Of course there's a case for safeguarding of children.
People seem to think that safeguarding is literally about whether or not the children are specifically in danger at that particular moment in time.
It isn't.
It's about risk management and assessment.
Just off the top of my head, wanting to use your workplace, which includes children, as a place to make secret pornography, the lack of boundaries, the lack of respect for others, the knowledge that you could be seen, the likliehood that discovery is a motivation, the lack of understanding of what is appropriate or decent.
Anyone could make mincemeat of the defence that it's not a safeguarding issue.