Teachers and other school staff play a very important role in keeping children safe.

Schools should:

• Create safe environments for children and young people through robust safeguarding practices
• Create environments in which children are confident to share problems
• Ensure adults who are in contact with children in schools don’t pose a risk
• Make sure staff are suitably trained and know how to appropriately respond to concerns
• Children are taught about staying safe

It is important that schools are able to evaluate their current practices, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.

What is an audit?

An audit is a tool to assess internal controls, processes, compliance, and the protection of assets. The audit is performed by individuals within the school.

Audit reports are able to be produced for leadership and governors/ trustees. The SchooliP audit module is just one of many features available. SchooliP is a single platform that makes it easy and cost-effective to manage every aspect of school improvement, from staff to trust, from professional development to sustainability.

Why run an audit?

The internal audit process can be a helpful tool for schools to evaluate risk and identify actionable ways to improve performance.It is is an excellent method of benchmarking current practices, as well as identifying areas that require improvement. Audits can take place at any point during the academic year and feed into your whole school improvement plan.

Safeguarding Audits

Did you know that by using SchooliP you can keep on top of your safeguarding?

The audit breaks down into 15 sections covering various sections including policies and procedures.

Along with answering the question you can also attach evidence to support your response. The audit can then be shared with all stakeholders within the school including governors.

If required you can also link the audit to your school priorities and improvement plan. The improvement plan module in SchooliP allows you to define objectives and actions to key staff members.

If you are complying with the NSPCC - Safeguarding in Education then this can also be saved and managed with SchooliP.

SchooliP can support many types of audits along with the ability for you to create your own.

The audit module is just one of many features available in SchooliP. SchooliP is a single platform that makes it easy and cost-effective to manage every aspect of school improvement, from staff to trust, from professional development to sustainability.

School improvement relies on self-evaluation and reflection, which feeds into improvement planning. The plans are delivered most effectively by professionally developed and nurtured staff.

SchooliP is built by a team that have been creating software for education for many years and it is also supported by a hugely experienced team of educationalists that can provide you with advice and guidance from the hundreds of School Improvement processes they have implemented with SchooliP.