Here's something that sounds wrong until you think about it: a good lifeguard isn't watching you.

They're scanning. Constantly. Left to right, near to far, surface to depth. The moment they fix their attention on one swimmer they've already missed something else.

Sound familiar?

In this episode of What a DSL Can Learn From... we explore what lifeguard training reveals about the way we pay attention in safeguarding. The danger of the high-profile case that consumes all your bandwidth. The quiet student who slips under the radar precisely because they're not making any noise. The difference between a DSL who responds to incidents and one who prevents them.

Because drowning is almost always silent. And so is the thing you're about to miss.

One question to carry into your week: Where is your safeguarding attention currently fixed and what might you be missing because of it?