Leading child protection

Maintain robust safeguarding procedures in your setting and ensure all staff are aware of responsibilites and processes to follow when dealing with a safeguarding issue.

  • Listening to children: what helps children to disclose?
    How can you provide a school environment that is open for children to disclose abuse or neglect? Tina Rae focuses on how and why children and young people become ready to disclose and what they say aids them in the process of talking to concerned adults
  • Understanding the parent’s perspective
    How can DSPs best support parents following a disclosure of abuse? Tina Rae describes possible reactions and emotions of the parent and provides for staff to help
  • Educating young children about safeguarding
    Educating young children about keeping themselves safe and protecting themselves from abuse can be a challenge. Debs Ward explains different approaches to teach this to primary aged children

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