Model job description and person specification
Download and adapt it to reflect the role in your school.
It's based on the requirements in the statutory safeguarding guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (which we look at in the next section).
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Every school should have a designated safeguarding lead (DSL), as set out in paragraph 8 of Keeping Children