In this episode of my What a DSL Can Learn From podcast, we explore how the glaciologist's discipline of tracking slow-moving change, recognising what becomes dangerously normalised, and acting before damage becomes irreversible offers powerful lessons for safeguarding leadership.

A glacier doesn't collapse overnight, it retreats millimetre by millimetre until the day the damage is suddenly visible. But the glaciologist knows the crisis began years before anyone noticed. Safeguarding risk works in exactly the same way.

Gradual withdrawal, slow wellbeing decline, incremental behavioural shifts, these are the early signals that get absorbed into the background noise of school life until they can no longer be ignored.

Learning to track patterns over time, question what has become normalised, and act on early signals before they become irreversible could be the most important shift your safeguarding culture makes. The question to carry forward: what slow-moving safeguarding change might be happening right now, that you are not yet taking seriously enough?

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