A Day as the Safeguarding Lead

Four days, four organisations, one inbox at a time

A Day as the Safeguarding Lead puts you at the desk on four fictional working days, in four different organisations. Messages arrive, evidence is incomplete, several things matter at once, and the day moves when you decide it moves. Nothing here is real and nothing you do leaves this page.

Each day runs in three stages. At the start of day you read eight items, decide what comes first and take your first actions. At midday four update events arrive, and at least two of them differ depending on what you did earlier. At handover you write the summary that lets someone else pick the day up. Timestamps are part of the fiction; nothing is timed and nothing penalises you for reading slowly or taking a break.