Mr Beaty, Mrs Evans and Mrs Clark are the staff members responsible for Safeguarding, including Child Protection, in this school.
Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm.
Safeguarding means:
Child protection is part of the safeguarding process. It focuses on protecting individual children identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. This includes child protection procedures which detail how to respond to concerns about a child.
Safeguarding children and child protection guidance and legislation applies to all children up to the age of 18.
Safeguarding has been defined by the government as: the process involved in protecting kids from neglect and abuse – stopping their development and health from being impaired. Also insuring that they grow up in a safe environment too which allows them opportunities to progress and develop to enter adulthood effectively.
People sometimes wonder what the difference is between the terms safeguarding and child protection.
In practice, Safeguarding is the policies and practices that schools and Governing Bodies employ to keep children safe and promote their well-being. This means everything from security of the buildings, to the safe recruitment of staff and everything in between. This diagram sets out what Safeguarding means in schools:
As you can see, Child Protection is one aspect of Safeguarding. Child Protection is a term used to describe the activity that is undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harm.
In short, EVERYBODY, any person who has contact with a child has a responsibility to keep that child safe from harm.
Within a school setting there is a designated team of staff who hold the overall responsibilty for safeguarding within school.
Below you will find links to websites that contain information relating to various aspects of safeguarding along with documents that contain information and contact details that you may find useful
Operation Encompass
On 21st January 2019 Tameside implemented a borough wide project that will run jointly between schools and Greater Manchester Police. This project is called Operation Encompass. It aims to support children who are affected by domestic violence by ensuring that their school is informed. This allows the school to support the children. Aldwyn Primary School are involved in the project. If you have any other questions about this project, please do not hesitate to contact school.
Safeguarding your child
As parents, you want to make sure that your children develop healthily and thrive. We're here to help you with advice on how you can build strong relationships with your children and keep them safe. Here are some resources for helping parents to keep their children safe, advice for parents on keeping children safe out of school, at home and online, when using the internet, social networking websites and playing online games, help and advice for creating a safe and nurturing environment for your children.
For guidance, further details can be found from:
General safe guarding support and information
https://www.tamesidesafeguardingchildren.org.uk/parentsandcarers.aspx
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/
Staying Safe Online
www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/topics/stay-safe
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/share-aware/
https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/2017/tips-and-advice-parents-and-carers
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
Awareness raising of Child Sexual Exploitation
Bullying
https://www.bullying.co.uk/advice-for-parents/
Emotional Wellbeing and Child and Adolescent Mental Health
www.youngminds.org.uk/for_parents/parent
Healthy Living
http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life/Pages/why-change-for-life.aspx
Female Genital Mutilation
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect/female-genital-mutilation-fgm/
Radicalisation
(The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is a charity campaigning and working in child protection in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands).
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Dear Parents & Carers,
Many thank for all the responses to our questionnaire (15% response): they do give a good idea of where we stand and I think it was a really positive exercise.
Key findings:
Your child is uploading video to You Tube. Is this a good idea?
7% - yes: 60% - no 33% - not sure.
From the surveys, I think the next steps are:
A great web site for advice and tips is www.thinkuknow.co.uk
Here is a link to our E-safety policy. Have you got any issues that you think we need to add or deal with in a different way? Let us know.
If you do need advice or have concerns on any issue regarding E-safety, please feel free to send me an email (via admin@aldwyn.tameside.sch.uk) or send a note into school.
Many thanks everyone and keep safe,
Mr. Bonsall
Staying safe on the internet is a hard task for adults let alone children who are not as tech savvy and may have an over active clicky finger. One wrong click on an embedded link or a badly worded google search can lead to pages that children should not be viewing.
From porn to radicalisation, the internet can be a minefield of page after page, picture after picture of inappropriate content for children.
Knowledge is key when it comes to keeping your child safe online, teach your child:
Mental health problems cause distress to individuals and those who care for them. Overall, it is estimated that one in ten children and young people have a diagnosable mental disorder – the equivalent of three pupils in every classroom across the country . Therefore schools are a vital part of a wider systems approach to promoting positive mental well-being and preventing mental illness in children and young people.
Here at Aldwyn we take Mental Health very seriously, we firmly believe that no-one should feel ashamed to talk about their mental health and we actively encourage our pupils and staff to speak out if they need to.