The Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI) Safeguarding Remote and blended learning: challenges and approaches paper identifies the key safeguarding challenges faced by schools and educational/training organisations during the period of educational closures due to COVID-19 and how these have been approached across all phases of education and training. The paper includes a range of examples from each phase detailing how specific organisations have responded and the approaches they have put in place. The ETI have engaged with leaders, principals and training providers throughout the period of closure and the paper has been informed by this information.