Safeguarding

Safeguarding

The school's Safeguarding officers are: Mrs B Nesbit, Ms C McFadden, Ms M Courtney, Mr J Ascroft &

Miss S Wainwright

Keeping children safe and happy is at the heart of everything we do at Holy Family Catholic Primary School. We recognise that all staff, including volunteers, have a full and active part to play in protecting our pupils from harm. We believe that our school should provide a caring, positive safe and stimulating environment, which promotes the social, physical and moral development of every child and therefore we take safeguarding extremely seriously whilst retaining a balanced and human approach.

We have excellent recruitment procedures – every member of staff has full checks and up to date references, as do visiting artists, regular volunteers, supply teachers and governors – and all staff receive appropriate training at regular intervals.

We have policies and practices that focus on ensuring the health and well-being of the children, for example: risk assessments before every class trip, a regularly updated health and safety policy and staff presence at the school entrance at the start and end of every day.

We have well-established ways of monitoring and responding to incidents of concern, for example: unexplained absences, difficult behaviour and significant changes in physical or emotional appearance.

Nothing is more important to us than the safety and welfare of our pupils. We take rigorous steps to ensure that children stay safe and do not come to any harm. We work closely with parents/carers and a range of professional agencies in order to secure this.

Useful links for parents/carers:

Prevent is part of the Government's strategy to address terrorism. The main aim of Prevent is to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Prevent focusses on all forms of terrorist threats. The Goverment's Prevent strategy can be found at the following address: www.homeoffice.gov.uk

How can you help?

It is important that we all work together, so that we can protect our communities. There are many ways you can help:

Get in touch with your local neighbourhood or Prevent team for advice and support, if you are worried about someone you know who you believe may be vulnerable to radicalisation;
You can speak to your local officers about helping run community events to bring people from different communities together;

Holy Family's Prevent Strategy

All school are required by law to teach a broad and balanced curriculum which promotes the spiritual, moral and cultural development of children and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life.

We aim to protect children from harm and to ensure that they are taught in a waythat is consistent with the law and British Values. To this end, it acts to:

Raise Awareness
Provide information
Enable learners to make a positive contribution
Safeguarding young people

At Holy Family, pupils participate in a curriculum that promotes active learning and questioning enables the pupils to explore social and emotional aspects of learning throughout the curriculum.

We celebrate our own uniqueness and challenge prejudice of any kind.

We are working in partnership with our Family of Catholic schools to further improve our work through SMSC.

Extremism

Something which is clearly not part of any British or European value is extremism. It is important to remember that whilst the threat from so-called Islamic State has been a focus in the Counter Terrorism and Security Act, the Prevent Duty is clear that extremism of all kinds should be tackled too. In England, far right groups such as Britain First and the English Defence League need to be tackled, too. Extremism is not a new topic in education, but schools have a relatively new statutory duty to pay “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”.

Read our guide for parents here – it could be a good way to prepare yourself when supporting your child in any difficult discussions.

Read the government’s Prevent duty guidance and its guidance for schools.

How can families help with keeping children safe?

Make sure all addresses and contact numbers are up to date;
If someone different is picking your child up, please let us know;
Be at school on time every day;
Notify the school about your child’s absence – unexplained absences are a key trigger for concern;

Keeping Safe online

Holy Family Catholic Primary School believes that online safety (e-safety) is an essential element of safeguarding children and adults in the digital world, when using technology such as computers, mobile phones or game consoles.

The School identifies that the internet and information communication technologies are an important part of everyday life so children must be supported to be able to learn how to develop strategies to manage and respond to risk so they can be empowered to build resilience online.
The school has a duty to provide the school community with quality Internet access to raise education standards, promote student achievement, support professional work of staff and enhance the schools management functions. The school also identifies that with this there is a clear duty to ensure that children are protected from potential harm online.
To ensure compliance with Article 8 of the General Data Protection Regulation and Section 9 of the Data Protection Act.

Staying Safe Online

1) Don't post any personal information online-like your address, email address or mobile phone number

2) Think carefully before posting pictures or videos of yourself. Once you've put a picture of yourself most people can see it and may be able to download it, it's not just yours anymore.

3) Keep your privacy settings as high as possible

4) Never give out your passwords

5) Don't befriend people you don't know

6) Don't meet up with people you've met online. Speak to your parent or carer about people suggesting you do

7) Remember that not everyone online is who they say they are

8) Think carefully about what you say before you post something online

9) Respect other people's views, even if you don't agree with someone else's view doesn't mean you need to be rude.

10) If you see something online that makes you feel uncomfortable, unsafe or worried: leave the website, turn off the computer if you want and tell a trusted adult immediately.

Are you worried about online abuse or the way someone has been communicating with you online?

Contact the Child Exploitation and Online Protection command

https://www.ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/What-happens-when-I-make-a-report-YP/

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