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Why does it take me to tell the school that something is a safeguarding issue?

Is it because we’re hypersensitive Muslim adoptive parents, forever on alert to every source of potential harm?

Could it be that we’re battered by a decade of Prevent, grooming scandals, knife crime, countylines drug gangs, and teenage extremism?

Or is it our training kicking in, from our days of prospective adoptive parents, or from our working lives in health and social care?

Or is the explanation much more mundane? That these are in fact commonplace concerns, understood by all, and the school is merely failing in its duty of care?

Why does it take me flagging an issue for others to take note, despite months of communication and meeting after meeting?

Whatever happened to duty of care?