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Trainee teachers don’t understand safeguarding role, says Ofsted

Inspectors find that trainees are unclear about their safeguarding responsibilities toward children.

Trainee teachers are not being made fully aware of their future role in safeguarding children, Ofsted warned today.

Understanding safeguarding was one of the areas for improvement flagged up from the first stage inspections of initial teacher education this summer, Angela Milner, Ofsted’s specialist HMI for initial teacher education, told a conference this week.

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