A qualitative evaluation of community nurses’ experiences of child safeguarding supervision"

Safeguarding supervision was viewed as a child-focused, helpful activity that has led to practice improvements. • Negative comments were in the minority and related to perceptions of its intrusive and punitive nature, the time involved and competing priorities. • Improvements advocated were safeguarding supervision should include discussion about children whose care is problematic but who are not the subject to formal child protection proceedings