Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025
n 7 July 2025, we published Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE) 2025 (for information version). This version will come into force on 1 September 2025 and will include links to the recently published revised guidance on Relationships, Sex, and Health Education.
KCSIE has been revised regularly for many years, and we intend that it will continue to be revised and improved on a regular basis. Whilst there are only technical changes to KCSIE 2025, future iterations will reflect the progress into legislation of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, the emerging further learnings from the work of the recent Baroness Casey Audit and subsequent enquiries, the Violence Against Women and Girls strategy and the interactions between these advances.
This Government is clear that there are – and will continue to be – further learnings about how we can better protect children in the future as we come to understand more clearly what has gone wrong in the past and schools and colleges will continue to need to play an incredibly important role in this.