We all want safer child protection services – i.e. services in which disasters
and other unwanted outcomes are ever less likely to happen.
Safer services are supported by three
pillars – Greek or Roman columns perhaps?
Building the three pillars of safety
supports the roof of safer services. Unlike Greek or Roman columns, however, these
pillars do not need to be very ornate. What counts is not the decoration but
the basic approach. And we can build these
pillars up from below to support the services we already have. We don’t need a
new roof, just a better supported one.
We could start building these pillars
tomorrow – if only we could grasp the opportunity and stop being distracted by
other things which do not support safer services and safer children.
