Southern Road Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its pupils. We believe that:
- All children have the right to be protected from harm
- Children need to be safe and to feel safe in school
- Children need support which matches their individual needs, including those who may have experienced abuse
- All children have the right to speak freely and voice their values and beliefs
- All children must be encouraged to respect each other’s values and support each other
- All children have the right to be supported to meet their emotional, and social needs as well as their educational needs – a happy healthy sociable child will achieve better educationally
- Schools can and do contribute to the prevention of abuse, victimisation, bullying, exploitation, radicalisation, extreme behaviours, discriminatory views and risk taking behaviours
- All staff and visitors have an important role to play in safeguarding children and protecting them from abuse
Safeguarding is defined as:
- 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 to have the best life chances
Southern Road Primary School will fulfil their local and national responsibilities as laid out in the following documents:
- Working together to safeguard children(DfE April 2018)
- Keeping Children Safe in Education: Statutory guidance for schools and colleges (DfE Sept 2020)
- The Procedures of Newham Safeguarding Children Board
- The Children Act 2004
- The Education Act 2002s175 / s157
- Mental Health and Behaviour in Schools: Departmental Advice (DfE 2016)
- Prevent Duty
Our safeguarding policy can be found here.
ONLINE SAFETY
At Southern Road we have an internet filtering system which protects our children; this is managed by an organisation called the London Grid For Learning ( LGFL)
Below you may find some useful websites which will help you gain a better understanding to protect your children at home and school.
For further information about keeping your children safe online you can visit Think U Know.co.uk by clicking here as well as the NSPCC website by clicking here.
Safeguarding software login.
Click here.
- FGM Prevention Service.93781983
- National FGM Centre leaflet – What is FGM Oct 2015 (002).93781983
- NSPCC Pants.99141047
- Parents Guide CSE.93781983