What is this guide about, and who is it for?

This guide is about a review looking into how safe children are. It was carried out by inspectors to check that staff are keeping to the rules and doing all they can to keep children safe. They put what they found into a report called; "Safeguarding Children".

This guide is written for young people. It should help explain what is being done to keep them safe. Young people will be able to see what the review thinks is being done well and what it says is not good enough at the moment.

Why is this review necessary?

Keeping children safe has become far more important in recent years. Whilst most children are safe, there has been concern in the past that some children are not always as safe as they should be. Many reports have said that some things have simply got to change.

The Government has asked all organisations that inspect services for children to come together to report every three years on what they called children's safeguards. This simply means "the steps taken to keep children safe from harm; such as illness, abuse or injury".