1 Cheadle Heath Primary School SAFEGUARDING POLICY & GUIDANCE based on the Stockport Model Policy and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020 Autumn 2020 October 7.0 Reviewed and updated in line with LA guidance C. Meekley 2020 Agreed by governors at full Governing Board meeting 14.10.20 October 6.0 Reviewed and updated in line with LA guidance C. Meekley 2019 Agreed by governors at full Governing Board meeting 03.12.19 September 5.0 Reviewed and updated in line with LA guidance C. Meekley 2018 Agreed by governors at full Governing Board meeting 27.11.18 September 4.0 Reviewed and updated in line with LA guidance C. Meekley 2017 Agreed by governors at full Governing Board meeting 21.11.17 September 3.0 Reviewed and updated in line with LA guidance C. Meekley 2016 Agreed by governors at full Governing Board meeting 22.11.16 September 2.0 Reviewed and updated in line with LA guidance Agreed by governors C. Meekley 2015 at full governing body meeting July 2014 1.0 Policy prepared ready for September C. Meekley October 2020 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS SAFEGUARDING DEFINITION: ................................................................................................ 6 CHILD PROTECTION DEFINITION: ........................................................................................... 6 RATIONALE: ............................................................................................................................ 6 Information sharing and confidentiality ................................................................................ 7 PURPOSE: ............................................................................................................................... 7 LANGUAGE: ............................................................................................................................ 8 CONTENTS .............................................................................................................................. 8 PREVENTION ............................................................................................ 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DEFINITIONS ......................................................................................................................... 11 Abuse ............................................................................................................................................ 11 Physical abuse ............................................................................................................................... 11 Emotional abuse ........................................................................................................................... 11 Sexual abuse ................................................................................................................................. 11 Neglect .......................................................................................................................................... 12 Complex Safeguarding .................................................................................................................. 12 Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE): .................................................................................................... 12 Children and young people who harm others (also referred to as Peer-on peer abuse) ............. 13 Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment ............................................................................. 14 Contextual Safeguarding ...................................................................................................... 15 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ................................................ 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The use of ‘reasonable force’ ............................................................................................... 16 Students who harm others (peer- on- peer abuse) ............................................................. 16 SAFER USE OF THE INTERNET AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY (including Early Years provision)17 Use of mobile phones .......................................................................................................... 17 Work mobile phones ............................................................................................................ 18 Personal mobile phones....................................................................................................... 18 Cameras: Photography and Images ..................................................................................... 18 YOUTH PRODUCED SEXUAL IMAGERY ................................................................................. 19 CYBER-BULLYING .................................................................................................................. 20 ONLINE & GAMING SAFETY ................................................................................................. 20 Mental Health and Wellbeing ............................................................................................................... 21 PROCEDURES AND RECORD-KEEPING ...................................................... 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Children Missing out on Education and Missing from Education ........................................ 23 October 2020 3 SUPPORTING VULNERABLE PUPILS ...................................................................................... 24 Children with special needs and disabilities ........................................................................ 24 EARLY IDENTIFICATION RECOGNISING AND RESPONDING TO SAFEGUARDING NEEDS ..... 24 EXTREMISM AND RADICALISATION ..................................................................................... 26 OTHER SPECIFIC SAFEGUARDING ISSUES ............................................................................. 26 Domestic abuse/violence .............................................................................................................. 26 Honour Based Violence (HBV) including Forced Marriage (FM): .................................................. 26 Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): ................................................................................................ 27 Breast Ironing: ............................................................................................................................... 27 The criminal exploitation of children ............................................................................................ 27 Serious Youth Violence ......................................................................................................................... 27 Exceptional Circumstances .................................................................................................. 28 Site Safety ............................................................................................................................ 28 SAFER RECRUITMENT AND SAFER WORKING PRACTICE ......................... 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Local Guidance ..................................................................................................................... 33 Greater Manchester Safeguarding Procedures ............................................................................ 33 Young People and Self-harm - Stockport Schools' Version ........................................................... 33 Stockport Female Genital Mutilation Pathway ............................................................................. 33 Stockport procedures for responding to child sexual exploitation .............................................. 33 Stockport Suicide Prevention ........................................................................................................ 33 Greater Manchester Project Phoenix (action against child sexual exploitation) ......................... 33 Stockport Early Help Assessment.................................................................................................. 33 Private Fostering in Stockport ....................................................................................................... 33 Information Sharing and Team Around the School ...................................................................... 33 Information Governance ............................................................................................................... 33 National Guidance & Resource ............................................................................................ 33 keeping-children-safe-in-education 2020 ..................................................................................... 33 Early-years-foundation-stage-framework..................................................................................... 33 Working_Together_to_Safeguard_Children-2018 ....................................................................... 33 What-to-do-if-you’re-worried-a-child-is-being-abused