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E very school wants to keep its children safe. Most have policies, training and good intentions in place. But when it comes to actually teaching children, in a way that lasts, grows with them, and genuinely changes how they think and act, provision has too often fallen short. Roots to Branch changes that - and it is available for all schools from August 2026. This is more than a new resource. It’s a complete, ready-to-use safeguarding, wellbeing and life skills curriculum for Years 1 to 13, built to give every child, and every school, exactly what’s been missing. This is not safeguarding as a one-off lesson. It is safeguarding embedded into culture through a spiral curriculum - a culture children grow through.
Finally, a Curriculum That Closes the Gap For years, safeguarding education has relied on a patchwork of assemblies, one-off PSHE lessons and occasional visiting speakers. These moments matter, but on their own they leave gaps in children’s knowledge and awareness that schools have long struggled to solve, too often focusing on staff training rather than placing children at the centre of their own safeguarding. Roots to Branch solves this with a single, structured pathway covering ages 5 to 18, embedding practice through action-based modules and designed so that no child misses out and no year feels disconnected from the next. For schools, it means safeguarding finally becomes what it should always have been: not an event, but an embedded, evidenced, year-on-year culture, and one that’s simple to deliver from day one. Roots to Branch closes the gap between policy and practice by placing children at the centre of their own safeguarding education. A Curriculum Children Will Actually Love What makes Roots to Branch stand out is not just what it covers, it’s how it makes children feel about learning it. Every resource is built around the child, using engaging, age- appropriate activities that turn safeguarding from a topic children switch off from into
one they genuinely look forward to. The curriculum is built around six interconnected branches.
The six branches:
Personal Safety
Digital and Online Safety
Health, Wellbeing and Relationships
Safety in the Environment and Community
Speaking Up and Taking Action
Safeguarding Awareness in Practice
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