Safeguarding Children Eunice Cox

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Safeguarding ChildrenEunice Cox

• Technical Support Forum

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What is Safeguarding?

• Protecting children from maltreatment
• Preventing impairment of childrens health or
  development and
• Ensuring that children are growing up in
  circumstances consistent with the provision of
  safe and effective care
• And undertaking that role so as to enable those
  children to have optimum life chances and to
  enter adulthood successfully
• (Para 118 Working
  Together 2006)
  

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What is Safeguarding?

• Under the Children Act 2004 every Local Authority
  had to establish a Local Safeguarding Children
  Board. The primary function of the Board is to
  improve the overall wellbeing of children in the
  area, based on the Every Child Matters outcome
• Safe from maltreatment, neglect, violence and
  sexual exploitation
• Safe from accidental injury and death
• Safe from bullying and discrimination
• Safe from crime and anti-social behaviour in and
  out of school
• Secure, stable and cared for.

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What has safeguarding to do with you?

• Education Act 2002 s175 places a duty on schools
  to safeguard and promote the welfare of their
  pupils by
• Creating and maintaining a safe learning
  environment
• Identifying where there are child welfare
  concerns and taking action

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E-Safety Strategy

• Kirklees Safeguarding Children Board have a
  specific e-safety strategy
• This comes under their remit of communicating
  the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of
  children.
• It is important to have the strategy as the
  advancing digital world is having an impact on
  the welfare of children and young people.
• The strategy includes raising awareness in adults
  and children and equipping them to identify risk,
  respond appropriately and yet enabling them to
  safely embrace the opportunities of the digital
  world.

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Child Protection
Anti Bullying Policies
Staff Conduct
e-safety
Curriculum
Safeguarding
Attendance
Managing Allegations Against Staff
Behaviour Management
Health and Safety
Safe Recruitment and Selection
Building Design
Whistle blowing
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If you have concerns what do you do?

• Each school has a Safeguarding (Child Protection
  Policy)
• Each school has a Designated Senior Person for
  Safeguarding (Child Protection)
• You need to know who that person is so if you
  have concerns about individual children you must
  pass them on to the above named person.