Keeping Children Safe in Education

What is safeguarding?

 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 • taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes
 A child includes anyone under the age of 18.

What is classed as a safeguarding At risk children in potential need for

issue? Who is responsible for keeping early help:
 Physical abuse children safe in education?
 is disabled and has specific additional
 Emotional abuse
 Teachers needs
 Sexual abuse
 Sexual harassment  Support Staff  has special educational needs
 Neglect  Everyone who comes into  is a young carer
 Bullying contact with the child!  is showing signs of being drawn in to
 Domestic abuse anti-social or criminal behaviour,
 Homelessness including gang involvement and
 Forced marriage
association with organised crime
 Radicalisation
groups
 Peer on peer abuse
 is frequently missing/goes missing
Staff should do everything they can to from care or from home
 is in a family circumstance presenting
support social workers. At all stages,
challenges for the child, such as drug
Where a member of staff has staff should keep the child’s and alcohol misuse, adult mental
concerns about a child they must circumstances under review (involving health issues and domestic abuse
take immediate action. Staff must the designated safeguarding lead (or  is misusing drugs or alcohol
follow their child protection policy deputies) as required), and re-refer if themselves
and speak to designated  has returned home to their family
appropriate, to ensure the child’s
from care
safeguarding lead. circumstances improve – the child’s  is a privately fostered child
best interests must always come first.