Covid-19 and the truth about child protection in schools in the UK

For Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs), the current situation – supporting children of concern remotely or their engagement being voluntary – is their worst nightmare. The DfE has [...]

Ok, I was delivering a two day Designated Safeguarding Officer training at the start of the year and had a lovely mixed group of 15 delegates from faith groups, the military, charities, leisure [...]

I’ve delivered a few sessions this half term and had the surprise of my life on one of them. I’d never experienced this in all my twenty-one years of being a practitioner. They say it’s never too [...]

Wow! I’ve recently experienced settings (school and nursery) where they’ve had no concern forms in place at all. They’d have staff either ‘jot them an email’ or ‘have a quiet word’ about concerns [...]