What does safety/security feel like in the worlds of children and young people? Safety and security are words that are often used in relation to children and young people (think ‘child safety’, ‘attachment security’, ‘emotional security’, and so on) and often in the context of children who have experienced harm, or are at risk of harm, through adults’ violence, abuse, indifference or neglect. Safety and security are invoked in relation to young people who have caused harm or used violence, too, in terms of ‘public safety’, ‘community safety’, or physical, procedural and relational security in custodial settings. Similarly, principles of safety and security are central to the overarching philosophy and purpose and everyday practices of secure mental health and welfare settings. The language of safety and security is ubiquitous, yet critical engagement with these concepts – specifically in youth and child contexts – is scarce. Crucially, the perspectives of children and young people themselves are frequently forgotten, sidelined, disregarded, overlooked. In the worlds of children and young people, what does safety feel like? How is security experienced? What sense do these concepts hold? For adults, in terms of their relations to/with children, what does the use of safety and security language conceal and reveal, limit and foreclose, open and make possible? This conversation aims to create space for thinking through these questions, and for imagining safety/security otherwise