Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as:
• protecting children from maltreatment
• preventing impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development
• ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
• taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes. (KCSIE 2022)
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility.
Please call the main school number (01843 831999) to contact one of the following members of our Safeguarding team, or email DSL@kingethelbert.kent.sch.uk
Laura Day (Designated Safeguarding Lead)
Jo Setterfield (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead)
Ben Rowland (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead)
Please contact Integrated Children’s Services on 03000 411111 (office hours) or 03000 419191 (out of office hours).
If you believe a child is in immediate danger, always contact 999 for assistance.
There are many resources available to help children and young people stay safe. Please see the options below for different organisations and links to their websites.
CEOP - if you have any concerns about what you have seen online report it to CEOP:
Childline is there 24hrs a day to support you in any way they can whatever the problem. You can also visit their website for further information or signposting to other support websites
Helping make the internet a great and safe place for children and young people
Support for Students and Adults on Facebook and Twitter.
Childline has launched an app that is the first to provide counselling to young people in need of help directly through their mobile devices. The app has been named 'For Me' to ensure that it can be discreetly installed. This means that if someone happens to see the young person's phone they can't tell it's a Childline service. This can be downloaded from your app store.
A place where young people aged 10-16 can learn how to look after their emotional and mental health and find ways to help them bounce back when life gets tough:
A great app you can download which tells you all about the apps young people are using and what they do. It also gives you information on how safe they are.
It's not easy being a parent in the digital age. Thinks change quickly and it can be hard to keep up. The APrent Zone website helps parents and carers keep up.
Before you submit a report to us, it is essential that you have reported the material to the social media service directly using their online tools, at least 48 hours ago. The link below takes to directly to the 'Report Harmful Content' website, where you submit a report, and also find out how to report directly to different social media platforms.
It is also important to remember that we can only submit reports on specific platforms, about the 8 harms detailed in the poster above.
Report Remove is here to help young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet.
Think U Know - is an online general advice site to do with anything internet based. Advice is given by age range including support for parents.
Free training for parents on wellbeing and self harming behaviours
Here is the link to Mind and Body's free online training sessions for parents and
carers who are looking to explore strategies to support their young person's
wellbeing, particularly in relation to self harm. The sessions are open access and
therefore parents/carers don't have to have a young person currently open to Mind
and Body in order to access the session.
More information about Mind and Body can be accessed here.
Helping children and young people stay safe online.
For any that needs help or support after a crime has been committed.