When considering the present-day safeguarding and child protection landscape, it is not difficult to recognise the significant changes and shifts that have resulted in some of the most challenging, and in some cases, dangerous circumstances facing young children and their families at this moment in time. In brief, the situation is mostly impacted by three main elements:
As with other universal services, early years, while rising to the challenges, is along with others struggling to navigate its way around safeguarding and child protection's contexts and systems. There is often confusion where practitioners, especially safeguarding leads, find themselves easily distracted or misled by the belief that knowledge of a certain safeguarding subject or topic helps them to be more competent in their roles. While a wider knowledge base of safeguarding themes and merging topics can be helpful, the approach to effective practice is neither complicated nor difficult.
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