Every 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 to launch in August 2026.
Roots to Branch changes that and it is available for all schools from August 2026. 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.
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.
- 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
Together, these branches give children a joined-up understanding of how to keep themselves and others safe, both online and offline. Children do not need more rules to memorise. They need the confidence, language and judgement to act when it matters.
Progressive by Design – A Journey, Not a Lesson
Roots to Branch is the only curriculum of its kind to offer a genuinely progressive journey from a child’s very first year at school to their last.
The Little Roots Journey takes children aged 5 to 11 through the Explorer, Champion and Ambassador stages, building strong, age-appropriate foundations early. The Branch Journey then carries young people aged 11 to 18 through the Award, Certificate and Diploma levels, deepening and extending that knowledge as their independence and responsibilities grow.
Every stage builds on the last, meaning schools no longer need to start from scratch each year, and children benefit from a safeguarding education that grows in sophistication exactly when they need it to. The result is real, lasting impact, not just another lesson ticked off the list.
Best Practice – Without the Workload
Roots to Branch does not just meet best practice in safeguarding education, it makes best practice effortless to deliver. Every module combines mandatory and optional learning experiences, giving schools the consistency they need plus the flexibility to adapt to their setting.
Rich learning resources, additional activities, reflection tasks and engaging videos are all provided, ready to use, with no extra planning required. And because evidencing impact matters more than ever, Roots to Branch builds it in automatically: module certificates, end-of-year certificates, recognition badges, downloadable portfolios of evidence and school portfolio showcases give schools everything they need to celebrate progress and demonstrate impact to governors, inspectors and families alike.
A Genuinely Innovative Way to Learn
The Roots to Branch App takes this curriculum further than any school-based safeguarding programme has gone before. Children can access curriculum resources instantly, continue learning seamlessly at school or at home, watch guided videos, complete activities and reflections, and move effortlessly between modules and units, all in one place.
It does not stop there. Children can upload videos, photos and voice recordings as part of their reflections, monitor their own progress across every module, and build a downloadable digital portfolio that captures their safeguarding journey over time.
For schools, it is a powerful tool for engagement, evidencing and impact. For children, it is safeguarding learning that feels like it belongs in their world.
What Roots to Branch includes
- A full Years 1 to 13 curriculum
- Safeguarding, wellbeing and life skills content
- Mandatory and optional modules
- Ready-to-use teaching resources
- Activities, reflections and guided videos
- Certificates and recognition badges
- Downloadable evidence portfolios
- App-based internet browser learning
- Global adaptability for different schools
One Curriculum. Any School. Anywhere.
Roots to Branch has been designed from the ground up for global use, inspired by our mission to embed safeguarding, with leaves drawn from around the world, and built to work regardless of location or existing curriculum. Wherever a school is, and whatever framework it already follows, Roots to Branch can be adopted and adapted to fit.
That means every school, in every country, can now offer its children the same deep-rooted, progressive, world-class approach to safeguarding, without needing to build it themselves.
Launching August 2026
Roots to Branch will be available for schools to launch from August 2026, offering a complete safeguarding curriculum pathway from Years 1 to 13.
- Ready to use
- Child-centred
- Progressive pathway
- Evidence-rich
- Digital portfolio
- Global curriculum
- Low workload
- High impact
The Time to Act Is Now
Roots to Branch represents a genuine step-change in safeguarding education: progressive, innovative, evidence-rich, and, above all, built entirely around children. Schools that adopt it aren’t just filling a gap in provision.
They’re setting a new standard for what safeguarding education can be, and giving every child the foundations to grow safely, confidently and resiliently, from their very first year of school to their last.
Find out more or schedule a call today to bring Roots to Branch to your school.