Safeguarding Tips

Safeguarding Tips Conference Summary  

Based on 1977-2023 Mapton and Maptonshire  

‘The Oxchild Report’ 

 

 

1. Everyone should avoid cycling and walking in unpopulated areas after dark 

 

3. If you’re new to an area and work in childcare, avoid and be suspicious of people who are eager to make friends with you until you have fully ‘vetted’ them. 

 

4. If you work with children do not reveal any information to your friends etc about them, as according to government statistics there are up to 850,000 people in England and Wales who are a threat to children, so would benefit from loose mouths. 

 

For working environment where safeguarding isn’t a prerequisite, if you are asked about someone who has applied for a job and they have a ‘chequered history’, it’s probably best to say nothing as information could easily end up in the wrong hands. If they get the job, you can then ‘keep an eye on them’ and help them move forward, everyone can’t keep passing the problem on 

 

Conversely, if you know people who have children who are friends with people that have been prosecuted for crimes against children, it’s not recommended you think they are just friends to “keep an eye on them”  

 

For locals, speak to people from neighbouring areas to see if they have any information that would aid your communities safeguarding 

 

If you are even remotely suspicious of anyone, don’t let your kids sleep over where they reside  

(You don’t want to be telling your kids when they’re older that you had concerns about someone) 

 

If you have genuine concerns about someone’s behaviour DON’T name and shame them publicly, speak to your friends, neighbours, colleagues, and the authorities etc about the information you are concerned about.  

 

 

 Speak to people you know about what their views on safeguarding are - 

As there are some people in the countryside for instant that need their ‘views’ correcting; 

 such as the following: 

“Child abuse doesn’t happen around here it only happens in London” 

“It’s perfectly fine for a 10 year old girl to have her breast area massaged by a man,  

as 10 year old’s don’t have breasts” 

“A 17 year old boy could not possibly be raped by his millionaire father”  

 

After reporting Safeguarding issues to the police, even people not connected to allegations may take out ‘legal proceeding’ in order to keep the areas/family's reputation intact or to protect a perpetrator; threatening those who’ve reported historical and ongoing abuse to retract their claims or their whole family will lose their inheritance etc 

If this or something similar happens call the police straight away as it’s  

BLACKMAIL  

 

 

If possible don’t let children go in public toilets alone, especially at night; but even by day > 

TIP:  

Based on overhearing an actual conversation 

 If a child tells you someone has exposed themselves to them, try saying first of all  

“what a very silly man”. 

Then see if you can locate the perpetrator.  

(Don’t make a scene in front of the child if they seem fine) 

 

Be wary of young people hanging around any public toilets, especially when this is recurring, and mixed aged people go into disabled toilets and cubicles together. 

 

Be wary of hotels who let youngsters frequent disabled toilets after they have been barred. 

 

Be wary of hotels whose manager meets up with (ie) the mother of an overage boy whose been barred, but not any parent of an underage girl who’ve been caught, thrown out and barred from hotels many times -   So letting them continue what they are doing, despite everyone knowing they’re using the disabled toilet together and leaving used condoms on show.  

 

Be wary of scenarios such as when authorities say it’s fine for 13 -15 year old girls to be in disabled toilets with over age boys, and then try to move the conversation on quickly. 

 

Be wary when overage boys caught having sex with underage girls in such places as disabled toilets (and graveyards), say they are allowed to do it because they know the owner. 

 

Be wary of young people who threaten to kill people who’ve stopped them doing whatever they want, wherever they want – they could be part of a grooming network etc if they’ve got that much confidence to be above the law. 

 

Be wary of any adult’s behaviour once an outlet to access youngsters has been exposed/closed - there could be a lot of pent-up frustration, so the person who stopped illegal activities will be targeted by any means possible. 

 

Be wary of hotels etc who have a revolving door approach to dealing with their staff who like children sexually, they’ll just keep swapping staff with other hotels until ‘the heat is off’. 

 

Be wary of hotels etc where most of the managers are not from the local area, especially when there is a huge increase in department managers and staff from different parts of the country when new owners take over. 

When lots of staff from outside the area become employed in a short space of time, be ultra suspicious if these people look very smart and appear overly happy, smiley and sociable.  

These types of people have been known to become very aggressive and devious when their main financial reasons for being there are disrupted and will soon be moved on to the next place. 

 

Be wary of hotel managers etc who deny police attended to an incident involving children, especially when there’s a police report after they’ve have spent two hours with them, including over an hour showing them CCTV, and the incident being dealt with by Restorative Justice. 

Be wary of managers of hotels who despite not being present during an incident, tell the tribunal information that totally contradicts police verified through CCTV evidence. 

 

Be very kind and cautious when there is a lot of young women in a work place that don’t have social media accounts and say nothing or are very vague about their past, especially when someone new arrives from the other end of the country and they great each other like long lost friends, then later that day say when asked that "its the first time they'd met"!

 

Be wary of women who make sure everyone knows about their love of EVERY camp man, it could be a distraction for their other ‘friendships’ with confirmed ‘minor attracted persons’ and animal abusers. 

 

Be wary of women that call someone who is called to reception to stop 12 to 18 year olds having sex in public places a paedophile.

 

Be wary of women who despite being mothers in their late twenties, advertise themselves with their schoolgirl profile pictures and use captions such as ‘Jail Bait’. 

Be wary of women that offer to have babies for men you need to be very wary of who break down emotionally and tell them “they can only get it up to six year old girls”.

  

Be extremely wary of people who make jokes about paedophilia, and those who laugh along. 

 

Be wary of men who can’t stand other men until they find out they have been caught and sacked for having child abuse material on their computer. 

 

Be wary of men who get caught with child abuse and bestiality images, even if they say it is for research or motivational purposes. 

 

Be wary of families who borrow significant sums of money from known paedophilic families, and then take their children and grandchildren to see them as possibly part of the payment. 

 

Be wary of farmers etc who simulate sex with animals in front of children 

 

Be wary of people who laugh and joke along with people about the claims they’re a beastialitist and a paedophile, there’s a high chance its true. 

 

In summary the most important thing to do if you have any interest in safeguarding is not to turn a blind eye to anything you think is suspicious, if you have any concerns speak to the authorities, your family and friends etc. 

Otherwise, it will ‘eat away at you’ 

 Whilst the perpetrators get away with it 

Leaving the next generation to deal with issues you could have stopped!