Safeguarding for governance
Help your school meet its requirements to provide safeguarding training for governors with this interactive course and assessment. Governors will learn fundamental safeguarding principles, including how to monitor safeguarding.
Who it's for
All governors/trustees
Now updated to reflect the 2025 Ofsted framework
If you start this course after 29 October 2025, you'll see a version with up to date information on how Ofsted inspectors will evaluate safeguarding in your school(s). If you've already started this course, the Ofsted section won't have been updated, but you can still complete the course and receive your certificate.
Please note:
If you have membership for both The Key Safeguarding and GovernorHub Knowledge, you can access this course on either site.
Governors’ training records will show on the site they took the training on, so if some governors are missing from the training records, please check the other site.
We apologise for any inconvenience this causes you.
Make sure you're meeting the expectation for your governors to have safeguarding training with this course, created for GovernorHub.
This course covers:
- What safeguarding means
- A whole-school approach to safeguarding
- Key safeguarding legislation and guidance
- Your role and responsibilities
- How safeguarding concerns are managed and monitored
There's also an assessment at the end to assess understanding of the key points.
This is our safeguarding induction course
This course is for governors/trustees who are new to governance or need a more in-depth reminder of safeguarding and their role within it.
If you have governors/trustees who just need a refresh of the key aspects of safeguarding and to find out about this year's KCSIE changes, take a look at our Safeguarding for governance: refresher course. It will take around 50 to 60 minutes to complete.