Template 3: Checklist for Review of the Child Safeguarding Statement
The Child Protection Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools 2017 require the Board of Management must undertake a review of its Child Safeguarding Statement and that the following checklist shall be used for this purpose. The review must be completed every year or as soon as practicable after there has been a material change in any matter to which the Child Safeguarding Statement refers. Undertaking an annual review will also ensure that a school also meets its statutory obligation under section 11(8) of the Children First Act 2015, to review its Child Safeguarding Statement every two years.
The checklist is designed as an aid to conducting this review and is not intended as an exhaustive list of the issues to be considered. Individual Boards of Management shall include other items in the checklist that are of relevance to the school in question.
As part of the overall review process, Boards of Management should also assess relevant school policies,procedures, practices and activities vis a vis their adherence to the principles of best practice in child protection and welfare as set out in the school's Child Safeguarding Statement the Children First Act 2015 and the Child Protection Procedures for Primary and Post-Primary Schools 2017.
*ln schools where the ETB is the employer the responsibility for meeting the employer's requirements rests with
the ETB concerned. In such cases, this question should be completed following consultation with the ETB.
