Safeguarding legislation and government guidance says that safeguarding means:
Protecting children from maltreatment, preventing impairment of children’s health or development, ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.
Child Protection: is part of safeguarding and promoting student welfare. It involves measures and structures designed to prevent and respond to significant harm, abuse, exploitation and neglect.
Safeguarding includes: Child Protection, Health Care Plans, Health and Safety, Site Security, Safety on school trips and visits, Safer recruitment – School Central Record & DBS checks, online safety and associated issues, anti-bullying work, children’s & learner’s health, mental health and emotional well-being and so much more.
We have a suite of policies relevant to safeguarding. Here is a link to our statutory information including safeguarding and online safety policies.
- Keep an eye on your child’s internet use including email and social media (Facebook, Snapchat, etc)
- Check the history folder of your internet browser to check what sites have been accessed
- Consider purchasing filter software or see if your ISP (BT, Sky, Talk Talk, etc) provide their own
- Protect your computer with firewall/antivirus software
Here are some useful links for parents:
NSPCC: Provides advice on a range of topics affecting children, including online safety.
Please see advice on protecting children from specific online harms.
Childnet: Offers a toolkit to support parents and carers of children of any age to start discussions about their online life, to set boundaries around online behaviour and technology use, and to find out where to get more help and support.
UK Safer Internet Centre: Contains tips, advice, guides and resources to help keep your child safe online
All staff have been trained on how to report safeguarding and technical concerns, such as if:
- They witness or suspect unsuitable material has been accessed
- They are able to access unsuitable material
- They are teaching topics that could create unusual activity on the filtering logs
- There is a failure in the software or an abuse of the system
- There are perceived unreasonable restrictions that affect teaching and learning or administrative tasks
- They notice abbreviations or misspellings that allow access to restricted material
- Never post your personal information, such as a mobile phone number, home address, or the name of your school
- Be aware that information you give out through social networking sites, instant messages, emails and blogs could put you at risk of bullying or harassment
- Never meet in person with anyone you first “met” online. Some people may not be who they say they are
- Remember that posting information about your friends could put them at risk
- Never respond to harassing or rude texts, messages and emails. Delete any unwanted messages or friends who continuously leave inappropriate comments
- Never give out your password to anyone other than your parent or carer
- If you would not say something to another person’s face, do not post it online!
- Only add people as friends to your site if you know them in real life
- Think before posting your photos. DO NOT post or send semi-nude or nude pictures of yourself or anyone else. Personal photos should not have revealing information such as school names or location
- Use the privacy settings of the social networking sites
Here are some useful links for students:
CEOP: Contains a lot of useful information about internet safety, from advice on reporting online sexual harassment, to how to manage friendships online.
Childline: Provides clear information about issues such as online scamming, privacy, and staying safe whilst online gaming. (You can also call them for free on 0800 1111 for advice.)
For Further information see our health and wellbeing page
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