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Safeguarding you can put on a wall, in a pocket, in a lesson.

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14 resources

Guide Organisations

The Core Promises: the parts of a policy that must reach people

Most of a safeguarding policy can stay in the file. These eight promises cannot.

Guide Organisations

Writing the Child-Friendly Version of Your Policy

A one-page version children can read, with a worked template and the mistakes to avoid.

Guide Teachers & Staff

Receiving a Disclosure: the first five minutes

What to do โ€” and what never to do โ€” when a child starts telling you something serious.

Guide Teachers & Staff

Signs a Child May Need Help โ€” and what not to do with them

Changes worth noticing, patterns that matter more than moments, and the discipline of not investigating.

Guide Parents & Caregivers

Talking About Body Safety Without Fear

How to teach the rules so your child feels strong, not scared โ€” with scripts for ages 3 to 15.

Guide Parents & Caregivers

The Three Rules Every Child Should Know

A simple framework any family can teach in one evening: three rules, one reporting route.

Guide Organisations

Running a Parent Meeting on Safeguarding

A 40-minute meeting plan that builds trust instead of alarm โ€” agenda, scripts and the questions to expect.

Pocket Card Teachers & Staff

Three Rules Pocket Card โ€” print at home

The pocket-card wording, ready to print, cut and hand out.

Guide Parents & Caregivers

What Makes a Toy Child-Safe: the 10-point checklist

The checklist behind our child-safe label โ€” usable on anything already in your home or classroom.

Guide Organisations

Safe Adults: vetting, naming and briefing them

The minimum standard before an adult wears a Safe Adult badge or sits behind a Safe Space door.

Story Children

Amara Speaks Up

A short story about a bad secret, a brave sentence, and telling until someone helps.

Story Children

Okello and the Quiet Game

A story about a game that didn't feel like a game, the belly-feeling, and a boy who trusted it.

Activity Sheet Children

My Three Safe Adults โ€” trace-your-hand activity

A printable activity: trace your hand, name your safe adults, practise the telling sentence.

Poster Organisations

Report-Here Poster (English)

Wall poster wording for reporting routes โ€” print version available to order.

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