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Concise, evidence-informed briefings that translate safeguarding learning into practical reflection and action.
Short, accessible and actionable.
Created for professionals, teams and multi-agency partnerships seeking a clear way to discuss learning, strengthen professional curiosity and improve outcomes.
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What the learning means for day-to-day safeguarding work.
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EVIDENCE-INFORMED BRIEFING · 2 PAGES · 2026
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Learning from Preventable Deaths in Mental Health Care
A concise briefing translating learning from four preventable deaths into six recurring system conditions and a practical safer-care assurance pathway.
Available now · No photographs reproducedPRACTICE GUIDE · 1 PAGE · 2026
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Identification, Enquiry and Response to Domestic Abuse
A practical guide to recognising indicators, asking safely, responding to disclosure and identifying high-risk concerns.
Available nowPRACTICE GUIDE · 1 PAGE · 2026
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Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse
Practical guidance on safe enquiry, professional responses, referral options, accountability and escalation.
Available nowPRACTICE BRIEFING · 3 PAGES · 2026
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Domestic Abuse, Motherhood and the Fear of Child Removal
Practice learning on safe enquiry, avoiding mother-blaming, recognising perpetrators' use of child-removal threats and supporting mothers after removal.
Available now · PS Safeguarding LtdPRACTICE BRIEFING · 3 PAGES · 2026
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Domestic Abuse Is Everyone's Safeguarding Business
Learning for substance use services and other non-statutory organisations on safe enquiry, information sharing, persistent engagement and shared responsibility.
Available now · PS Safeguarding LtdPRACTICE BRIEFING · 1 PAGE · UPDATED 2026
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Recognising Cumulative Harm
A practical guide to connecting repeated concerns, changing circumstances and escalation across time, using chronology and shared multi-agency formulation.
Available now · Protected PDFIMPROVEMENT GUIDE · 1 PAGE · 2026
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Learning from a Review or Thematic Analysis
A clear route from findings to transferable learning, practical action, implementation assurance and evidence of sustained impact.
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NEW COLLECTION · 25 ONE-PAGE BRIEFINGS · 2026
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Anonymised learning from published reviews
Transferable learning from completed statutory reviews, presented without case names, photographs, locations, exact dates or distinctive personal details.
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Coercive Control and Suicide Risk
Connecting patterns of control, entrapment, emotional distress and suicide risk.
Open briefing ↗Recognising Male Victims and Suicide Risk
Challenging gendered assumptions and creating safer opportunities for disclosure.
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Bringing dispersed warning signs together across mental health and safeguarding contacts.
Open briefing ↗Escalating Family Risk and Older Adults
Recognising familial abuse, dependency and risk to identifiable others.
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Understanding how adversity, traumatic loss and coercion can combine over time.
Open briefing ↗Identifying the Primary Victim in Complex Relationships
Looking beyond incident counts to fear, coercion, impact and relative power.
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Testing assumptions, retaining risk ownership and escalating disagreement constructively.
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Hearing the person beyond diagnosis and adapting support around barriers to engagement.
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Using independent interpretation and hearing the older person privately.
Open briefing ↗Psychosis, Family Safety and Carer Involvement
Considering identifiable others, carer knowledge and clear crisis planning.
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Exploring relational pressures through culturally informed, person-centred practice.
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Coordinating recovery, legal protection, perpetrator accountability and victim safety.
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Looking beyond apparent stability and bringing children and family safety into view.
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Understanding alcohol use, withdrawal from support and suicide risk in context.
Stalking, Strangulation and Cross-Boundary Risk
Escalating high-risk indicators and agreeing ownership across organisational boundaries.
Open briefing ↗Male Victims, Mental Health and Substance Use
Ensuring victimisation is not obscured by distress, diagnosis or substance use.
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Using chronology and formulation to connect repeated crisis contacts and changing risk.
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Treating housing and economic hardship as safeguarding concerns and adapting access.
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Looking beyond alcohol use to relational safety, care needs and restricted choices.
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Maintaining prevention, oversight and escalation when services or routines change.
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Balancing autonomy, prevention and protection through persistent whole-person support.
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Replacing divided pathways with one shared formulation, plan and escalation route.
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Strengthening provider accountability, lived-experience evidence and practice assurance.
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Building coordinated discharge plans, contingencies and appropriate carer support.
Open briefing ↗Mental Health Crisis, Supported Living and Emergency Response
Clarifying emergency thresholds, accessible crisis plans and escalation responsibilities.
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Resources support professional learning and reflective practice. They do not replace statutory guidance, organisational policy, legal advice or case-specific professional judgement.
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