Safeguarding

REPORT IT

Please use this google form to anonymously (if you wish) report any concern (such as bullying) you have about yourself or another student. This will then be picked up by a member of the pastoral team and actioned immediately.

This form is checked during school hours only.

Early Help

Early Help is the extra support your family can get if you need it. It may be that you want to prevent a problem, or change things for your family before the problem becomes more serious.

It is not a specific service or team, it’s an approach that brings together people from a range of services and teams who will work together with your whole family to help improve the situation for everyone.

It can offer support to families from pre-birth to adolescents with all sorts of issues from parenting, employment and school attendance to emotional wellbeing or anti-social behaviour.

For more details visit: https://www.plymouthonlinedirectory.com/article/1889/Early-Help-Assessment-Tool

Childline

​Childline is a private and confidential service for children and young people up to the age of 19. Childline counsellors are trained staff and volunteers who all have experience of listening and talking to children and young  people.

Other useful Contacts

• Children who run away or go missing from home or care
• Provision of accommodation for 16 and 17 year olds who may be homeless and/or require accommodation 

• Statistics: Child Death Reviews
• Statistics: Children in need

NSPCC Share Aware:

NSPCC have teamed up with O2 to help parents untangle the web and teach their children to be Share Aware.

Babcock Quickguides:

​Babcock One Minute Guides are quick and easy to access safeguarding reference guides that can be used to cascade information to staff, Governors and volunteers as part of their regular safeguarding training.

Abuse:

• What to do if you suspect a child a child is being abused (DFE Advice)
• Domestic Abuse: Various Information/Guidance (Home Office)
• Faith Based abuse: National Action Plan (DFE Advice)
• Relationship Abuse: Disrespect Nobody (Home Office Website)

Bullying:

• Preventing Bullying including cyberbullying (DFE Advice)

Children and the courts:

• Advice for 5-11 year old witnesses in criminal courts (MOJ Advice)
• Advice for 12-17 year old witnesses in criminal courts (MOJ Advice)

Children missing from Education, home or care:

• Children missing education (DFE statutory guidance)
• Children missing from home or care (DFE statutory guidance)
• Children and adults missing strategy (Home office strategy)

Children with Family Members in prison:

• National information centre on children of offenders

Child Exploitation:

• County Lines: Criminal exploitation of children and vulnerable adults (Home office guidance)
• Child Sexual Exploitation: Guide for practitioners (DFE)
• Trafficking: Safeguarding Children (DFE and HO Guidance)

Drugs:

• Drugs: Advice for schools (DFE ACPO Guidance)
• Drugs strategy 2017 (Home office strategy)
• Information and advice on drugs (Talk to frank)

‘Honour Based Violence’:

• Female genital mutilation: Information and Resources (Home Office)
• Female genital mutilation: Multi agency statutory guidance (DFE, DH and HO statutory guidance)
• Forced Marriage: Information and practice guidelines (Foreign commonwealth office and home office)

Health and Wellbeing:

• Fabricated or Induced illness: Safeguarding Children (DE, Department for Health and Home office)
• Rise above: Free PSHE Resources on health, wellbeing and resilience (Public Health England)
• Medical Conditions: Supporting Pupils at school (DFE Statutory guidance)
• Mental health and behaviour (DFE Advice)

Homelessness:

• Homelessness: How local authorities should exercise their functions (HCLG)

Online:

• Sexting: Responding to incidents and safeguarding children (UK Council for child internet safety)
• CEOP (Child exploitation and online protection command)
• Child International
• Digizen
• Internet Matters.org
• UK safer internet centre
• Think you Know
• UK Council for internet safety

Private Fostering:

• Private fostering: Local authorities (DFE statutory guidance)

Radicalisation:

• Prevent duty guidance (Home office guidance)
• Prevent duty advice for schools (DFE Advice)
• Educate against hate website (DFE and Home office)

Suicide:

• Ripple Suicide prevention
• Papyrus UK suicide prevention
• Samaritans

Safety:

• Child Accident prevention trust

Violence:

• Gangs and Youth Violence: For schools and colleges (Home office advice)
• Ending violence against women and girls 2016-2020 Strategy (Home office strategy)
• Violence against women and girls: National statement of expectation for victims (Home office guidance)
• Sexual Violence and Sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges (DFE advice)
• Serious violence strategy (Home office strategy)

Plymouth Mash (Gateway)

If you are a member of the public and you’re worried about a child or young person or think they’re being abused, call 01752 668000 or email [email protected] or outside of normal working hours call Plymouth Out of Hours Service on 01752 346984. Plymouth Gateway is made up of multi-agency professionals who can give you advice, information and support.

http://www.plymouthscb.co.uk/making-a-referral/

The Gateway service is made up of multi-agency professionals who can give you advice, information and support. You can also contact the NSPCC if you want to talk to someone about your concerns and get advice.

The Governing Body takes seriously its responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, and to work together with other agencies to ensure adequate arrangements within our school to identify, assess and support those children who are suffering harm.

OUR SAFEGUARDING TEAM

We recognise that all staff and governors have a full and active part to play in protecting our students from harm, and that the welfare of the children is our paramount concern. All staff believe that our school should provide a caring, positive, safe and stimulating environment that promotes the social, physical and moral development of the individual child.

Our Academy procedures for safeguarding children are in line with Plymouth Local Authority and Plymouth City Council’s Child Protection Procedures, “Working Together to Safeguard Children.”

ASAP has a Designated Person for child protection who has undertaken Basic Child Protection training delivered through the Plymouth Area Child Protection Committee, and who undertakes other training as recommended by the LA every two years. There are also members of staff who will act in the Designated Person’s absence who have also received basic multi-agency training, and who will have been briefed in the role. All members of staff, volunteers and governors know how to respond to a student who discloses abuse, and the procedure to be followed by appropriately sharing a concern of possible abuse or a disclosure of abuse.

ASAP will seek to ensure the suitability of adults working with children on the Academy site at any time. This includes making community users organising activities for children aware of and understanding the need for compliance with the Academy’s child protection guidelines and procedures and our selection and recruitment policy includes all appropriate checks on staff suitability including Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau checks.

The Academy’s responsibilities in regard to child protection procedures are published in the Academy’s Child Protection Policy (available on request and on our policies page) and are referred to in our home Academy agreement.

The safeguarding policy can be found on the policies page.  Revised ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ Statutory Guidance