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Safeguard / Safeguarding Assurance

Give leaders assurance without exposing the children behind the figures

Bring trends, reports and audit checks together with permission-aware, appropriately aggregated evidence for oversight.

Student Radar supports authorised safeguarding practice. It does not replace the DSL, local procedures or professional judgement.

Safeguarding Assurance in action. Bring trends, reports and audit checks together with permission-aware, appropriately aggregated evidence for oversight.

The working surface

What it does

Metrics give leaders coverage, freshness, overdue reviews and record-quality counts, so assurance questions are answered in aggregate.

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Analytics

See safeguarding patterns at an appropriately aggregated level without exposing case detail beyond authorised roles.

Part of the Safeguarding Assurance workflow

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Reports

Produce permission-aware safeguarding reports from live casework rather than reconstructing them outside the system.

Part of the Safeguarding Assurance workflow

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Safeguarding Audit

Review completeness, timeliness and assurance evidence while keeping DSL judgement at the centre.

Part of the Safeguarding Assurance workflow

Limits made explicit

What it deliberately does not do

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Coverage of recorded data is not completeness. The metrics describe what was recorded, not everything that happened.

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Aggregates do not determine thresholds. What counts as too many, too old or too slow is the school's judgement.

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Oversight does not open case detail by right. Permission still governs who reads what.

Evidence in context

Assurance in aggregate

Leaders see the shape of the safeguarding work: how much, how fresh, how overdue, without the record opening beneath them.

  • Coverage and freshness in aggregate
  • Overdue reviews counted
  • Record-quality counts without case detail

The value of a connected school

Each concern has a wider context.

Relevant records help authorised safeguarding staff build the chronology, ask questions and record their own decisions.

Follow a connection to see what it makes possible

Relevant context, with access set by each staff member’s role and responsibilities. Staff decide the response.

  1. First aid + Safeguard

    Review the incident in the pupil’s chronology

    First aid records preserve what happened, the care given and the follow-up. Authorised safeguarding staff can consider relevant health context when reviewing a concern.

    Explore first aid
  2. Attendance + Safeguard

    Check changes across the school week

    Attendance patterns give staff another line of enquiry around a concern. They support a conversation and a review; the safeguarding decision remains with the responsible staff.

    Explore attendance
  3. SEND + Safeguard

    Keep the pupil’s communication needs in mind

    Relevant pupil plans and agreed strategies help authorised staff prepare for a conversation, involve the right colleagues and record what the pupil says.

    Explore SEND

Ask to see safeguarding assurance in the Demo School

The metrics view, in aggregate.