Professional development
What matters in safeguarding is not the tick-box completion of training, but a learning journey that results in behaviour change making people safer. Our training and development opportunities will support you to ensure that safeguarding development and culture change is embedded and nurtured.
Safeguarding training
We can provide bespoke training focussing on the development of particular areas of your safeguarding culture, designed to suit you.
Please do get in touch to discuss what your organisation needs.
Do you want to develop as a leader of safeguarding? We offer a series of coaching sessions to help you improve your practice and therefore better lead safeguarding in your organisation.
- Safer recruitment
- Harmful sexual behaviours
- Domestic abuse
- Annual or biannual update training
- Safeguarding reporting & recording
- Intro to trauma informed & shame sensitive practice
- Other aspects of safeguarding
We also offer a range of online live and online self-paced professional development through Debbie Innes Safeguarding Academy.
Debbie Innes Safeguarding Academy
Our professional development through Debbie Innes Safeguarding Academy goes into significantly greater depth, drawing on case studies to support learning that really does apply to practice. The use of case studies means that you and your staff are more likely to remember and use what you have learnt.
We provide a free introductory Starter Classes so that you can get ahead of the curve and better your understanding. This can help you to decide what you or your organisation needs.
Through our academy we offer:
- Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) online training - self-paced
- DSL live online training at various times during the year
- Advanced DSL training - a year long programme
- Behaviour lead training - launching January 2026
- Regular online webinars
Starter class recordings
See Debbie delivering starter classes in the videos below. more videos will be made available on the Youtube channel and here on this site in the future.
Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
Upcoming dates
Please do get in touch if you would like bespoke training in Safeguarding.
Risk in Safeguarding - coming soon
Racism, Misogyny & Safeguarding - 17th November 2025
DSL Update Training - 27th November 2025
Advanced Designated Safeguarding Lead - Starting January 2026
Audit & policy
Knowing what you are doing is essential to your organisations ongoing safeguarding development - safeguarding audit fulfils this function. Policy and procedure provide the foundation and scaffolding to support your safeguarding culture.
Executive Head & Head of Inclusion
Multi-Academy Trust
Featured resources
We offer a variety of resources including a policy bank and a school safeguarding audit.
These and more can be found on our resources page. Below is a selection of introductory guides and links to online training & webinars to get you started.
The Rise of Virtual Childhood - free webinar
Introduction to trauma informed/shame sensitive practice
