Newdale’s Safeguarding priority is to ensure that our school community is a place where everyone feels they belong and that they feel safe.
We all have a responsibility to keep our children safe: in school and at home. Everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play. It is important that we all know what to look out for, know why children can be vulnerable and how they can be manipulated into harmful situations and exploited.
We know that reading information about safeguarding can sometimes be an uncomfortable read, but it is vital that we all know of the ways we can keep our children safe and how to act should there be any concerns. This short guide shares some information about contextualised safeguarding (within our community), signs to look out for and pathways for support and reporting.
Contextual safeguarding recognises that the different relationships that young people form in their neighbourhoods, schools and online can unfortunately feature violence and abuse. It is our responsibility to ensure that we are protecting children within our community from harm.
Within this guide, we have included useful links for parents and carers to help offer extra information as well as routes for support if needed.
Many thanks
Miss Cook
Keeping children and their families in our community safe 2024-25