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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

6. 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’

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

8. 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.

9. 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)

11. 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.

12. 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

17. 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.

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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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’

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. Child Protection referral & LADO contact
Leicester City (24 hour service)
Leicester County
Police
LADO
Leicester City Council LADO - based within the Safeguarding Unit
Leicestershire County Council LADO - Mark Goddard T: & Karen Browne T:
Rutland County Council - Steve Tanner/Elaine Newcombe T:
NSPCC whistleblowing helpline

30. Any Questions?