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A trust-wide safeguarding posture inspectors could interrogate

How a primary-heavy trust brought safeguarding evidence into one place and gave its designated leads alerts they could act on.

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Client profile

A primary-heavy trust, scattered safeguarding tools

Example Federation Trust runs a mix of primary and infant schools. Each had its own filtering and monitoring, and the central safeguarding lead had no single view across the trust.

The challenge

No single view, slow to evidence

When inspectors or trustees asked about online safety, gathering the evidence meant chasing several systems. Alerts were noisy and inconsistent between schools.

“We could not answer a simple safeguarding question with one report. Now we can.”
A. Example, Designated Safeguarding Lead (Trust), Example Federation Trust
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The solution

One KCSIE-aligned platform

Filtering and monitoring consolidated onto a single, age-appropriate platform across every school.

A trust-wide dashboard

One dashboard for the central safeguarding lead, with consistent, actionable alerts.

Audit-ready evidence

An online safety log and audit trail that produces inspector-ready evidence on demand.

Scaled to the cohort

Controls tuned for KS1 and KS2, not a one-size policy.

The results

What changed

  • One safeguarding view across the whole trust
  • Actionable alerts that reduced noise for designated leads
  • Inspector-ready evidence available on demand
  • A consistent posture across every school
Safeguarding stopped being a scramble and became something we can simply show.A. Example, DSL (Trust) (illustrative)
Project phasing

How it ran

Scope

Audit

Reviewed safeguarding tooling across every school.

Design

One standard

Agreed a single KCSIE-aligned approach.

Deliver

Consolidation

Migrated schools onto one platform.

Refresh

Ongoing

Dashboard and alerts managed as a service.

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