E111. Strategic Safeguarding - Empowering Governors to Lead with Confidence

Governors play a critical role in shaping and monitoring safeguarding culture; it ensures safeguarding is not just a policy but a lived culture.

This webinar provides practical guidance on statutory responsibilities, effective governance, and proactive strategies to ensure learners and staff are protected. Learn how to challenge, support, and lead safeguarding at a strategic level.

What You’ll Learn:

• The Ofsted Further Education and Skills Inspection Toolkit and statutory guidance.


• The governor’s role in monitoring, challenging, and fostering a safeguarding culture.


• Key responsibilities around safer recruitment, allegations, and safeguarding concerns.


• How to differentiate safeguarding for children and adults, including Care Act considerations.


• How to lead confidently, ask the right questions, and champion safety across their organisation.


• Strategies for promoting inclusivity, wellbeing, and a zero-tolerance approach to harm.

Designed for Governors, trustees, and senior leaders in education and training settings who want to strengthen their safeguarding oversight and governance.

Led by Rachael Bishop

Rachael has over 18 years of experience within the safeguarding people field including child and adult Social Care, Statutory Education, Apprenticeships and Employability, Human Resources, Safeguarding and Employee Wellbeing Management, NHS, Mental Health Services, HM Prison Service, Police, Youth Offending and Substance Misuse Services and is the MD, Safeguarding Consultant & accredited trainer at RLB Safeguarding Ltd. Rachael also partners with organisations to provide a series of informative webinars and blogs including safer recruitment checking and vetting, Single Central Record services, Mental Health Culture Change programmes and leadership consultancy, acts on the advisory board for the National Association of Designated Safeguarding Leads and is a Board Governor for Fuel Learning Limited.