Frontline safeguarding for teaching assistants. Spotting changes, supporting disclosures, and following the Working Together 2023 pathway without overstepping.
As a teaching assistant, you often see things the classroom teacher does not. You sit close to pupils, you support them through small frustrations, and you are sometimes the first adult a child turns to when something is wrong. That trust is a safeguarding asset. Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 makes clear that every adult who works with children has a role in identifying concerns and acting on them. This guide explains, in plain terms, what to do — and what not to do — when a child shows you they are not okay.
Many serious case reviews note that signs were missed not because no one saw them, but because the person who saw them did not feel it was their place to say. TAs who feel confident to log a concern, no matter how small, give the DSL the pattern data they need. A child who knows there is always one adult in the room they can talk to is a safer child.
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