Download our audit template
Use it to check that your safeguarding arrangements comply with statutory safeguarding guidance and requirements. We've designed it to be adapted for your context.
Our template for academies includes additional sections for you to audit trust-wide oversight as well as arrangements in individual academies:
Our templates are mainly based on Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 but they also draw on:
- Working together to safeguard children
- Prevent duty guidance
- Children missing education statutory guidance
- EYFS statutory framework
- Meeting digital and technology standards in schools and colleges
- Ofsted's state-funded schools inspection toolkit
If you’re looking to audit what staff and governors know and understand, you can find useful assessment tools and eLearning on The Key Safeguarding.
Most of Ofsted’s expectations under the 2026 State-funded Schools Inspection Toolkit are already covered in this audit – this