Child Safeguarding in the UK Overseas Territories Through this project DFID will build on the success of the previous projects to further support child safeguarding in the OTs. The work we have supported so far has improved political will and a collective OT government voice on the issue: at the Joint Ministerial Council (JMC) of the OT Governments in 2012, territory leaders signed a joint Communiqué that included the commitment “to improve strategies to ensure the safeguarding of children, based on a strong belief in zero tolerance to child abuse in whatever form it comes”. This commitment from OT leaders provides a firm basis on which to build further child safeguarding progress in the OTs.