Safeguarding is about prevention of harm and early intervention to minimise the impact on the child.  Safeguarding is a proactive preventative approach to child protection. Safeguarding examples include:

• Creating a culture where safeguarding and child protection is everyone’s responsibility.
• Implementing a procedure to ensure staff recruited are safe to be working with children (safe recruitment).
• Codes of Conduct for staff, volunteers, children and families.
• Establishing protocols regarding transportation, overnight stays or billeting of children.
• Zero tolerance of bullying.
• Robust Child Protection Policy and procedures, which everyone in the organisation knows and uses.
• Regular Child Protection training.
• Child centred practise.

Child protection is a reactive approach. It is part of a safeguarding process but details the action to follow when a child is identified as suffering from, or likely to suffer from serious harm – for example, a disclosure or suspected abuse and neglect.