Nursery World - Rebuilding Your Staff Team, Part 4

In the final part of this series, Jo Caswell covers how to support staff with safeguarding vulnerable children

In my experience as an inspector, staff often miss seeing the bigger picture of safeguarding. Records are kept and written procedures are mainly adhered to. However, not all the information known about a child is always linked together. Safeguarding should be regarded like a jigsaw puzzle. Until all the pieces are linked, the full picture is not known.

The coronavirus pandemic has placed an unprecedented amount of strain on all sectors of the community and the range of services which support them. Families who may not have been classified as ‘at risk’ may now be much more vulnerable than before. The NSPCC saw calls from adults with concerns for the well-being of a child rise by 32 per cent during lockdown. Staff need to make sure that the needs of every child returning to settings is precisely assessed.

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