Safeguarding at Corbets Tey School

At Corbets Tey School we are committed to safeguarding children and young people and we expect everyone who works in our school to share this commitment. Adults in our school take all welfare concerns seriously and encourage children and young people to talk to us about anything that worries them.

All staff should also feel confident to voice concerns about the attitudes or actions of colleagues; this includes contact and actions using mobile phones, internet, email and chat.

All of our policies ensure that our processes and procedures at the school support the safeguarding of children and young people.

If anyone has any concerns about the wellbeing or safety of a child, they should speak to the Designated Safeguarding Lead at the school or the Safeguarding Deputies, who all undertake regular training for this role. They can all be contacted on 01708 225888.

The safeguarding team at Corbets Tey School are:

Prevent / Radicalisation: Extremism vs British Values

The Prevent Strategy is a cross-Government policy that forms one of the four strands of the strategy for counter terrorism. It includes the anti-radicalisation of vulnerable adults and children.

Extremism is defined by as the opposition to British Values:

• Democracy
• Rule of Law
• Tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs
• Individual liberty
• Mutual respect

But what does that mean in our school? Do students embrace these values in appropriate ways that are meaningful to them?

An extract from our Single Equality Policy:

The role of all staff: teaching and non-teaching

• All staff will ensure that everyone is treated fairly, equally and with respect, and will maintain awareness of the school’s Equality Policy and objectives.
• All staff will strive to provide material that gives positive images based on race, gender and disability, and challenges stereotypical images.
• All staff will challenge any incidents of prejudice, racism or homophobia, and record any serious incidents, drawing them to the attention of the headteacher.
• Teachers will support the work of ancillary or support staff and encourage them to intervene in a positive way against any discriminatory incidents.

All staff are expected to deal with any discriminatory incidents that may occur. They are expected to know how to identify and challenge prejudice and stereotyping; and to support the full range of diverse needs according to a student’s individual circumstances.

A video from LGFL to learn more about how schools can embedded the key messages of equality, tolerance, respect acceptance.

Staying Safe Online

This school has a clear, progressive online-safety education programme as part of the Computing,  PSHE and RSHE curriculum.

This covers a range of skills and behaviours appropriate to the likely risk to each individual based on:

• Level of independence in searching for online content
• Ability to recognise the significance of inappropriate content
• Understanding of what is inappropriate online behaviour or online content
• Online behaviour that could pose a safety risk to themselves or others (use of gaming, social media or other unrestricted, open communication platform)

The relevance of the online safety taught to each student is appropriate and relevant, taking all of the above factors into account. The online safety skills and behaviours taught generally reflect the curriculum pathway of each student to cater for their level of risk.

Our Online Safety Policy and Online Safety Framework (see Policies Page) has been developed in line with the cross-curricular framework ‘Education for a Connected World’ from UKCIS (the UK Council for Internet Safety).

Find Online Safety resources at LGFL