Passed the point of no return?

Kit Marie Rackley has been busy. She has created a very impressive, thoughtful and helpful new set of materials for potential use in those staff gatherings at the start of each academic year when staff have their KCSIE updates  from their DSL or DSO. KCSIE is short for 'Keeping children safe in education' and outlines statutory actions and guidance provided by the DfE for all those working with young people. The most recent updates seem to have paid no attention to the fact that extreme temperatures have caused some schools to close, and distress to some students (and staff) in those that decided to stay open. KCSIE 2026 talks extensively about mental health, contextual risk, children potentially at greater risk, absence, information sharing, online harms, professional curiosity and whole-school safeguarding. Yet it still fails to name climate change as a foreseeable, context-shaping condition already affecting children’s physical welfare, emotional wellbeing, attendance, safe...