Staff Training, INSET Days and Safeguarding CPD
2020 Dreams provides specialist staff training, safeguarding CPD and bespoke INSET programmes for schools, colleges, PRUs, alternative provision settings, local authorities, charities and organisations across the UK.
Our training helps teachers, safeguarding leads, pastoral teams, senior leaders, support staff and other professionals understand the complex and emerging issues affecting children and young people.
Training is practical, current and designed to improve staff knowledge, confidence, professional curiosity and the ability to identify concerns, respond appropriately and provide effective support.
UK wide delivery | Bespoke programmes | Whole staff or specialist teams | Face to face and online options
Prepare for the New RSHE Guidance from September 2026
The revised statutory Relationships, Sex and Health Education guidance introduces a stronger focus on the issues schools are now managing in classrooms, safeguarding cases and online spaces.
Our RSHE 2026 training can help staff understand and confidently teach emerging areas including misogyny, the manosphere, incel culture, positive masculinity, unhealthy attitudes towards women, pornography, consent, power and control, sexual harassment, AI generated content, deepfake pornography and harmful online influences.
Training can support curriculum planning, policy reviews, staff confidence, safeguarding practice and age appropriate responses to difficult questions from pupils.
Staff Training and INSET Programmes
Choose a single specialist topic or combine several related areas into a bespoke half day, full day or twilight training programme.
Misogyny, the Manosphere and Incel Culture
Helping staff understand how misogynistic narratives, online influencers and manosphere communities can shape pupils’ attitudes towards women, relationships, consent, power and identity.
Training can cover:
✓ The manosphere and its main online communities
✓ Misogynistic influencers and harmful online narratives
✓ Incel culture, grievance and entitlement
✓ Toxic masculinity and restrictive gender stereotypes
✓ Positive masculinity and healthy male role models
✓ Language, jokes and behaviour that normalise sexism
✓ Responding to misogynistic comments in the classroom
✓ Avoiding the stigmatisation of boys
✓ Supporting constructive and balanced discussion
✓ Links with sexual harassment, abuse and violence against women and girls
RSHE 2026 Curriculum and Policy Training
Supporting school leaders, PSHE leads and teaching staff to prepare for the revised statutory RSHE guidance taking effect from September 2026.
Training can cover:
✓ Key changes within the revised guidance
✓ Reviewing curriculum content and sequencing
✓ Age appropriate and developmentally appropriate delivery
✓ Consent, sexual ethics, power and control
✓ Misogyny, incel culture and positive masculinity
✓ Pornography and its impact on expectations and behaviour
✓ Artificial intelligence and deepfake sexual content
✓ Engaging parents and communicating curriculum changes
✓ Handling difficult or controversial questions
✓ Adapting provision for pupils with SEND
✓ Creating a safe and respectful learning environment
Harmful Sexual Behaviour and Sexual Harassment
Helping staff recognise, respond to and record sexualised behaviour, sexual harassment and abuse between children.
Training can cover:
✓ Understanding harmful sexual behaviour
✓ Distinguishing developmentally expected and concerning behaviour
✓ Sexual harassment and sexual violence
✓ Sexist language, jokes and unwanted sexual comments
✓ Online sexual harassment and image sharing
✓ Peer on peer abuse and power imbalance
✓ Responding to disclosures and concerns
✓ Supporting affected pupils without victim blaming
✓ Recording, reporting and safeguarding procedures
✓ Creating a whole school culture of safety and respect
Consent, Healthy Relationships and Domestic Abuse
Developing staff confidence when teaching and responding to concerns involving consent, boundaries, unhealthy relationships and controlling behaviour.
Training can cover:
✓ Consent and the law
✓ Communicating and withdrawing consent
✓ Healthy and unhealthy relationship indicators
✓ Coercive control and emotional abuse
✓ Teenage relationship abuse
✓ Domestic abuse and the impact on children
✓ Power imbalances and exploitation
✓ Sexual pressure and manipulation
✓ Responding sensitively to disclosures
✓ Appropriate support and signposting
Online Safety, AI, Deepfakes and Sextortion
Preparing staff to understand rapidly changing online risks and support pupils who experience digital abuse, exploitation or pressure.
Training can cover:
✓ Artificial intelligence and AI generated content
✓ Deepfakes and deepfake pornography
✓ Sextortion and online blackmail
✓ Online grooming and sexual exploitation
✓ Cyberbullying, trolling and pile ons
✓ Social media pressure and harmful algorithms
✓ Group chats and online peer behaviour
✓ Online reputation and digital footprints
✓ Privacy, identity theft and scams
✓ Misinformation, fake news and manipulated content
✓ Technology addiction and digital wellbeing
✓ Responding to incidents and preserving evidence
Pornography, Sexual Ethics and Online Influence
Helping staff address how pornography and online sexual content can affect expectations, consent, body image, relationships and behaviour.
Training can cover:
✓ Pornography literacy
✓ Unrealistic and harmful sexual expectations
✓ The relationship between pornography and misogyny
✓ Consent, respect and sexual ethics
✓ Violent, degrading and extreme content
✓ Online exposure and accidental access
✓ Body image and performance pressure
✓ AI generated sexual content
✓ Supporting open discussion without shame
✓ Age appropriate classroom delivery
✓ Safeguarding concerns and disclosures
Knife Crime, Gangs and County Lines
Giving staff the knowledge and confidence to recognise risk factors, identify exploitation and respond to concerns involving serious youth violence.
Training can cover:
✓ Knife crime and weapon carrying
✓ Gangs and group offending
✓ County lines and criminal exploitation
✓ Grooming and recruitment methods
✓ Online recruitment and social media influence
✓ Debt bondage, threats and coercion
✓ Missing episodes and unexplained possessions
✓ Joint enterprise and associated legal risks
✓ Peer pressure and perceived protection
✓ Supporting pupils at risk of exploitation
✓ Recording, reporting and multi agency referrals
Drugs, Alcohol, Vaping and Emerging Substances
Updating staff knowledge about current substances, patterns of use and the physical, emotional, social and safeguarding risks affecting young people.
Training can cover:
✓ Cannabis and cannabis edibles
✓ Vaping and nicotine dependence
✓ Nitrous oxide and associated health risks
✓ Alcohol misuse and binge drinking
✓ Drink spiking
✓ Prescription and over the counter medication misuse
✓ Drug related exploitation and debt
✓ Signs and indicators of substance misuse
✓ Responding to incidents and disclosures
✓ Harm reduction and appropriate signposting
✓ School policy and safeguarding responses
Mental Health, Self-Harm and Emotional Wellbeing
Improving staff awareness of common mental health concerns and developing confident, appropriate and supportive responses.
Training can cover:
✓ Anxiety, depression and low mood
✓ Self-harm awareness
✓ Suicidal thoughts and crisis indicators
✓ Emotional regulation and resilience
✓ Exam stress and academic pressure
✓ Body image and self-esteem
✓ Social media and mental wellbeing
✓ Trauma and adverse experiences
✓ Recognising changes in behaviour
✓ Responding to disclosures
✓ Professional boundaries and staff wellbeing
✓ Referral pathways and signposting
Prevent, Extremism and Radicalisation
Supporting staff to recognise vulnerability to radicalisation and understand how extremist narratives can target, influence and isolate young people.
Training can cover:
✓ The Prevent duty
✓ Signs of vulnerability and behavioural change
✓ Online radicalisation and grooming
✓ Extremist propaganda and misinformation
✓ Conspiracy theories and grievance narratives
✓ Far right, Islamist and other extremist influences
✓ Incel ideology where it intersects with extremism
✓ Professional curiosity and appropriate challenge
✓ Recording and escalating concerns
✓ Referral routes and safeguarding responsibilities
✓ Encouraging critical thinking and respectful discussion
Violence Against Women and Girls
Helping staff understand the attitudes, behaviours and safeguarding issues connected with violence against women and girls.
Training can cover:
✓ Misogyny and sexist attitudes
✓ Sexual harassment and sexual violence
✓ Domestic abuse and coercive control
✓ Stalking and harassment
✓ Female genital mutilation
✓ Forced marriage
✓ Honour based abuse
✓ Online abuse and image based offending
✓ Victim blaming and harmful myths
✓ Responding to disclosures
✓ Supporting a whole school culture of equality and respect
Bullying, Racism, Equality and Inclusion
Supporting staff to challenge prejudice, discriminatory language and bullying while building an inclusive and respectful culture.
Training can cover:
✓ Racism and racial bullying
✓ Prejudice and discriminatory language
✓ Identity based bullying
✓ Sexism and misogyny
✓ Cultural awareness and unconscious bias
✓ Respect, tolerance and inclusion
✓ Online bullying and hate
✓ Bystander behaviour and allyship
✓ Responding consistently to incidents
✓ Supporting affected pupils
✓ Building a whole school culture of belonging
Safeguarding Updates and Professional Curiosity
Strengthening staff understanding of safeguarding responsibilities and the importance of recognising, recording and escalating concerns.
Training can cover:
✓ Current safeguarding expectations
✓ Professional curiosity
✓ Recognising patterns and cumulative concerns
✓ Responding to disclosures
✓ Child on child abuse
✓ Contextual safeguarding
✓ Online and extra familial harm
✓ Appropriate recording and information sharing
✓ Escalating concerns and challenging decisions
✓ Maintaining professional boundaries
✓ Creating a strong safeguarding culture
SEND and Developmentally Appropriate RSHE
Helping staff adapt sensitive PSHE and RSHE content for pupils with additional needs and different levels of communication and understanding.
Training can cover:
✓ Developmentally appropriate delivery
✓ Adapting language and activities
✓ Consent, boundaries and personal safety
✓ Recognising grooming and exploitation
✓ Online safety and digital vulnerability
✓ Healthy and unhealthy relationships
✓ Repetition, visual support and accessible resources
✓ Responding to sexualised behaviour
✓ Avoiding assumptions about capacity or experience
✓ Supporting pupils to communicate concerns
✓ Working with families and multidisciplinary teams
Flexible Training Designed Around Your Organisation
Every programme can be adapted around your staff roles, safeguarding priorities, pupil profile and local context.
Training can be delivered as:
✓ Full INSET day training
✓ Half day training
✓ Twilight CPD sessions
✓ Senior leadership and safeguarding briefings
✓ Pastoral and designated safeguarding lead training
✓ Multi academy trust programmes
✓ Parent and carer sessions
✓ Local authority and multi agency training
✓ Face to face or online delivery
✓ Bespoke combined topic programmes
Sessions can include current research, legislation, safeguarding indicators, realistic scenarios, facilitated discussion, practical response strategies and opportunities for staff questions.
Plan Your Staff Training or INSET Day
Tell us the training topics you require, the number and roles of staff attending, your preferred dates, location and whether you require a twilight, half day or full day programme.
Our team will recommend a suitable structure and provide availability and costs.
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