Parents

Safeguarding

Safeguarding is EVERYBODY’s responsibility.

Safeguarding means:

  • Protecting children from abuse and maltreatment.
  • Preventing harm to children’s health or development.
  • Ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care.
  • Taking action to enable all children and young people to have the best outcomes.

Child protection is part of the safeguarding process. It focuses on protecting individual children identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. This includes child protection procedures which detail how to respond to concerns about a child.

Our Safeguarding Statement of Practice can also be obtained on request at the main reception. Further details can be obtained from the Gov.Uk website under Keeping Children Safe in Education .

Support Booklet containing useful websites

How do we Safeguard our Students?

We take safeguarding seriously and there is a clear safeguarding culture at The Long Eaton School. All staff play an important role in this and they are updated and trained accordingly.

All staff know what to do if a student makes a disclosure to them and are able to log any concerns by emailing our Safeguarding Team who act on each individual case. Following this, we work with a number of staff in  school and external agencies to ensure the safety of our students.

In addition to this, our Life Skills and assembly programme covers a number of key topics such as extremism, mental health, online safety and anti-bullying. All students in Year 9 also take part in a Healthy Relationship programme which highlights the dangers for young people such as grooming and controlling behaviours.

If you have any concerns that you would like to report to the school, please ask to speak to:

Mr Antony Fox – Assistant Principal/ Designated Safeguarding Lead

Mrs K Harrowing – Targeted Support Lead

Specific Safeguarding Information

Child Abuse

In relation to children safeguarding and promoting their welfare is defined as:

  • Protecting children from maltreatment;
  • Preventing impairment of a child’s health or development;
  • Ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care;
  • Taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.

There are four types of child abuse as defined in ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ (2023) which is defined in the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education Statutory Guidance 2023’ as:

  • Physical Abuse: Deliberately physically hurting a child
  • Emotional Abuse: Causing a child ongoing emotional harm
  • Sexual Abuse: Any sexual activity with a child
  • Neglect: Continually failing to meet a child’s basic needs
  • Bullying: Please refer to the Trust’s  Child on Child Abuse Policy for further information on reporting and dealing with bullying which is in the policies section of the website.

 

How to Spot the Signs of Child Abuse or Neglect

Some of the indicators are a change in:

  • Appearance e.g. Unusual injuries or consistently poor hygiene
  • Behaviour e.g. Withdrawn, aggressive, overly anxious, disruptive, self-harming or other sudden changes in behaviour
  • Communication e.g.  aggression, using sexual language, secretive

Out of Hours Contact – Advice for Parents/Carers

Most of us look forward to the school holidays with great excitement but for some young people it can be a time of anxiety especially for those who rely on regular face-to-face contacts with their friends or who enjoy the security and structure provided by the school day.

If you are concerned about any young person in respect of their emotional wellbeing or you feel that they are vulnerable to harm or abuse and you are uncertain whether they are receiving support you may wish to contact one of the agencies listed. Many of the agencies have established links and will ensure that your concern or query is directed to the appropriate agency.

  • Call Derbyshire (Derbyshire County Council Social Services) 01629 533190
  • Child Line 0800 1111 – NHS Direct 111
  • Online issues or exploitation contact Child Exploitation and Online Protection Agency (CEOP) https://www.ceop.police.uk/Ceop-Report/
  • Suspicion that a young person is at risk of Child Sexual Exploitation- contact Safe and Sound 01332 362120
  • Advice, support and options if you, or someone you love, goes missing or runs away- 24 Hour Anonymous Helpline Text or Call 116 000
  • Radicalisation/Extremist behaviour see advice on: http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Safety-advice/Terrorism/Prevent-Team/Prevent-Team.aspx Or contact: Police 101 (999 in an emergency) Or Crimestoppers UK 0800 555 111

The relaxed atmosphere of holidays can also lead to young people lowering their guard. Please continue to talk to the young people in your care about online and social media safety and encourage them to share any concerns that they have about any contacts they receive. CEOP have an excellent website called “Think u know” (Xmas Holidays) and “Think u know”

 

The Prevent Duty

All schools and registered childcare providers are required to “have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”. This is called the Prevent Duty. A useful website on this duty can be found here.

 

FGM

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a procedure where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed, but there’s no medical reason for this to be done. It is also known as female circumcision or cutting, and by other terms, such as sunna, gudniin, halalays, tahur, megrez and khitan, among others. FGM is usually carried out on young girls between infancy and the age of 15, most commonly before puberty starts. It is illegal in the UK and is child abuse. It is very painful and can seriously harm the health of women and girls. It can also cause long-term problems with sex, childbirth and mental health.

Getting help and support – all women and girls have the right to control what happens to their bodies and the right to say no to FGM. Help is available if you have had FGM or you’re worried that you or someone you know is at risk.

  • If someone is in immediate danger, contact the police immediately by dialling 999.
  • If you’re concerned that someone may be at risk, contact the NSPCC helpline on 0800 028 3550 or fgmhelp@nspcc.org.uk.
  • If you’re under pressure to have FGM performed on your daughter, ask a GP, your health visitor or another healthcare professional for help, or contact the NSPCC helpline.
  • If you have had FGM, you can get help from a specialist NHS gynaecologist or FGM service – ask a GP, your midwife or any other healthcare professional about services in your area.

Contact Us

The Long Eaton School
Thoresby Road
Long Eaton
Nottingham
NG10 3NP

E-mail: info@longeaton.derbyshire.sch.uk
Tel: 0115 9732438

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