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Student Radar Help

Help for DSLs and the safeguarding team

The DSL Action Board, on-call cover, chronology, record transfer, multi-agency work and oversight.

  • Manage cases on the DSL Action Board: The DSL Action Board shows every open safeguarding case you can see in one place: which cases need a decision today, who owns each one and when it’s next reviewed. Use it to keep cases moving from…
  • Review a new concern: promote or dismiss it: New safeguarding information reaches the DSL Action Board in several ways. A concern raised by a member of staff becomes a case straight away. Worry box reports, medical review prompts and…
  • Set up DSL on-call cover and respond to alerts: When a member of staff asks for help through In-School Support, the request appears on On-Call & Alerts. Here the safeguarding team, leaders and the school office can see who is waiting for help,…
  • Search the safeguarding chronology: The safeguarding chronology lists every safeguarding event across the school in date order: concerns, disclosures, actions, meetings, communications, reviews and DSL decisions. Use it to trace the…
  • Send a safeguarding file to a new school: When a pupil with a child protection file leaves your school, the file has to go to their new school or setting. In England, Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE) expects the designated…
  • Accept a safeguarding file from another school: When a pupil joins you from another school that uses Student Radar, their previous school can send the child protection file to you through Record Transfer. The file waits on your Inbound tab…
  • Create a multi-agency plan: When a child has support from other agencies, such as a Family Help plan, a Child in Need plan or a child protection plan, Multi-Agency keeps your school’s record of it in one place: who leads,…
  • Schedule and run a TAC or TAF meeting: A Team Around the Child (TAC) or Team Around the Family (TAF) meeting brings school, the family and other agencies together to agree how to support a child. TAC/TAF Scheduling lets you plan the…
  • Read safeguarding analytics: Safeguarding Metrics turns your school’s safeguarding records into figures for oversight: how many cases are open, whether reviews are on time, how quickly the team responds, and what kinds of…
  • Build a safeguarding report: Safeguarding Reports turns your safeguarding figures into a report you can review and share: a termly pack for governors, a monthly assurance pack for the DSL and headteacher, a record quality…
  • Complete the annual safeguarding audit: Safeguarding Audit is your school’s annual self-audit of its safeguarding arrangements under section 175 or section 157 of the Education Act 2002, set against Keeping children safe in education…