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Dai Durbridge
Dai Durbridge is a partner in the education team at Browne Jacobson. He provides advice and training to teachers and other education professionals on relevant legal and practical issues. He has a particular focus on safeguarding issues, having written numerous articles on information sharing, handling allegations against staff, vetting and barring scheme and the GDPR.
Dai provides advice to schools and colleges on policy drafting, implementing procedures for the safeguarding of children and regarding admissions and exclusions.
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Dai Durbridge answers some common questions about the online recruitment checks guidance, describes the challenges and offers advice for carrying out the searches
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What is the legal situation if a pupil requests to change their name and pronouns at school without their parents' consent? Lawyer Dai Durbridge responds
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Conducting a data compliance check or learning walk can seem a daunting prospect for data protection officers. Dai Durbridge shares his top tips
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The ‘Everyone’s Invited’ movement has gathered thousands of testimonies of child-on-child sexual abuse, violence and harassment on its website. How is your school responding?
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Ensure that your safer recruitment policies and procedures are robust and compliant with statutory guidance by using this checklist from lawyer Dai Durbridge
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The DfE advised the use of a child protection policy COVID-19 annex to detail safeguarding arrangements during the pandemic. Dai Durbridge and Ella Savell-Boss provide an example and a quiz to share with staff and discuss issues arising
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Dai Durbridge provides a confirmation letter to detail that safer recruitment checks for staff attending your school from elsewhere have been carried out
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A subject access request can be made by anyone but sometimes information must be withheld. Dai Durbridge explains
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When a child goes missing from education, the consequences can be devastating. Which children are most at risk, what are the safeguarding implications and what should schools do?