Sentence examples for a safeguarding issue from inspiring English sources
The most important aspect of the report is to treat FGM as a safeguarding issue, as it is child abuse and needs to be stopped.
She said it's a safeguarding issue and that, when the academic year starts in September, pupils who do not abide by the new rules will be sent home if they do not wear 'business-like trousers'.
Initially, the minster said health and safety factors lay behind the move, but within days John Sentamu, the archbishop of York, held a press conference at which he disclosed that a safeguarding issue was the reason for the mass dismissal.
Leora Cruddas, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "Our position on this is that radicalisation of young people is first and foremost a safeguarding issue.
To counter such qualms, the police are attempting to rebrand Prevent by selling the concept of counter-radicalisation as a safeguarding issue, emphasising the reality that travelling to Syria involves entering a conflict zone.
The relationship between child maltreatment and non-attendance at appointments (and family disengagement from services more generally) has assumed importance as a safeguarding issue.
He said he considered the lack of information to be "a serious safeguarding issue", adding: "It is an issue which I believe has wider implications for schools and local authorities".
There was management involvement in only 51% of cases where there was a child safeguarding issue, although this rose to 71% of high-risk cases.
Missing People chief executive Jo Youle said: "Regardless of whether the police classify a child or young person as missing or as absent, it must be recognised that there is always a wider safeguarding issue.
For its part, the government insists that extremism is an important safeguarding issue that has to be addressed.
Department for Education guidance, issued to primary and secondary school headteachers on Tuesday, says radicalisation must be treated as a "grooming and safeguarding issue", which should be dealt with in the same way as child exploitation.
