Safeguarding Changes What's Confirmed & What's Coming

In this practical and informative webinar, safeguarding experts Shelley Armstrong and Yvonne Sinclair explore the latest safeguarding changes affecting early years settings and what they mean for your everyday practice. They break down key updates to safeguarding guidance and legislation into clear, manageable actions, covering areas including safer recruitment, DBS requirements, safer eating and sleeping, information sharing, allergy safety, digital safeguarding, recordkeeping, and Ofsted expectations. This session focuses on helping you understand what has changed, what is mandatory, and where best practice is evolving, so you can confidently review your policies, procedures, staff training, and day-to-day safeguarding arrangements. Ideal for early years practitioners, DSLs, managers, and nursery owners, this webinar provides practical guidance to help you stay informed, compliant, and prepared as safeguarding requirements continue to develop. What you’ll learn: • The key safeguarding changes affecting early years settings in 2026 • Updates to safer recruitment, DBS checks and staff responsibilities • What you need to know about safer eating, sleeping and allergy safety • New information-sharing duties and safeguarding legislation • How to strengthen digital safeguarding and recordkeeping • What Ofsted expects to see in your everyday safeguarding practice A must-watch for early years practitioners, DSLs, managers and nursery owners who want to stay up to date with safeguarding requirements and feel confident that their setting’s policies and everyday practice are compliant. --------------------------------------------------- Subscribe and hit the 🔔 to join important conversations and gain access to free early years industry advice and guidance --------------------------------------------------- Stay in touch! 📌Instagram:   / theparentagroup   📌Facebook:   / theparentagroup   📌LinkedIn:   / theparentagroup   📌Twitter: https://x.com/TheParentaGroup 📌TikTok: https://x.com/TheParentaGroup 📌Website: https://www.parenta.com 📌Email: hello@parenta.com 📌Phone: 0800 002 9242 --------------------------------------------------- 🕒 Timestamps 0:00 - Introduction 4:50 - EYFS safeguarding changes for 2026 10:13 - Safer recruitment and DBS requirements 12:51 - Safer sleep and first aid requirements 16:30 - Safer eating, choking and allergies 19:12 - Keeping Children Safe in Education updates 24:50 - Working Together to Safeguard Children changes 34:12 - New safeguarding legislation and mandatory reporting 38:48 - Statutory information-sharing duties 42:28 - Restrictive interventions and reasonable force 44:40 - Digital safeguarding, images and smart glasses 47:54 - Prevent and Martin’s Law 49:46 - Allergy safety requirements 51:30 - Safeguarding recordkeeping 55:23 - Ofsted safeguarding expectations 57:53 - Training and CPD resources --------------------------------------------------- Our monthly Parenta webinars are FREE to attend for all childcare professionals AND you receive a professional CPD certificate if you attend. Register for our next free webinar here – https://www.parenta.com/webinars --------------------------------------------------- About Parenta Parenta is an early years solutions provider that started back in 1999. Over the last 25+ years, we’ve developed comprehensive solutions to dynamic problems commonly experienced in the early years sector. Some of these solutions are: Government-funded childcare training provider https://www.parenta.com/our-childcare... Free recruitment services https://www.parenta.com/recruitment Nursery management software https://www.parenta.com/all-in-one-so... Childcare websites https://www.parenta.com/website-design Marketing solutions for childcare businesses https://www.paremta.com/marketing-sol... -------------------------------------------------- Free Resources Safeguarding in 2026 For Early Years Settings - https://bit.ly/4AeeDVE Setting Boundaries at Work in Childcare - https://bit.ly/4ixPMG1 KCSIE 2026: A Proven Path to Safer Recruitment - https://bit.ly/4dH6Bei