Safeguarding and child protection encompasses a wide variety of issues including health and safety, site security, safety on school trips, online safety, mental health, and anti-bullying along with all forms of maltreatment, exploitation, abuse or neglect. Our robust safeguarding and child protection policy and procedures have been developed in conjunction with independent child protection experts and reflect the importance we place on ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all those at the school.

Whilst the internet is a wonderful educational resource and great for staying in touch with family and friends, it’s important to stay safe online. With that in mind, all young people are timetabled to attend the school’s IT and internet safety course run jointly by members of the school’s IT team, teaching team and safeguarding officers.

To prevent access to inappropriate or harmful material online, appropriate controls are in place on the Wi-Fi throughout the school. Further, where risk assessed as necessary for safeguarding purposes, the school may operate appropriate monitoring of internet use and email communications through the use of keyword-based filtering software. We ensure that any such monitoring is no more intrusive than necessary having regard to each young person’s need for privacy and is only carried out with the written consent of the relevant placing authority.