Online Safety and Safeguarding KCSIE - Keeping Children Safe in Education - 2016 Penny Patterson

Safeguarding Children 1. Safeguarding children - the action we take to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm - is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play. 2. Safeguarding is defined as: - protecting children from maltreatment; - preventing impairment of children's health or development; - ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and - taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes Working Together to Safeguard Children, revised edition, HM Government, 2006, 2010, 2013 and 2015 Children Act 2004 Keeping Children Safe in Education 2016

Love, affection, belonging Protection from violence and harm Maslow's hierarchy of needs Fulfilling potential Esteem needs Love, affection, belonging Protection from violence and harm Food, water, sleep

Love, affection, belonging Protection from violence and harm Maslow's hierarchy of needs Fulfilling potential Esteem needs Love, affection, belonging Protection from violence and harm Food, water, sleep

School staff must have training ‘at least annually’ All school staff must read part 1 of ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education 2016’ And SLT must support staff in understanding it School staff must have training ‘at least annually’

Legal reporting responsibilities: Sexual abuse and sexual exploitation Prevent – Radicalisation and Extremism FGM – Female Genital Mutilation

CSE - Child Sexual Exploitation Child Sexual Abuse School staff have a duty to report children who may be sexually abused or at risk of sexual abuse. This includes sexual exploitation.

Radicalisation and Extremism: Prevent Duty Radicalisation and Extremism: School staff have a duty to prevent children from being radicalised. Schools have three themes to help protect children: - Anti - propaganda / digital literacy (all) - Counter narrative (some) - Report (few)

Female Genital Mutilation FGM Female Genital Mutilation Duty to report girls who may have undergone FGM or who may be at risk of FGM If you receive a disclosure of FGM you must go to straight to the DSL and then, together, to the police/MASH.

Safeguarding is not just about protecting children from deliberate harm It includes the following issues for schools: pupil health and safety challenging bullying and racial abuse challenging harassment and discrimination use of physical intervention meeting the needs of pupils with medical conditions providing first aid drug and substance misuse educational visits intimate care internet safety school security

Duty to co-operate and refer You must escalate to the DSL on the same working day (immediately) if a child: Is suffering significant harm through abuse or neglect Is likely to suffer significant harm in the future The DSL must make a referral on the same working day to early help or MASH if the case may reach threshold.

Categories of Abuse There are four categories of abuse Physical Sexual Emotional Neglect

Physical Harm … may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding, drowning, suffocating, or otherwise causing physical harm to a child This also includes fabricated or induced illness

Sexual Abuse Involves forcing or enticing a child or young person to take part in sexual activities, not necessarily involving a high level of violence, whether or not the child is aware of what is happening. They may also include non-contact activities, such as involving children in looking at, or in the production of, sexual images, watching sexual activities, encouraging children to behave in sexually inappropriate ways, or grooming a child in preparation for abuse (including via the internet). … includes abuse of children through sexual exploitation … where a child is under the age of 13 it is classified as rape

Sexual exploitation of children and young people under 18 involves exploitative situations, contexts and relationships where the young person (or third person/s) receive ‘something’ (e.g. phone, phone credits, food, accommodation, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, affection, gifts, money) as a result of them performing, and/or another or others performing on them, sexual activities. Child Sexual Exploitation can occur through the use of technology without the child’s immediate recognition; for example being persuaded to post sexual images on the internet/mobile phones without immediate payment or gain. Nationally agreed definition of child sexual exploitation. Taken from the Pan-London Child Sexual Exploitation Operating Protocol

The report from the Children's Commissioner into Gangs and Sexual exploitation showed technology to be a factor in every case – sometimes a positive/protective factor, sometimes a negative factor

Emotional Abuse Persistent emotional maltreatment Deliberate silencing or ‘making fun’ of what they say and how they say it Conveying to children that they are … worthless or unloved … inadequate … valued only because they meet the needs of another Imposing age or developmentally inappropriate expectations Seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another Serious bullying (including online / cyberbullying), causing children frequently to feel frightened or in danger, or the exploitation or corruption of children

Neglect The persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child’s health or development. Once a child is born, neglect may involve a parent failing to: Provide adequate food, clothing and shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment); Protect a child from physical and emotional harm or danger; Ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate care-givers); Ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment. It may also include neglect of, or unresponsiveness to, a child’s basic emotional needs. Neglect because of adult over-use of technology – themselves or as a ‘babysitter’

Abusers Can Be: Any age Male or Female (including sexual abusers) From any social class ‘Nice’ people Working ‘helping professions’ Related to the child or not Damaged individuals, but very convincing liars; may appear to be ‘pillars of the community’ Online

Whistleblowing Worried about an adult in a setting? Their behaviour with children Their relationship with children The things they say Their attitude to safeguarding Their conduct online

Worried about an adult …. If worried about any adult in your setting – tell your headteacher same working day If you are worried about your headteacher – tell your chair of governors and the LADO (Local Authority Designated Officer) same working day (see your schools Whistleblowing Policy) NSPCC whistleblowing helpline 0800 028 0285

Child Protection referral & LADO contact Leicester City - 0116 454 1004 (24 hour service) Leicester County - 0116 305 0005 Police - 0116 222 222 LADO Leicester City Council LADO - based within the Safeguarding Unit 0116 454 2440 Leicestershire County Council LADO - Mark Goddard T: 0116 305 7597 & Karen Browne T: 0116 305 4532 Rutland County Council - Steve Tanner/Elaine Newcombe T: 01572 758 407 NSPCC whistleblowing helpline 0800 028 0285

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