This is a "cut & paste" from a child murder news report, do the "words" sound familiar ? "The government announced new child protection guidelines for teachers in March, which it has just finished a consultation on. It plans to reduce its original 120-page Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education document, originally published in 2007, to about 30 pages. The NASUWT said this reduction in guidelines would leave schools and teachers "extremely exposed". Ms Keates said: "Since 2010, when the government reduced red tape in the child protection system, a number of things have hit the floor that were there to protect not only children but teachers as well. "Detailed guidance is being replaced with lines like 'You should make sure people are appropriately trained' without giving any detail about what that training should be. "If something goes wrong the government can say 'We told you people should be appropriately trained' but they've taken away all the detail of what 'appropriate' is." A spokesman for the Department of Education said teachers needed "to use their professional judgment to make common sense decisions to protect children"