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Calculators and templates for designated safeguarding leads, school leaders and teachers in England. Free, with no sign-up. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.
Calculators
Attendance calculatorA pupil’s attendance and absence, and whether they’re persistently or severely absent.Open the calculatorTeacher pay calculatorSalary for any point on the 2026/27 pay ranges, in any pay area, full time or part time.Open the calculatorDSL training datesWhen a designated safeguarding lead’s full training and yearly refresh are due.Open the calculatorChild protection file retentionThe date a child protection file can be reviewed for deletion.Open the calculator
Templates
Guides
Child in need and child protectionEarly help, Family Help, section 17 (child in need) and section 47 (child protection) of the Children Act 1989 explained for schools in England, with the threshold for each and what the school does at each level.Read the guideHow to become a DSLThe route to becoming a designated safeguarding lead (DSL) in a school in England, what the role needs, the training, and why deputy DSL is the usual step, from Keeping children safe in education 2026.Read the guideHow to record a safeguarding concernHow school staff in England should write down a safeguarding concern or a disclosure, including the facts, the child's own words, the date and time, signing it and passing it to the DSL straight away, from Keeping children safe in education 2026 and NSPCC guidance.Read the guideLow-level concerns about staffThe KCSIE 2026 definition of a low-level concern, how schools should share, record and respond to them, and when a concern meets the harm threshold and goes to the LADO.Read the guidePersistent and severe absenceThe DfE definitions of persistent absence (10% or more) and severe absence (50% or more), how absence links to safeguarding and children missing education, and what schools in England must do under Working together to improve school attendance.Read the guideThe single central recordWho must be on a school's single central record, the checks and dates it must show under KCSIE 2026 Part three, what you can add, and the gaps to look for.Read the guideWhat is a designated safeguarding lead?What a designated safeguarding lead does in a school in England, who can be one, deputies, training every two years, the annual refresh and being available, from Keeping children safe in education 2026.Read the guideWhat to include in a safeguarding chronologyWhat a safeguarding chronology is for, what to put in it, what to leave out and how schools and other agencies use it, from local safeguarding partnership guidance, Working together 2026 and Keeping children safe in education 2026.Read the guide