SAFE Associate – Holly Goodwin
Holly is an experienced Designated Safeguarding Lead with twenty years of teaching experience in UK schools, and five years in a Senior Leadership position. She has led safeguarding teams covering all key stages from 3 years to 19 years, in junior, senior and sixth form settings. Most recently, Holly has worked as a DSL, Head of Pastoral Care and Head of Boarding with international boarding students in an independent school setting.
Holly has trained school staff on a wide range of safeguarding in education matters including regulatory updates to Keeping Children Safe in Education, Peer on Peer abuse, Domestic Abuse, Child Criminal/ Sexual Exploitation and Harmful Sexual Behaviour. In addition, she has written policies for schools including Staff Codes of Conduct, Safeguarding Policies and Peer on Peer abuse policies, and trained school staff on their implementation.
Holly has completed Level 3 safeguarding training and is about to begin an MA in Advanced Child Protection at the University of Kent. She is trained in DSL supervision and has recently completed a Suicide First Aid course.