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Safeguarding Assurance: How Do You Know Your Safeguarding Activity Is Making a Difference?
Read Article: Safeguarding Assurance: How Do You Know Your Safeguarding Activity Is Making a Difference?Safeguarding activity alone does not provide assurance. BCS Safeguarding explores how leaders and boards can look beyond data and ask what difference their safeguarding work is actually making
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Building a Culture of Safeguarding Beyond Compliance
Read Article: Building a Culture of Safeguarding Beyond ComplianceThe post emphasises the difference between compliance and safeguarding culture in organisations. While compliance ensures minimum standards are met through policies and training, true safeguarding culture is embedded in daily…
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Is Your Safeguarding Dependent on Key Individuals?
Read Article: Is Your Safeguarding Dependent on Key Individuals?This article emphasises the risks associated with over reliance on key individuals in safeguarding roles, such as Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs). When knowledge and responsibilities concentrate with one person, governance…
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Safeguarding Children 2026: Essential Steps for Leaders
Read Article: Safeguarding Children 2026: Essential Steps for LeadersThe updated “Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026” emphasises stronger expectations in safeguarding practices, focusing on inclusivity, accountability, and data use. Leaders must demonstrate the impact of decisions and improve…
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Southport Inquiry Exposes Failures: What Safeguarding Leads Must Do Now
Read Article: Southport Inquiry Exposes Failures: What Safeguarding Leads Must Do NowThe UK’s recent public inquiry into the Southport tragedy has brought to light a number of safeguarding failures with potentially far‑reaching implications for schools, mental health services, social care, and…
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Addressing gaps in safeguarding systems
Read Article: Addressing gaps in safeguarding systemsPrevent problems, DASH failings and recognising honour-based abuse. Three stories have pulled back the curtain on how our safeguarding system sometimes misses the mark: gaps in Prevent when violence isn’t…