KCSIE 2026 Annual Update
What changed, and what you must do. A two-hour twilight for all staff in schools and colleges in England.
- Duration
- Two hours, twilight or an INSET slot
- Group size
- No cap on numbers. Built for whole-staff delivery
- Delivery
- In person at your site, or online live
- Included
- Handbook, evaluation and certificate
The annual update, built for whole-staff delivery with no cap on numbers. KCSIE 2026 withdrew the condensed Part one, so support staff now need the same briefing as the classroom.
Who it is for
- Every member of staff, teaching and support
- Including staff who do not work directly with children
- Governors, and trustees of multi-academy trusts
- Schools, sixth forms, colleges and alternative provision
What delegates will be able to do
Assessed learning outcomes, written as actions rather than as topics covered. They are the same list the delegate handbook opens with.
- Say which of this year's changes are law rather than statutory guidance
- Apply the regulated activity test to a volunteer in their own setting
- Say what the setting must obtain for a volunteer who is caught by the change, and by when
- Say what every member of staff now has to read, and what has been withdrawn
- Use the current terminology for images and for early help
- Name the person in their setting who owns each job on the action list
The programme
Taught in this order. Each section builds on the one before it.
- 01What changed, and why this one is different
- 02The change that is law: volunteers and regulated activity
- 03Part one, and the end of Annex A
- 04The new content you will meet this term
- 05What your setting must do by half term, and action planning
Why every member of staff, and not just the teaching team
KCSIE 2026 withdrew the condensed version of Part one. Staff who do not work directly with children are now expected to read Part one in full, in the same way as everybody else. In most settings that means the office, site, catering, transport and finance teams need the same briefing as the classroom.
A note on currency
Keeping children safe in education is revised annually and comes into force each 1 September. This session describes the 2026 version and is rebuilt each year against the current guidance. If you are reading this in a later academic year, ask us for the current one.
Who delivers it
The trainer holds a PGCE in post-compulsory education and eighteen years in further and higher education, and currently carries operational responsibility for a school of ten programmes and more than twenty staff, including health and safety for the building. They are Prevent trained, hold IOSH Leading Safely, and they built and maintain Blip's own safeguarding logging, incident and risk registers and its policy library of more than thirty documents. This is a briefing on statutory guidance and what it means for your staff, taught by somebody who runs those systems.
What you get back
Collected from the first delivery, not retrofitted when a tender asks.
- Pre and post knowledge check, used to evidence learning gain
- Anonymous delegate evaluation, results shared with the commissioner
- Optional written reflective assessment for CPD or revalidation evidence
- Attendance register and individual certificates
- Attendance records retained for six years
Fees
In-house delivery for your own team, at your site or online. Booked in house there is no per-delegate charge, so a whole-staff INSET slot costs the same as a small group. The open place is for one person who wants the update themselves, most often a designated safeguarding lead, and attending it does not discharge a setting's duty to brief all of its staff. Travel is included within Shropshire, Cheshire, Powys and the Wrexham and Oswestry area, and charged at cost beyond it.
In person, at your site
From £450
Delivered online live
From £450
Open course place
£45 per delegate
Every quote is specific. Cost depends on delegate numbers, location and whether you want the content adapted to your setting. Tell us what you need and we will quote properly rather than sending you a rate card.
Only one or two people to train? This course also runs as a scheduled open session online. See the dates.
What this course is not
- It is not designated safeguarding lead training, which schools should obtain from their local safeguarding partnership or a specialist provider.
- It is not the safer recruitment training that KCSIE expects at least one member of an appointment panel to hold: this session explains the regulated activity change so that your own safer recruitment lead can act on it.
- It is not legal advice, and it is not clinical advice about an individual child.
We are explicit about all of this with delegates on the third slide.
Common questions
How long is KCSIE 2026 Annual Update and how is it delivered?
Two hours, twilight or an INSET slot. No cap on numbers. Built for whole-staff delivery. In person at your site, or online live.
What does KCSIE 2026 Annual Update cost?
In person at your site, from £450. Delivered online live, from £450. An open course place is £45 per delegate. Booked in house there is no per-delegate charge, so a whole-staff INSET slot costs the same as a small group. The open place is for one person who wants the update themselves, most often a designated safeguarding lead, and attending it does not discharge a setting's duty to brief all of its staff. Travel is included within Shropshire, Cheshire, Powys and the Wrexham and Oswestry area, and charged at cost beyond it. Every quote is specific, because cost depends on delegate numbers, location and whether you want the content adapted to your setting.
Do delegates get a certificate?
Yes. Every delegate gets an individual certificate and there is an attendance register. A pre and post knowledge check evidences learning gain, and an optional written reflective assessment is available for CPD or revalidation evidence. Anonymous delegate evaluation results are shared with the commissioner, and attendance records are retained for six years.
Who delivers KCSIE 2026 Annual Update?
The trainer holds a PGCE in post-compulsory education and eighteen years in further and higher education, and currently carries operational responsibility for a school of ten programmes and more than twenty staff, including health and safety for the building. They are Prevent trained, hold IOSH Leading Safely, and they built and maintain Blip's own safeguarding logging, incident and risk registers and its policy library of more than thirty documents. This is a briefing on statutory guidance and what it means for your staff, taught by somebody who runs those systems.
Book this course for your team
Tell us the numbers and the term you have in mind, or email training@blip.org.uk. We reply within one working day.