
Nigel Heritage
Nigel has been involved in safeguarding children for over 40 years, since he first trained as a teacher of children with learning difficulties. He has had to deal with many different safeguarding situations throughout his career which has included working in the UK state sector, in ELT overseas and also in UK, managing junior summer programmes and for the last 12 years, training.
Nigel is a tutor for English UK and is the leading safeguarding trainer and consultant for ELT in the UK. He specialises in student welfare in general and safeguarding and young learners in particular.
Safeguarding children well is one of the most important things we do for international students visiting UK. It is very important that we get it right.
Posts by Nigel Heritage:
Amendment to Disqualification by Association
20th December 2018There was a requirement that schools taking children under the age of 8 had to get staff to sign a ‘Disqualification by Association’ for [...]
Read More Safeguarding / Teaching English / Teaching Young LearnersUpdating Safeguarding Policy
28th November 2018With so many safeguarding updates introduced recently, your organisation’s safeguarding policy will need to be updated before the end [...]
Read More News / SafeguardingInvolving Students in Safeguarding
23rd November 2018Safeguarding is not only about adults looking after students under 18. We often think safeguarding is about adults looking after students pr [...]
Read More SafeguardingSafeguarding 16 and 17 Year Olds on Adult Courses
20th November 2018Many schools organise course primarily for adults but also accepts students as young as 16. What special challenges does this type of course [...]
Read More Safeguarding / Teaching English / Teaching Young LearnersSafeguarding Newsletter – October 2018
6th November 2018Welcome This is the seventh Gallery Teachers Safeguarding Newsletter of 2018. The Newsletter offers some thoughts and reminders about safegu [...]
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