Safeguarding legislation and government guidance says that safeguarding means:
- Protecting children from maltreatment
- Preventing impairment of children’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 and young people to have the best outcome
Safeguarding includes child protection, health care plans, health and safety, site security, safety on school trips, anti-bullying work and so much more.
The school adheres to the following three DFE safeguarding documents:
- Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024
- Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018
- The Prevent Duty 2015
Schools will fulfil their local and national responsibilities as laid out in the following documents:
- Working Together to Safeguard Children (DfE)
- Keeping Children Safe in Education
- West Midlands Safeguarding Children Procedures
- The Education Act 2002 S175
- Data protection: The Data Protection Act - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Mental Health & Behaviour in Schools
- Birmingham Criminal Exploitation & Gang Affiliation Practice Guidance (2018)
- Right Help, Right Time - Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership (lscpbirmingham.org.uk)
- Multi-agency Statutory Guidance on Female Genital Mutilation
- Protecting children from radicalisation: the Prevent duty 2021
- Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education
- Birmingham RSE Primary Offer
- Searching, screening and confiscation at school - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Sharing nudes and semi-nudes: advice for education settings working with children and young people
- Voyeurism Offences Act 2019
- Working together to improve school attendance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Human Rights Act 1998
- Government publication equality act 2010 advice for schools
- Harmful online challenges and online hoaxes - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Meeting digital and technology standards in schools and colleges - Filtering and monitoring standards for schools and colleges - Guidance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Safeguarding disabled children - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Keeping children safe during community activities, after-school clubs and tuition: non-statutory guidance for providers running out-of-school settings - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Searching, screening and confiscation at school - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Public sector equality duty guidance schools
- Multi-agency statutory guidance for dealing with forced marriage and multi-agency practice guidelines: Handling cases of forced marriage (accessible version) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)