Most people don't understand safeguarding?

[sickofthisnonsense]

Watching the Jimmy Savile documentary and it's obvious how there just wasn't any safeguarding at the time. I thought things had got better but so many things have happened recently to make me see this just isn't true.

Safeguarding has become a tickbox exercise.

Some examples I've experienced;

Poor safeguarding policy being implemented for online classes both in school and outside clubs. Not one parent or 'teacher' questioned practice that is a basic first lesson on any safeguarding course.

Parents hearing about abuse of a friends child and refusing to even consider flagging it to anyone.

Numerous posts on this forum where basic understanding of safeguarding would help prevent issues.

This is all before we even get to the whole self ID mess.

For a while the nation was shocked by Saviles crimes, policies were put in place to make it harder for this to happen again yet we seem to have gone backwards.

Yanbu. People seem to take it as a personal accusation. Especially when it's aimed at keeping anyone male out of anywhere there may be girls amd women I'm vulnerable positions. It's as if you personally accused their son or husband being a rapist. With the irony being that they want to protect their boys from the same men too by allowing men amd boys in where they should not be.

I suppose it helps though that we Hve a culture if victim blaming. We don't have to berate adults for ignoring or not understanding safguarding we can just say the kids should have screamed louder/said something/left/worn something sensible /not been out that late etc etc 🙄

YANBU. I've seen some shocking replies on threads recently about letting stuff drop which is an absolute obvious safeguarding matter.

Poor safeguarding policy being implemented for online classes both in school and outside clubs. Not one parent or 'teacher' questioned practice that is a basic first lesson on any safeguarding course.

You are wrong there. I saw plenty of discussions on here regarding safeguarding with respect to zoom use during lockdown.

You are completely correct wrt Self id and throwing safeguarding out of the window with that.

I also think people who haven't needed to really think about it, don't. Hence the 'it's not my business' or 'I can't prove it so will say nothing' attitudes rather than better safe than sorry.

I was actually referencing my own direct experience on the zoom.
I had to make myself very unpopular by going over the head of the person I charge of the sessions