Child Safety Policy
We ask other organizations to take child safety seriously. This is what that looks like for us.
Our commitment
Danger Aware exists to keep children safe from abuse and grooming. Everyone acting for us — staff, volunteers, contractors, trustees — shares responsibility for that. The welfare of a child comes before the reputation of this organization, and before the convenience of any adult, including us.
Safe by design
The most reliable safeguard is a system that cannot be misused in the first place. So the following are architectural facts about this site, not policies someone has to remember to enforce:
- Children have no accounts. There is no child sign-up, anywhere. Every resource opens without one.
- We collect nothing from children. No name, age, school, location or photograph is ever requested from a child.
- There is no way to contact a child through this site. No comments, no profiles, no direct messages, no chat, no forum.
- Nothing a child types leaves their device. The reflective questions inside our stories are for them alone; the answers are not sent to us.
- No behavioural tracking or advertising. No ad network is permitted on this site, at any price.
Content review
Every book, comic, video, coloring page and article is reviewed before it is published, and checked against the age band it is labelled for. Reviewers look for three things in particular: that it teaches without frightening, that it never implies abuse is a child’s fault, and that it always ends with telling a trusted adult.
Material submitted from outside — including stories sent through Share Your Story — is read by a person before it goes anywhere near the site. Nothing is auto-published. We remove any identifying detail of a real child before publication, and we decline anything that could identify a survivor.
People
- Anyone whose role involves direct contact with children is screened before they start, to the standard their role and state require.
- Everyone acting for us is briefed on recognising and reporting concerns, and on this policy, before they begin.
- Administrative access to our systems is granted by name, limited to what the role needs, and removed when the role ends.
- No one acting for us may contact a child privately, or arrange to be alone with a child, in connection with our work.
Raising a concern
If a child is in immediate danger, call 911. To report suspected abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline on 1-800-422-4453 — free, confidential, 24 hours a day. Our reporting page has the full list.
To raise a concern about this organization, about someone acting for us, or about something published on this site:
You can also use the contact form. Concerns are taken seriously, acknowledged, and acted on — and reported to the proper authorities where they need to be. We do not require you to be certain, and we do not require you to give your name.
No one who raises a concern in good faith will be penalised for it, whatever the outcome of the investigation.
When something goes wrong
If material on this site is found to be harmful, inaccurate, or wrong for the age it is labelled for, we take it down first and investigate afterwards. Where an incident involves a possible criminal offence, we report it to the authorities rather than handling it internally.
Review
This policy is reviewed at least once a year, and immediately after any incident. It was last reviewed in September 2026.