How This Site Is Reviewed

SafeChildGuide is reviewed against UK statutory sources and lived parenting and safeguarding experience. The site is written and maintained by a small editorial team rather than a named board of experts. We have deliberately chosen not to publish a fabricated list of contributors or credentials. What we can do is be transparent about the process the content goes through and the sources it is checked against.

Our review process

Every page on this site follows the editorial workflow set out in our methodology. In short:

• Sourcing: We start from the highest-tier UK source available for the topic — statutory guidance, regulators, then long-established safeguarding charities.
• Review cadence: Content is reviewed on a rolling basis and updated when UK guidance changes, when the platforms or services we describe change, or when a reader flags an issue.
• Correction process: Anyone can report a problem via our corrections page. We aim to acknowledge within five working days and log significant changes publicly.
• Evidence standards: We prefer to cite primary UK sources directly and avoid presenting marketing material, paid-for promotion, or speculative claims as evidence.

Sources we trust

The bodies whose guidance we draw on most often are listed in our source library, grouped by tier. Linking to them does not imply endorsement in either direction.

Lived experience

Practical guidance — what actually helps in a real family or classroom — is informed by parents, carers, school staff, youth workers, and safeguarding professionals who have agreed to share what they have seen work and not work. We do not name those contributors. Some asked not to be named because of the children they care for or work with; others are quoted only as part of a wider group. Where a specific anecdote is used to illustrate guidance, it is either anonymised or composed from common patterns rather than presented as a single identified case.

If you have expertise to contribute

If you work in UK safeguarding, education, health, social care, policing, or children's services and you would like to flag a gap, suggest a topic, or offer to review a page in your specialism, please get in touch via our corrections page or the contact page. We welcome challenge from people closer to the work than we are.