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Safeguarding in 2024 part 2: Ensuring a person's suitability

In part two of her series, Rachel Buckler outlines how to ensure the ‘suitability’ of persons in positions of trust

In the first of this four-part series, I referred to some concerning and emergent safeguarding themes recognised from within the sector due to unsafe practices and/or poor leadership in early years provision.

In this article I want to focus specifically on the risks that occur directly as a result of unsuitable or unsafe people working with children. While we work within a clear, legislative framework (EYFS, 2024) which explains the expectations of how to keep children safe and well in respect to the suitability of ‘any person who may have regular contact with children’, the management of the process can be considerably challenging and sometimes not always straightforward.

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