Safeguarding in Action

Practise the decisions, not the theory

Safeguarding in Action puts you inside ten fictional situations and asks what you would actually do next. Each case moves through the same five skills: noticing that something may be wrong, responding to the person in front of you, recording what you know, reporting through the right route, and following up so the concern does not quietly stop moving. You can take any case as a practitioner. Where you hold or are working towards a leadership role, each case also has a leadership extension covering oversight, escalation and professional challenge.

Work through one decision at a time. After each choice you will see what that choice does well, what it misses and what it risks, and the scenario will often move on differently because of it. Some choices are unsafe. Where that happens you will get a corrective explanation and another chance to act rather than an invented disaster. More than one option is sometimes defensible, and the feedback says so.