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I have a friend who has been the safeguarding lead in a school, it's a tough and emotional job with enormous responsibility. He's found it incredibly fulfilling
by samwillis 3y ago
I have a friend who has been the safeguarding lead in a school, it's a tough and emotional job with enormous responsibility. He's found it incredibly fulfilling, but I can only imagine what he has had to deal with based on the few hits we have heard.
My understanding is that the teachers that take on these roles are incredibly well trained, understand the responsibility, and know how to be both discreet and keep things privet. I believe a lot of the information available through this app was already being made available to the safeguarding leads in schools.
Challenging the use of this app is good, that's the role of these origination, checks and balances and all that. We need to be sure it is a net benefit for all involved. There is no denying though that if it helps teachers in safeguarding children that is a good thing.
- swagempire 3y agoWhat is a "safegaurding lead"? It sounds kind of creepy from your description.
- badcppdev 3y agoIt's the UK term for the person in any organisation that deals with vulnerable people (children, patients, disabled people, old people) that has the responsibility of taking any allegations, concerns, accusations and making sure they are dealt with properly. That means documenting, investigating, and escalating to the authorities.
- swagempire 3y agoShouldn't that be a lawyer normally? It sounds like they have a great potential to violate human rights.
- notahacker 3y agoThis may come as a surprise to you, but schools, community football clubs, nursing homes etc don't have full time lawyers in the UK. Someone has to decide when to call the police, when to call social services, when to [not] immediately alert parents, guardians of next or kin, when to seek further legal advice etc. And frankly the last person you'd want to be the main point of contact for vulnerable people dealing with sensitive issues is a lawyer whose job it is to minimise problems for the organisation (or maximise work for themselves...)
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- mynameisvlad 3y agoI mean it just sounds like a formalized mandatory reporter to me. That's pretty much what they're there for in the US as well.
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- justsomehnguy 3y agoSomewhat similar to ombudsman?
- lozenge 3y agoMaybe a guidance counselor or pastoral role? Who do the police call when they find a student misbehaving, who calls the parents when the kid is repeatedly absent, who talks to CPS if the kid is avoiding going home.
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- bmsleight_ 3y ago>There is no denying though that if it helps teachers in safeguarding children that is a good thing. The problem is the variability of quality of teachers. I seen and been involved, both as a parent and governor with Safeguarding leads. There has been wonderful, caring and talented teachers. I am not convinced the excellent teachers need more data - they know the kids and the families very well and can draw on years of experience and support. There has been also teachers, which have out-dated views and prejudices. This tool in the wrong hand makes matters far worse. This feels like a tool put together with people with outdated views. Like teenage parents are an indicator of a need for safe-guarding or being out of work is a correlation for safe-guiding. This clear prejudices being born-out.