In this episode of my What a DSL Can Learn From podcast, we explore how the volcanologist's discipline of monitoring active risk continuously, recognising that escalation follows patterns, and preparing rather than simply predicting offers powerful lessons for safeguarding leadership.

When a volcano erupts, the headlines call it sudden. The volcanologist knows it never really is the tremors, the signals, the build-up were already there for those paying attention.

Safeguarding crises follow the same pattern. Many are not unpredictable, they are unacted-on. Learning to collate signals across staff, track cumulative concerns that seem minor in isolation, understand your escalation thresholds, and build a system that is always monitoring rather than occasionally checking could be what stands between a manageable concern and a serious incident.

The question to carry forward: what safeguarding signals are currently present in your setting, that might indicate escalation if you do not act now?

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