St Joseph's Catholic Junior School

Safeguarding

 Saint Joseph's Junior School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children.

We treat safeguarding as a high priority. The health, safety and well-being of all our children, staff and visitors are of paramount importance.

Our children have the right to protection regardless of age, gender, race, culture or disability.

The Single Central Record (SCR) is maintained by the school to demonstrate that staff have undergone appropriate recruitment and police checks. The SCR is updated as and when additional staff or volunteers are recruited.

If any parent, staff member or volunteer has a concern about the welfare of a child they should immediately contact one of the designated safeguarding officers.

Click here to link to our policies page to see our safeguarding (and other) policies. (CLICK HERE)

From 1st July 2015 all schools are subject to a duty under section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, in the exercise of their functions, to have "due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism". This duty is known as the Prevent Duty for Schools.

At St Joseph's Junior School, we build pupils' resilience to radicalisation by promoting the School Mission Statement, Gospel Values and fundamental British values.

The statutory guidance refers to the importance of Prevent awareness training to equip staff to identify pupils at risk of being drawn into terrorism. The Home Office has developed a core training product for this purpose - Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent (WRAP). All our staff have received WRAP information and have taken part in training sessions provided by a Safeguarding Consultant on what Prevent is about and how to deal with any concerns they may see inside or outside school.

 CLICK ON THE PICTURE BELOW TO VISIT THE SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN IN BRENT PAGE, INFORMATION ON WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT A CHILD.

PLEASE VISIT OUR POLICIES PAGE FOR ALL OUR SCHOOL POLICIES 

St Joseph's Junior School Visitor's Leaflet

Prevent Pamphlet

FGM Information

Keeping Children Safe in Education

Modern Slavery

You may find links to these external sites helpful if you are worried about a child.

Brent Family Front Door - Brent Safeguarding Children Forum

ThinkUKnow - online e-safety guidance from CEOP

KidSmart - staying safe online

Childnet - keeping children safe on the internet

ONLINE  SAFETY
Some useful links to help you with online safety at home. Each bullet point when clicked will take you to the website.

Support for children
• Childline for free and confidential advice
• UK Safer Internet Centre to report and remove harmful online content
• CEOP for advice on making a report about online abuse

Parental support
• Childnet offers a toolkit to support parents and carers of children of any age to start discussions about their online life, to set boundaries around online behaviour  and technology use, and to find out where to get more help and support
• Commonsensemedia provide independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media for children and their parents
• Government advice about protecting children from specific online harms such as child sexual abuse, sexting, and cyberbullying
• Government advice about security and privacy settings, blocking unsuitable content, and parental controls
• Internet Matters provide age-specific online safety checklists, guides on how to set parental controls on a range of devices, and a host of practical tips to help children get the most out of their digital world
• Let’s Talk About It provides advice for parents and carers to keep children safe from online radicalisation
• London Grid for Learning provides support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online, including tips to keep primary aged children safe online
• Lucy Faithfull Foundation StopItNow resource can be used by parents and carers who are concerned about someone’s behaviour, including children who may be displaying concerning sexual behaviour (not just about online)
• National Crime Agency/CEOP Thinkuknow provides support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
• Net-aware provides support for parents and carers from the NSPCC and O2, including a guide to social networks, apps and games
• Parentzone provides help for parents and carers on how to keep their children safe online
• Parent info from Parentzone and the National Crime Agency provides support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations
• UK Safer Internet Centre provide tips, advice, guides and other resources to help keep children safe online