“In too many places the contribution and voice of education is missing from multi-agency safeguarding conversations.
“It feels like an oversight not to consider what bigger role education could play in partnerships,” MacAlister told the charity’s How Safe 2022 conference which centred around the theme of “empowering others to play their part in protecting children from abuse”.
MacAlister added: “The seemingly constant new threats - from online harms to ever more sophisticated criminal networks - mean that we need our best team on the field, a team that really knows and understands children and young people and that means schools being an equal player.”
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