ABSTRACT
Feeling safe and secure is central to children realising their potential and leading healthy and fulfilled lives, so giving them the opportunity to explore and understand the right to feel safe in its broadest sense is fundamental to their emotional health, resilience and wellbeing. Recognising that feeling of ‘unsafe’ and being able to act on it is a lifelong skill that can be used from childhood and throughout adulthood. Based on Protective Behaviours and underpinned by the right to feel safe, this resource is relevant to all areas of Safeguarding and can be used with a whole class, a group or as a one-to-one intervention. Protective Behaviours is an internationally recognised process and a practical approach to personal safety that teaches understanding and strategies to recognise and act on unsafe feelings and experiences. In schools the designated teacher for looked-after and previously looked-after children has a crucial role in developing support for and understanding of the children.
