As Delyth Lynch reaches the letter “D” in the ABC of Safeguarding podcast series, she ventures to Downe House in Berkshire, an all-girls boarding school.
She chats to deputy head (pastoral) and safeguarding lead Genevieve Ford, who explains how her career brought her to work at the high profile establishment.
She talks about the challenges of dealing with sexual assault cases and the special skills DSLs need to compartmentalise different elements of their life and work.
She also explains that the lead safeguarding role need not be “a lonely one” and the importance of building a relationship with the safeguarding governor.
She reveals a number of other anecdotes – one involving a trapeze – that remind listeners that being humourless is not actually in the safeguarding lead job description…
