What is Safeguarding?

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined for the purposes
of this guidance as:

● protecting children from maltreatment;
● preventing impairment of children’s health or development;
● ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the
   provision of safe and effective care;

and undertaking that role so as to enable those children to have optimum life chances and to enter adulthood successfully.

(Taken from Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010).