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Every member of staff, every year, with a date against it.
Safeguarding training has to be refreshed and it has to be evidenced, in a workforce with constant turnover and a lot of part-time and peripatetic staff. aircpd tracks it per person and keeps a setting inspection-ready without anyone maintaining a spreadsheet.
The shape of the problem
Education's statutory training obligations are not complicated in themselves. They are hard because of the workforce: new starters arriving through the year, supply and peripatetic staff, volunteers, and a headcount spread across sites in a trust or a group.
The records are usually a spreadsheet plus a pile of signed attendance sheets, maintained by someone who has another job. And a common misunderstanding makes it worse: the central register a setting keeps is a record of pre-appointment vetting checks, not a record of training, so the thing people reach for at inspection does not answer the question being asked.
How the rules vary
Where aircpd helps
Refreshers on each person's own clock.
Not one annual session that half the staff missed, but a per-person date that you can see slipping before it slips.
New starters picked up automatically.
Induction training publishes to them when they join, whenever in the year that is.
Inspection-ready by setting.
Status across a school, a trust or a nursery group, with dates, ready when someone asks rather than assembled the night before.
Development alongside compliance.
Teacher development recorded in the same place as the statutory minimum, so professional growth is visible rather than buried under mandatory training.
“Every member of school staff needs a safeguarding update at least annually, across tens of thousands of schools and registered childcare providers in England alone.”
Who this is for
Per-person dates, new starters picked up automatically, and a setting that is inspection-ready on any day. The evidence above is England-specific and is given as an example.
Regulators and professional bodies are named to illustrate the markets aircpd is designed for. No partnership or endorsement is implied. Requirements change: this page is a guide, not legal advice.
Start with the record you already have.
Connect your calendar and files, and aircpd will show you the CPD you've already completed this year. Most people are further along than they think.