End the Odds - DBS Safeguarding Reform

19/08/2026

Root The Rot with Leanne amazing work highlighting this 👏

19/08/2026

Root The Rot with Leanne highlighting what we have previously been discussing 👏

17/08/2026

🚨Yet another disturbing case reported.

🚨Yet another potential gap in our safeguarding systems.

The Daily Mail reports that a convicted s*x offender was able to use numerous different identities. Reportedly 20 aliases!!

🔎 It raises an important question;

Should criminal and safeguarding records be linked to a permanent, verified identifier, such as a National Insurance number or another secure unique identifier that cannot be changed - rather than relying so heavily on a person's current name?

People have legitimate reasons to change their names, and any system would need strong privacy safeguards. But changing a name should never allow somebody's relevant history to become harder for police, DBS checks or safeguarding organisations to trace.

Nor should moving from one area to another.

Safeguarding systems need to follow the person, not simply the name they happen to be using.

This is exactly why we need to keep examining the gaps between our systems and close the ones that allow dangerous people to slip through.

09/08/2026

💯 Change The Check 👏👏

🚨 A CLEAN DBS DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN SAFE.

This investigation should concern every parent, professional and safeguarding lead in the country.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that vulnerable children have been placed in illegal, unregistered children’s homes — while raising serious questions about the vetting of adults entrusted with their care.

One particularly important detail: the company said a manager at the centre of serious allegations had undergone an Enhanced DBS check which raised nothing of concern.

This is exactly why I keep campaigning.

Safeguarding cannot simply be about whether someone has a criminal conviction.

We need systems capable of identifying patterns of concerning behaviour, relevant police intelligence, civil outcomes and safeguarding information — particularly when someone is working with children or vulnerable people.

A “clean DBS” should never automatically be interpreted as a clean safeguarding history.

Children deserve better than gaps between agencies, systems and checks.

Safeguarding must look at the whole picture.

09/08/2026

🚨 An important investigation from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism today, raising serious questions about safeguarding, vetting and unregistered children’s homes.

It highlights exactly why safeguarding information needs to be joined up. When different organisations each hold only part of the picture, potentially important patterns can be missed.

Safeguarding shouldn't rely on luck or on the right person happening to connect the dots.

So how do we make sure the right people see the whole picture and how do we prevent people from falling through these safeguarding gaps in the future?

What needs to change?

Well worth a read and a share 👇

18/06/2026

NO MORE "LESSONS LEARNED"

Following the recent sentences in the Baby Preston case, another serious case review has been announced to examine how agencies shared information and whether opportunities to protect were missed.

Time and again, we hear the same phrase: "Lessons will be learned."

But how many times can we keep learning the same lessons?

When different agencies each hold part of the picture, those pieces need to come together. Police, health, education, social services and local authorities all play vital roles in safeguarding, but effective protection depends on communication as well as action.

No single agency can always see the full pattern alone.

This campaign has never been about criticising the professionals working within these services. It is about asking whether our systems do enough to connect the information that already exists before harm escalates.

Every serious case review should be an opportunity to improve how agencies work together and not just another report added to a shelf.

No more lessons learned. It's time for lessons applied.

10/06/2026

Thank you to Maya’s Law - Closing gaps in child safeguarding for sharing this article 👏

A regional police chief has urged the government to introduce stricter controls after a rise in vulnerable children living in “unregistered and…

10/06/2026

Well said Change The Check📢

Information that often won't appear on a DBS check..

🚫 Allegations

• Unproven allegations.
• Complaints that did not result in a conviction or caution.
• Historical safeguarding concerns that were never prosecuted.

🚫 Police investigations with no outcome

• Cases resulting in NFA (No Further Action).
•Cases where evidence thresholds weren't met.
• Investigations that never reached court.

🚫 Intelligence held by another force

• Information known to one police force may not automatically appear on a DBS.

• Enhanced DBS checks can include relevant local police information, but this is discretionary and not automatic.

🚫 Clare's Law disclosures

• Information disclosed under Clare's Law is not routinely transferred onto DBS certificates.

• Someone can receive a Clare's Law disclosure about an individual and that information may never appear on a DBS.

🚫 Civil orders and civil findings (often depends on circumstances)
Examples can include:

•Some injunctions.
•Some family court findings.
•Certain civil findings of stalking or harassment.
•Findings in family proceedings.
These don't automatically become criminal convictions.

🚫 Professional misconduct findings
Sometimes:

•Employment disciplinary findings.
Internal investigations.
•Resignations during investigations.
•Safeguarding concerns raised by employers.
may not appear on a DBS.

🚫 Historical concerns between agencies
Information held by:

•Social services.
•Housing providers.
•Schools.
•NHS trusts.
•Local authorities.

is not automatically visible on a DBS certificate.

🚫 Information held outside criminal records systems
Examples:

• Previous reports of neglect.
• Concerns raised by colleagues.
• Whistleblowing reports.
• Safeguarding referrals that didn't lead to criminal action.

Quite a list isn't it ?

03/06/2026

Please have a read and sign📝 and share if you agree ✅

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/751115?utm_id=97759_v0_s00_e227_tv3_tp1&fbclid=IwVERDUASM0xhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR7h1rTQDQMtQc-HGr0-mL_pgWsVMieOcsnPCO5OoTcIZF-ZhtvmhxzI_h8dUg_aem_OM_TVT5gnCJurzvzRWIDUw

I want the Government to review and strengthen DBS checks. Implement national pattern-recognition, improve cross-agency information sharing, create lifetime safeguarding records and automatic alerts to avoid missing repeated allegations or risks when people work with children or vulnerable adults.

24/04/2026

Everyone Needs to read this! The background on the two ' carers' who abused a child in their care😔

Looking at what’s been reported, these are the facts:

⚠️ One of the carers should have already been barred from working with children due to previous substantiated concerns of neglect

⚠️ The other was a former soldier, previously known in the media as the “Taliban Terminator”

🔎 Both individuals had worked together
previously in similar roles with vulnerable children

⚠️ No relevant information had been submitted to DBS from that previous employment

⚠️Between them, there were multiple convictions, including violent offences

🔎 They were able to secure further employment working with children, with checks relying on incomplete information and references from a previous work associate!

🔎 Both organisations involved have since ceased operating, with one continuing under a different name

How does this happen?

Where does responsibility sit when information isn’t shared?

And where is the accountability when vulnerable children are placed in these environments?

This isn’t about one case.

It’s about whether systems are strong enough to identify risk and act on it , before harm occurs.

Change starts small 💜

Credit to Tom Wall and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism for this reporting. Link to full article👇
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-04-02/carer-who-s*xually-abused-girl-had-neglected-an-injured-child-in-previous-job