Child Protection
Schools have a key duty to ensure the wellbeing of ALL children. For this to happen schools need to lay down necessary structures to ensure the effectiveness of child protection policies and procedures.
Schools have a key duty to ensure the wellbeing of ALL children. For this to happen schools need to lay down necessary structures to ensure the effectiveness of child protection policies and procedures.
What is Child Protection?
What is Child Protection?
This is a process of protecting children from any form of abuse or harm. It involves measures, structures and policies laid down by the organisation, designed to prevent and respond immediately and effectively. Protection is about improving the safety of children. Schools and communities are responsible for building a safe and child-friendly environment outside the child's home. In the family, school and community, children should be fully protected so they can survive, grow, learn and develop to their fullest potential.
This is a process of protecting children from any form of abuse or harm. It involves measures, structures and policies laid down by the organisation, designed to prevent and respond immediately and effectively. Protection is about improving the safety of children. Schools and communities are responsible for building a safe and child-friendly environment outside the child's home. In the family, school and community, children should be fully protected so they can survive, grow, learn and develop to their fullest potential.
Child protection policies are designed to consider the best interest of children, to ensure no child is discriminated against, to ensure the survival and development of all children, and that all children are supported to participate in issues concerning them. This includes: having a Designated Child Protection Lead in place; having standard reporting procedures in place and ensuring they are adhered to; ensuring any child protection concerns are identified and referred promptly to the relevant services and/or authorities.
Child protection policies are designed to consider the best interest of children, to ensure no child is discriminated against, to ensure the survival and development of all children, and that all children are supported to participate in issues concerning them. This includes: having a Designated Child Protection Lead in place; having standard reporting procedures in place and ensuring they are adhered to; ensuring any child protection concerns are identified and referred promptly to the relevant services and/or authorities.
AISCTs Designated Child Protection Leads are Ms. Iza Skoczylas (upper school- iskoczylas@aisct.org) and Ms. Shari Dixon (lower school- sdixon@aisct.org). If you have any child protection concerns relating to an AISCT student, please contact one of AISCT's Designated Child Protection Leads.
AISCTs Designated Child Protection Leads are Ms. Iza Skoczylas (upper school- iskoczylas@aisct.org) and Ms. Shari Dixon (lower school- sdixon@aisct.org). If you have any child protection concerns relating to an AISCT student, please contact one of AISCT's Designated Child Protection Leads.
Role of The School in Child Protection
Role of The School in Child Protection
• Creating safe environments for children and young people through robust safeguarding practices.
• Creating safe environments for children and young people through robust safeguarding practices.
• Ensuring that adults who work in the school, including volunteers, don't pose a risk to children.
• Ensuring that adults who work in the school, including volunteers, don't pose a risk to children.
• Making sure staff are trained, know how to respond to concerns and keep-up-to-date with policy.
• Making sure staff are trained, know how to respond to concerns and keep-up-to-date with policy.
• Be aware of the signs of abuse and neglect including exploitation.
• Be aware of the signs of abuse and neglect including exploitation.
• Helping students to understand how to keep themselves safe and manage risks.
• Helping students to understand how to keep themselves safe and manage risks.
• Foster a culture of trust between adults who work at the school and children who attend.
• Foster a culture of trust between adults who work at the school and children who attend.
• Consider whether wider environmental factors are present in a child’s life that are a threat to their safety and/or welfare.
• Consider whether wider environmental factors are present in a child’s life that are a threat to their safety and/or welfare.
• Maintain suitable standards of conversation and interaction with and between pupils.
• Maintain suitable standards of conversation and interaction with and between pupils.
• Raising awareness and discussion of safeguarding issues and concerns amongst staff and pupils.
• Raising awareness and discussion of safeguarding issues and concerns amongst staff and pupils.
• Co-ordinating safeguarding planning and action within the school and liaising with other agencies.
• Co-ordinating safeguarding planning and action within the school and liaising with other agencies.
• Having First Aid and Medical Plans in place.
• Having First Aid and Medical Plans in place.
• Having records for children with long term medical conditions (and working closely with care givers).
• Having records for children with long term medical conditions (and working closely with care givers).
• Pastoral and Safeguarding Education.
• Pastoral and Safeguarding Education.