Safeguarding and Child Protection
BackThe Designated Safeguarding Lead is Mrs C Clarke - [email protected] or contact us by phone on 020 8546 7388.
Our Safeguarding policy can be found on our Policies page
Our Safeguarding Governor is Nick Jay - [email protected]
LADO
Achieving for Children which provides social care for children in Kingston and Richmond has a LADO whose responsibility is to management oversight of cases where an allegation has been made against an adult working with children. The LADO will provide employers with advice and guidance to make sure that any allegation is dealt with fairly and quickly, ensuring that the child is protected effectively.
Find out more about the role of the LADO.
Contact
The LADO can be contacted by:
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 07774 332675
- Online: Submit LADO referral form
Early Help
Early help aims to identify families that need help early, so that the right services can work together with families to provide the right support before problems become more complex. Early help is about broadly supporting children and young people aged 0 to 19 years and their families, whenever these challenges emerge.
The school is keen to work closely with families and professionals in order to get the right help and support as early as possible.
If your family are facing challenges and would like further support, please speak to a member of our DSL team.
Useful Links
Childline - Free and Confidential
Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre
Working Together To Safeguard Children
Staying Safe Online
We teach the children all the way from Nursery upwards about how to stay safe and behave safely online. Please help your child by having these conversations at home too.
LGfL- DigiSafe has created the 'Undressed' resource for young children, parents and professionals about the issue of sharing inappropriate information online. This catchy song can be a helpful way into a conversation about online information sharing.
Watch Jessie & Friends: online safety education for 4-7 year olds
This series of three animations aims to give 4-7 year olds knowledge, skills and confidence to help them respond safely to risks they may encounter online.
There is also parent information on the website to support parents in helping to promote online safety. Find all the videos here. https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/jessie-and-friends-videos/
Talking About Consent
It is essential that we start to teach children about consent as, with so many things, habits established in childhood will often be the most enduring.
The RSHE curriculum (DfE, 2019) states that in relationships education in primary school: “Pupils should be taught how to take turns, how to treat each other with kindness, consideration and respect, the importance of honesty and truthfulness, permission-seeking and giving, and the concept of personal privacy.
“Establishing personal space and boundaries, showing respect and understanding the differences between appropriate and inappropriate or unsafe physical, and other, contact – these are the forerunners of teaching about consent, which takes place at secondary.”
The key at this age is to establish the idea of boundaries and consent in the broadest possible way with younger students.
We focus on this in school and wanted to share some resources to support talking about consent at home:https://www.aardman.com/latest-news/aardman-consent-film-opcc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCOtXLwGLLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6KXMXDZFGg
