Safeguarding guidance is clear that it is everyone’s responsibility. Yet in many schools, the greatest time, training, and professional dialogue around safeguarding sits with teaching staff, despite the daily presence of HR, admissions, marketing, operations, security, canteen, cleaning, and administrative professionals on site. Using safer recruitment as a case study, this workshop supports DSLs to move safeguarding conversations with non-teaching staff beyond compliance and towards shared understanding of why safeguarding matters, enabling greater nuance, professional judgement, and safer decision-making.
Presenter
Hayley Trenchard is Director of Safeguarding & Continuous Improvement at XCL Education Malaysia. UK-trained in safeguarding and child protection, she specialises in translating UK and international safeguarding frameworks into practical, culturally relevant practice for Malaysia and Southeast Asia. She works closely with non-teaching and HR teams to implement BISSC-aligned safer recruitment, including ensuring the Single Central Record is used as a safeguarding tool for professional judgement and oversight, not simply a compliance checklist. Hayley has worked with Australian universities, British training institutes, and UN agencies including UNICEF, supporting organisations to apply global best practice confidently within their own legal, cultural, and professional contexts.
