Five Things Teachers Can Do to Be Better at Safeguarding

All teachers want to protect their students.

Keeping them safe isn’t as simple as closing the school gates between 9am and 3pm. There’s a lot more to it.

It’s hard to digest the vast amounts of information on safeguarding, though. This is why we’ve compiled a list of the five things teachers can do to be better at safeguarding.

1) Understanding the difference between safeguarding and child protection.

Child protection is what you do in response to child abuse or neglect. Safeguarding is the process by which we prevent child abuse and neglect.

Understanding the difference is important because safeguarding goes beyond child protection. Rather than acting on abuse that has already occurred it protects children from maltreatment and promotes safety.

So you aren’t just waiting for a child to declare abuse, but instead you’re actively looking to prevent it.

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