Safeguarding has always been at the heart of the Early Years Foundation Stage. Under the 2012 version, the renamed Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements were further developed to capture themes from the serious case review that followed abuse at the Little Teds Nursery in Plymouth. The current framework, revised in 2017, builds upon this: supervisions should include discussions about ‘child protection concerns’, while early years providers must respond to signs of female genital mutilation.
While this is a legal framework, it also places early years staff in the best possible position to recognise and respond to vulnerable children in order to help and protect them.
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