Keeping children safe in education: 2026 proposed revisions
Overview
The Department for Education is seeking your views on proposed changes to the statutory guidance Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE).
We're seeking views on a range of updates to ensure the guidance remains current and relevant.
Why your views matter
Our aim is to help schools and colleges better understand what they are legally required to do, as well as what we strongly advise to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Audiences
- Anyone from any background
Interests
- Academies
- Academy sponsorship
- Accommodation (Looked after children)
- Accountability
- Admissions
- Adoption
- Adult social care
- Adult social work
- Advocacy (Looked after children)
- All
- Alternative provision
- Apprenticeships
- Attendance and absence
- Behaviour and discipline
- Capital funding
- Care leavers and former looked-after children
- Careers guidance
- Community learning
- Converting to an academy
- Disabled children
- Early learning and childcare
- Early years foundation stage
- Education
- Equality
- Establishing maintained schools
- Film Industry and skills
- Financial management
- Financial support (Looked after children)
- Fostering
- Free Schools, studio schools and University technical colleges
- Friends and family care
- GCE AS and A level subject content
- GCSE subject content
- Governance
- HE
- Health and wellbeing
- Health and wellbeing (Looked after children)
- Intervention
- Keeping children safe in education and other settings
- Key stage 1
- Key stage 2
- Lifelong learning
- National Curriculum
- Participation of young people in education, employment and training
- Pay, conditions and pensions
- Performance tables
- Planning
- Post 16 Qualifications
- Post-16 funding
- Preventing neglect, abuse and exploitation
- Primary assessment
- Procurement for schools
- Programmes and initiatives (Looked after children)
- Pupil data
- Pupil place planning
- Raising the participation age
- Recruitment
- Safeguarding disabled children
- School and academy funding
- School building estates
- School funding reform
- SEND code of practice
- Setting up an academy or free school
- Sex and relationships education
- Short break care
- Social care standards and guidance
- Social workers' standards
- Special guardianship
- Statutory policies and guidance
- Sufficiency
- Support in education
- Teacher assessment
- Teachers' standards
- Teaching and learning (SEND)
- Training and development
- Travel to school and colleges
- Work based training
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