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Safeguarding – a concerted effort

To be effective, safeguarding strategies need to recognise the role of all professionals working with children. Debbie Moss explains

Whether you’re a teacher, parent, social worker, health professional or politician, everyone agrees that our first and most important duty is to keep children safe from harm. In recent years, horrific revelations about child sexual exploitation have shocked us all. We know that in every community, every school and every classroom there are children at risk.

It has now been more than four years since Jimmy Savile’s crimes first came to light, and more than three years since the establishment of the Jay Inquiry into child sexual abuse in Rotherham. Every day it seems there are new reports of abuse past and present – the disease has spread even into our national game of football.

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