Promoting Safe and Supportive Schools

Commissioned support and free resources for a safer educational experience

About our services
Education Safeguarding Services is a limited company which provides valuable support and advice, along with a range of free resources, to education settings. Our commissioned services are designed to ensure that educational institutions have the necessary safeguarding measures in place to protect their students and staff. Whether you require consultation, supervision, training, reviews, audits or management investigations we are committed to promoting a safe and secure learning environment for all. Our consultants have professional indemnity insurance for coaching, training and education.

Team

Claire Ray

Independent Safeguarding Consultant

Claire Ray has spent over 20 years specialising in education safeguarding, managing Kent County Council’s Education Safeguarding Team for the past 8 years. She has also held various statutory child protection roles, including working as a LADO. Claire qualified as a social worker in 1999 before completing an MSc and Advanced Award in Social Work in 2005.

Robin Brivio

Independent Safeguarding Consultant

Robin is a qualified social worker working in a variety of roles in his 25 year career including front line social work with children as a practitioner and as a senior manager. He has also worked as the Local Authority Designated Officer and for the last 6 years worked for Kent County Council spearheading their own Education Safeguarding team before he left in late 2024 to set up his own venture.

What we can offer
Discover the comprehensive support and resources available at Education Safeguarding Services. The service is committed to providing valuable assistance and advice and resources for educational institutions from Early Years through to College. ESS are especially keen to offer supervision for those in the DSL role incorporating ongoing advice and support. ESS feel they can offer this from a unique perspective having been working with schools for a number of years via training, audits and reviews. Robin and Claire are social workers having worked front line child protection so understand thresholds for statutory intervention.

Services

Advice and Support over the phone

ESS have put an offer together that enables settings to be able to call a consultant with non-urgent safeguarding concerns. Three different packages will give you access to a set number of calls you can use throughout the academic year. Click below for further details.

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Safeguarding Training

ESS offer several different types of training for settings. Including basic safeguarding awareness for settings and Designated Safeguarding lead training. LGBTQ+, Gender Identity & Transition, Harmful Sexual Behaviour, Incel and the Manosphere half days. This can be delivered face to face or via Microsoft Teams.

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Safeguarding Reviews

The purpose of the safeguarding review from ESS is to assist the safeguarding team in all settings (DSL, Headteacher and Safeguarding Governor) to ensure that they support effective safeguarding practice. It has been updated to reflect the needs of settings in 2025.

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Safeguarding Supervision Packages

Get tailored advice and support designed to meet the unique needs of your educational institution.

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Management and Complaint Investigations

Occasionally settings need to source an independent person to carry out an investigation. ESS have extensive experience of doing such pieces of work for early years settings, schools and colleges.

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Free Educational Resources

Access a library of free resources, including articles, plans, tools and website links. All content is from third party organisations.

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Testimonials

 I remember your Education course and how fantastic it was. It started my journey in safeguarding and I will be forever grateful for your expertise. 

School
Anon
     

 Being able to speak to an advisor is just priceless as far as I'm concerned, because there have been a couple of boroughs and counties where I've spent kind of an hour trying to work out who? what? where? 

School
DSL
     

 Thank you very much for coming in yesterday to conduct our review. We're grateful for the time and effort you've taken and we felt the experience was a very constructive one. The staff you met spoke very positively about the discussions and how helpful they were, and the observations and insights you provided me on the day were very valuable. 

School
DSL
     

Contact


 contact@educationsafeguardingservices.co.uk

  • Registered Offices: 1-3 Warren Ct Park Rd, Crowborough TN6 2QX, United Kingdom
  • Education Safeguarding Services LTD Company Reg Number (16258193)
  •  Mon-Fri - 08:00-19:00