Safeguarding
Meet the Safeguarding Team:
Roles & Responsibilities
Key personnel at St Edward's are:
· Safeguard Designated Lead (DSL): Ms S Naz
· Deputy Safeguard Designated Leads: Mr P Underwood, Ms L Ellul
· Children Sexual Exploitation: Ms S Naz
· Prevent Lead: Ms S Naz
· Operation Encompass Lead: Ms S Naz
· Looked After Children Lead: Ms S Naz
· Early Help Lead: Ms S Naz
· Online Safety Lead: Mrs N Middleton
· Child Protection/Safeguarding Governor: Mrs M Jones
The links below provide useful information for our school community to support families and children. There are a number of web links for safeguarding, online safety and parenting information which may be helpful to you. At the bottom of the page there are tabs with information about workshops/courses and organisations that Newham offer.
SAFEGUARDING & PARENTING ADVICE FROM THE NSPCC
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/support-for-parents/
CHILD EXPLOITATION AND ONLINE PROTECTION COMMAND
https://www.ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/
TIK TOK AND ONLINE SAFETY INFORMATION
https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/esafety-news/tik-tok-app-safety-what-parents-need-to-know/
https://parentzone.org.uk/article/tiktok-everything-you-need-know-about-video-production-app
YOUNG MINDS – Fighting for young people’s mental health
https://www.youngminds.org.uk/parent/?acceptcookies
CHILDLINE
FAMILY LIVES
https://www.familylives.org.uk/
ANNA FREUD NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
https://www.annafreud.org/coronavirus-support/support-for-parents-and-carers/
BELIEVE IN CHILDREN – BARNARDO’S
KIDSCAPE
https://www.kidscape.org.uk/advice/advice-for-parents-and-carers/
NEWHAM SUPPORT
https://families.newham.gov.uk/kb5/newham/directory/family.page?familychannel=1
https://families.newham.gov.uk/kb5/newham/directory/localoffer.page?localofferchannel=4
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St Edward’s Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its pupils. We believe that:
· All children have the right to be protected from harm
· Children need to be safe and to feel safe in school
· Children need support which matches their individual needs, including those who may have experienced abuse
· All children have the right to speak freely and voice their values and beliefs
· All children must be encouraged to respect each other’s values and support each other
· All children have the right to be supported to meet their emotional and social needs as well as their educational needs – a happy, healthy sociable child will achieve better educationally
· Schools can and do contribute to the prevention of abuse, victimisation, bullying, exploitation, radicalisation, extreme behaviours, discriminatory views and risk taking behaviours
· All staff and visitors have an important role to play in safeguarding children and protecting them from abuse.
Safeguarding is defined as:
· 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
· Taking action to enable all children to have the best life chances
St Edward’s Catholic Primary school will fulfil their local and national responsibilities as laid out in the following documents: · CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) · Childline Website (www.childline.org.uk) · Keeping Children Safe in Education: Statutory guidance for schools and colleges (DfE Sept 2019) · Mental Health and Behaviour in Schools: Departmental Advice (DfE Nov 2018) · Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges (DfE December 2017 – updated May 2018) · The Children Act 2004 · The Education Act 2002
· The procedures for Newham Safeguarding Children Partnership (https://www.newhamscp.org.uk) · Working together to safeguard children (DfE July 2018 – updated Feb 2019) · Young Minds Website (https://www.youngminds.org.uk) · Band Runner (https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk)
Our Safeguarding policies can be found here
We run workshops throughout the year teaching children how to be safe. Workshops held reinforced important messages how we can keep children safe in and out of school. We also have workshops delivered by external people; some of the areas that have been covered are:
· Online Safety
· Cyber Bullying
· Knife Crime
· The Prevent Strategy
· NSPCC – Speak Out and Stay Safe, Let’s Talk Pants
We also educate pupils about online safety through our Computing programme of study ‘Hector’s World.’ More information about this can be found on our online safety page.
Operation Encompass:
This operation is a national partnership between all schools, families and the Police. The intention is that all parties will be informed immediately of any reported domestic abuse. The reason for this relates directly to the impact that domestic abuse has upon the success of young people in education. Children can be victims of domestic abuse when they are directly targeted for violence/abuse or if they are accidentally assaulted in an incident with others.
Children can also be seriously affected by witnessing domestic abuse. If the Police are made aware of an incident of domestic abuse they will notify the school by 11am of the following morning. The school will then decide the appropriate support that is required for the student. The information will be shared with the appropriate members of staff.
The designated lead at St Edward’s for Operation Encompass is Ms S Naz.
Click here to access Operation Encompass website https://www.operationencompass.org