End the Odds - DBS Safeguarding Reform

11/10/2026

HOW CAN THESE TWO THINGS EXIST AT ONCE?

How can someone be considered at such risk that they are offered a safe house by the authorities, yet the very person they fear can still be cleared to work with some of the most vulnerable children in society?

“Grace” later described feeling gaslit by the very systems meant to protect people, and frustrated by her attempts to raise safeguarding concerns.

This contradiction is one of the driving forces behind End the Odds.

When serious concerns exist in one part of the system, how are they assessed and shared with those responsible for safeguarding children?

How can these two realities exist side by side?

Thank you to Right to Equality for previously highlighting Grace's story.

03/10/2026

The small price of a name change should never come at the enormous price abused children can pay.

A new name should not be a clean slate !

We came across the DellasLaw campaign and immediately saw the connection with End the Odds.

Names can change. Addresses can change. People can move between areas and organisations.

Safeguarding information must follow the person.

Della's Law is campaigning to close dangerous gaps around name changes and the identification of registered s*x offenders.

This is why joining the dots matters and why those dots need to stay joined.

Please watch and support Della's Law. ❤️

01/10/2026

The Jane Doe movement may be happening thousands of miles away, but the questions being asked should sound very familiar.

Who knew what?

Who held the information?

Who was responsible for safeguarding?

And who was joining the dots?

Different country. Different systems. Same uncomfortable questions 😞

Safeguarding shouldn't depend on somebody being lucky enough to uncover the missing piece.

We need systems capable of recognising patterns, sharing relevant safeguarding information appropriately, and seeing the whole picture before another person is harmed.

30/09/2026

This is exactly why safeguarding cannot begin and end with a DBS certificate.

A childcare support worker was in a position of trust around a vulnerable 16-year-old yet that position gave him access to the very person safeguarding systems were supposed to protect.

We need to keep asking the uncomfortable questions: What was known? What checks were carried out? Were concerns held elsewhere? And could better information-sharing have identified risk sooner?

Safeguarding has to be about joining the dots before another child becomes the evidence that something went wrong.

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22/09/2026

Who is joining the dots? Who is checking patterns of concern? And who is ultimately responsible for making sure the adults entrusted with vulnerable children are suitable to be there?

Children deserve safeguarding systems designed to protect them before something goes wrong !
Not questions about missed opportunities afterwards.

Thank you to NOVO ORG for covering this and raising awareness

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 👇