Why is innovation needed in safeguarding?

Young people are experiencing harm in new and complex contexts.

Risk is no longer confined to the home or school. It occurs in peer groups, online spaces, community settings, and public places—all areas that traditional safeguarding systems were never designed to monitor or respond to.

Many young people don’t trust safeguarding professionals to listen, protect, or act without consequences. Reporting mechanisms are often bureaucratic, intimidating, and fail to respect their need for anonymity, autonomy, and agency.

Despite their vital role in early intervention, detached youth workers and outreach teams lack a secure, structured way to record and extract  detached youth work data. Current systems like Mosaic or MyConcern are not built for this type of real-time, community-focused intelligence.

SafeShout bridges this gap with tools that speak young people’s language—confidential, accessible, and youth-led—while giving professionals actionable data to prevent harm, not just respond to it. It reframes safeguarding as something done with young people, not just to them.

Innovation like SafeShout enables services to become proactive, trauma-informed, and locally intelligent, while giving young people the power to shape the systems designed to protect them.

SafeShout works even without internet.
Young people can submit safeguarding concerns offline—the app will securely store the report and automatically send it once a connection is restored.

This feature helps reduce digital exclusion, ensuring access for young people in areas with poor signal, limited data, or no Wi-Fi.

We’re also exploring local partnerships to support data access for those who need it most.