Considers the experiences of designated safeguarding staff in primary aged schools (4-11 years). The study used semi-structured interviews to explore with professionals their experiences of "multi-agency" working to safeguard "children", of factors in making decisions around "reporting" concerns to statutory "social work" services and their role in delivering "early help" services in one region of the U.K. Professionals raised concerns about their understanding of decisions made by "social workers", but nevertheless said that these decisions affected their future reporting of "safeguarding" concerns. Professionals raised concern about how current "safeguarding" processes triage concerns around "neglect", and as the effect was cumulative, felt that it could be minimised or overlooked.