Kaizen Safeguarding

Enabling you to grow safe, brave spaces.
Independent safeguarding across the faith, charity and education sectors.
Your voice matters.

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

Delighted to be delivering this course with CiNI. If you're interested in creating and sustaining a healthy culture in your organisation, we would love to have you join us!

[Children in NI @ChildreninNI]

New course!
Places are available for Creating & Sustaining Healthy Cultures – the newest addition to our training portfolio.
Designed for leaders and those in pastoral and organisational roles across faith, charity, education and community settings.
https://t.co/gEgxgfgVBb

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

Kaizen Safeguarding's statement on the NI Executive's publication of the Historical Clerical Child Sex Abuse reports. These are vital reading for anyone working in the faith-based context or in safeguarding. Key recommendations if churches are to truly become safe spaces.

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

@TonyGribben3

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

Kaizen Safeguarding statement re: safeguarding reviews in Northern Ireland. Full position statement can be accessed at Media — Kaizen Safeguarding

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

https://t.co/cZHKOsAJsW

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

🌟Our new safeguarding training dates are now live!
From safeguarding children, to adults; designated leads and trustee roles, to receiving disclosures well and creating and sustaining healthy cultures- book today at Training | Expert Safeguarding Training — Kaizen Safeguarding

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

Today our Director was on BBC Talkback speaking about safeguarding in faith communities, spiritual abuse & the impact of unregulated counselling in faith contexts

Available on BBC Sounds, or by clicking the link below ⏬

https://t.co/iWdzb7e4qB

#safefaith
#kaizensafeguarding

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

Didn't get to see our webinar last week over on @CPOMSUK If you want to learn more about receiving safeguarding disclosures well and practitioner wellbeing, check this out ⏬️
https://t.co/aPVkgksn4I

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

We're delighted to be at the NICVA (Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action) Summit today! If you are one of the many incredible organisations that are here today, please do stop by and say hello!

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

If you work in education, why not join us for this webinar we are co-hosting with @CPOMSUK on Friday 19th June. Receiving disclosures well and practitioner wellbeing are two key areas within safeguarding that can't be ignored. See you there!

[CPOMS @CPOMSUK]

How do you feel about responding to a safeguarding concern?

Most practitioners say that they find it emotionally draining, and understandably so. Leigh McFarlane, Director of @Kaizen_Safe based in Northern Ireland will be joining our next webinar to explore how practitioners can respond with confidence, clarity and compassion, while still protecting their own wellbeing.

This webinar will draw on Leigh’s experience working in Northern Ireland and trauma-informed practice to offer guidance to anyone in a role where they may receive disclosures, respond to concerns, or support individuals who have experienced harm.

🗓 Friday 19 June 2026
⏰ 15.00 BST

Reserve your place now, https://t.co/b0MtVnhJBO

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

Words matter!

[LeighMcF @mcfarlanefamily]

Language in safeguarding and faith spaces matters, both in relation to victims/survivors. It is never ok to explicitly use words designed to minimise/cover up or deny what has happened.
Church officer called a 'satanist' for raising safeguarding concerns
https://t.co/FGrg6tFsuJ

[LeighMcF @mcfarlanefamily]

This is what bravery looks like ⏬️ It is never ok to harm & abuse someone. It is never ok to protect the institution over the survivor.
https://t.co/1Dza6AXDmy

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

An excellent analysis from @ChrisTuck_SoB, poorly designed data systems stop the true scale of CSAE being understood and concerns being acted upon sooner.

[Chris Tuck | CSA Speaker & Campaigner @ChrisTuck_SoB]

💥 We don’t just have missing data. We have systems that aren’t designed to recognise patterns even when the information is there💥

A new report from the @educationgovuk explores how child sexual abuse and exploitation is recorded within children’s social care:

https://t.co/R6Wtj0Vj8Q⁠

It highlights something many professionals will recognise:
👉 Risk is often understood over time
👉 But systems are designed to record incidents at a point in time

So what happens?
👉 The data captures what fits the structure…
👉 But we’re still not seeing the pattern.

Now hold that alongside this:
�� Only 1 in 8 children experiencing sexual abuse are known to authorities

So we are facing two realities at once:
🔹 The majority of children remain completely unseen
🔹 And even within the data we do have, patterns of harm are still being missed

Not because professionals aren’t recognising risk —

But because the system isn’t designed to capture how harm actually develops.

Because exploitation doesn’t arrive as a single incident.

It builds.
Through behaviour.
Through relationships.
Through context.
And that matters.

Because when patterns aren’t visible:
🔹 Risk becomes fragmented
🔹 Insight stays buried in case notes
🔹 Harm is absorbed into broader categories
🔹 Intervention happens later not earlier
👉 And that means opportunities to recognise and prevent harm earlier are missed.

This isn’t just about improving data.
👉 It’s about how decisions are made, how resources are allocated and ultimately, who gets seen.

If we want earlier intervention, we need systems that can recognise patterns not just record incidents.

This is something I explore in my paper:
“Child Sexual Abuse, Data and Structural Invisibility”
https://t.co/Axt3dfBPuu⁠

Because this isn’t just about what is missing from the data…
👉 It’s about how systems, language and policy shape what becomes visible in the first place.

"What is not named is not measured. What is not measured is not funded. What is not funded is not prevented".
- Chris Tuck 2026

The report shows the system isn’t seeing the pattern.

My paper explains why because it was never designed to.

💙 There is love, life and laughter after abuse
💙 Rebuilding you piece by piece
💙 Empowering futures

As we approach our 10-Year Milestone & Impact Event, these are exactly the conversations we need to be having.

Because if we want better outcomes…we need better ways of seeing.

#ChildSexualAbuse
#ChildSexualExploitation
#Safeguarding
#SystemChange
#SurvivorVoice
#DataMatters

@SOB_Org

[Chris Tuck | CSA Speaker & Campaigner @ChrisTuck_SoB]

💥 We don’t just have missing data. We have systems that aren’t designed to recognise patterns even when the information is there💥

A new report from the @educationgovuk explores how child sexual abuse and exploitation is recorded within children’s social care:

https://t.co/R6Wtj0Vj8Q⁠

It highlights something many professionals will recognise:
👉 Risk is often understood over time
👉 But systems are designed to record incidents at a point in time

So what happens?
👉 The data captures what fits the structure…
👉 But we’re still not seeing the pattern.

Now hold that alongside this:
👉 Only 1 in 8 children experiencing sexual abuse are known to authorities

So we are facing two realities at once:
🔹 The majority of children remain completely unseen
🔹 And even within the data we do have, patterns of harm are still being missed

Not because professionals aren’t recognising risk —

But because the system isn’t designed to capture how harm actually develops.

Because exploitation doesn’t arrive as a single incident.

It builds.
Through behaviour.
Through relationships.
Through context.
And that matters.

Because when patterns aren’t visible:
🔹 Risk becomes fragmented
🔹 Insight stays buried in case notes
🔹 Harm is absorbed into broader categories
🔹 Intervention happens later not earlier
👉 And that means opportunities to recognise and prevent harm earlier are missed.

This isn’t just about improving data.
👉 It’s about how decisions are made, how resources are allocated and ultimately, who gets seen.

If we want earlier intervention, we need systems that can recognise patterns not just record incidents.

This is something I explore in my paper:
“Child Sexual Abuse, Data and Structural Invisibility”
https://t.co/Axt3dfBPuu⁠

Because this isn’t just about what is missing from the data…
👉 It’s about how systems, language and policy shape what becomes visible in the first place.

"What is not named is not measured. What is not measured is not funded. What is not funded is not prevented".
- Chris Tuck 2026

The report shows the system isn’t seeing the pattern.

My paper explains why because it was never designed to.

💙 There is love, life and laughter after abuse
💙 Rebuilding you piece by piece
💙 Empowering futures

As we approach our 10-Year Milestone & Impact Event, these are exactly the conversations we need to be having.

Because if we want better outcomes…we need better ways of seeing.

#ChildSexualAbuse
#ChildSexualExploitation
#Safeguarding
#SystemChange
#SurvivorVoice
#DataMatters

@SOB_Org

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

Trauma informed practice is much talked about, but what actually is it and what does it have to do with safeguarding? Check out this weeks Safeguarding Explained from @Kaizen_Safe
https://t.co/sdVgHlOvRf

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

This weeks Friday Thoughts focuses on clergy sexual abuse.
The full article can be found at https://t.co/jKHHsDaGRv

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast"

Safeguarding is not just about policy and compliance, culture is key.

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

Leigh McFarlane, Director of Kaizen Safeguarding, spoke with Niall Donnelly on UTV’s Up Close last night on safeguarding in faith contexts.

Watch here: https://t.co/YmlGehJJzs

Safeguarding must always place victims and survivors first.

[Kaizen Safeguarding @Kaizen_Safe]

Tonight at 10:45pm on UTV - Kaizen Safeguarding Director Leigh McFarlane speaks with Niall Donnelly on Up Close, discussing safeguarding in faith communities; a vital issue across NI, the UK, and beyond.

Watch via UTVX or change ITV location settings to Northern Ireland.