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Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE): September 2025 changes

KCSIE has been published for the 2025/26 academic year. Understand the changes and what your next steps should be.

Last reviewed on 1 September 2025See updates
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Contents
  1. Part 1: safeguarding information for all staff
  2. Part 2: the management of safeguarding 
  3. Part 3: safer recruitment
  4. Part 4: safeguarding concerns or allegations made about staff
  5. Part 5: child-on-child sexual violence and sexual harassment
  6. Annex A: safeguarding information for school and college staff
  7. Annex B: further information 
  8. Annex C: role of the designated safeguarding lead (DSL)
  9. Next steps 

The DfE has published its final version of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) for September 2025. It came into force on 1 September 2025. 

Please note: this article only summarises the changes between KCSIE 2024 and 2025. For a summary of the whole KCSIE 2025 document, see our other article. 

The changes this year are mainly technical, for example, providing updated links and resources.

Part 1: safeguarding information for all staff

All staff working directly with children are expected to read at least part 1 of KCSIE (those who don’t work directly with children can read the condensed version of part 1, in annex A). 

There are no changes to part 1 of KCSIE for 2025.

Part 2: the management of safeguarding 

The DfE expects to publish revised guidance on gender questioning children, but doesn't have an exact date (it previously expected to publish this in