Safeguarding & eSafety

The school aims to ensure that:

  • Appropriate action is taken in a timely manner to safeguard and promote children’s welfare
  • All staff are aware of their statutory responsibilities with respect to safeguarding
  • Staff are properly trained in recognising and reporting safeguarding issues
Key Safeguarding Principles Safeguarding Leaders

 

 

 

E-Safety

 

Our approach to e-safety is based on addressing the following categories of risk:

  • Content – being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful content, such as pornography, fake news, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, anti-Semitism, radicalisation and extremism
  • Contact – being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users, such as peer-to-peer pressure, commercial advertising and adults posing as children or young adults with the intention to exploit them
  • Conduct – personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm, such as making, sending and receiving explicit images, sharing other explicit images and online bullying
  • Commerce – risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and/or financial scam

The school uses SENSO, which monitors all messages, inspects images for visual threats and flags keyword algorithms.

The school runs termly internet filtering and monitoring tests (SWGfL) and liaises with eduthing (IT Services for Education) to ensure platforms in school are secure and comply with UK statutory safeguarding duties, centred on Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), the DfE’s online safety guidance and emerging duties linked to the Online Safety Act and Ofsted expectations.

Staff sign an Acceptable User Agreement regarding the use of electronic devices in school, including personal mobile devices.

Social Media Risks

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Parent Guardian Online Radicalisation Information and Support