leaders can pick up the filtering and monitoring standards, the mobile phone policy guide, and the AI tools starter. Every member of teaching and support staff can use the plain-English summary and the staff quiz as part of induction or annual update training.

How to use it. Browse the cards below by audience. Each entry opens to a longer page with an overview, key points, practical steps, a checklist where relevant, warnings to avoid common mistakes, frequently asked questions, and links to the original UK statutory guidance and trusted partners. Where it adds value, entries point back to other items in this hub — for example, the governor checklist links across to filtering and monitoring, and the INSET outline pairs with the staff quiz.

What it is not. This is educational support material. It is not Ofsted-recognised inspection guidance, it is not legal advice, and it does not replace your school's own policies or your local safeguarding partnership's thresholds and procedures. The DfE guidance itself is the authoritative source — we link to it on every page.

All entries on this hub were reviewed against KCSIE 2025 in May 2026 and are due for review again at the start of the autumn term. If anything you read here looks out of step with the current statutory position, the statutory position wins — and we would be grateful to be told.