At the Streetly Academy we are committed to safeguarding children and young people and we expect everyone who works in our school to share this commitment. Adults in our school take all welfare concerns seriously and encourage children and young people to talk to us about anything that worries them.
To achieve this commitment, we ensure continuous development and improvement of robust safeguarding and child protection processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our staff and volunteers.
Mr T Harris - Deputy Headteacher & Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mr B Downie - Headteacher
Mr J Baker - Head of Year 11 & & Safeguarding team
Miss M Hughes - Learning Mentor & Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mr J Harris - Learning Mentor & Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mrs S Phillips - Sixth Form Learning Mentor & Safeguarding team
Mrs P Wiley - SENDCO & Safeguarding team
Mr J McCourt - Teacher of RE & Safeguarding team
Mrs C Leadbeater - Welfare Assistant & Safeguarding team
Mr A Winters - Designated governor for safeguarding
All members of staff at The Streetly Academy have a responsibility to read and understand all safeguarding policies:
All staff are expected to read the DfE guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education.
This should be read alongside the statutory guidance Working together to Safeguard Children and departmental advice What to do if you are worried a child is being abused – Advice for Practitioners.
All adults at The Streetly Academy are made aware of the NSPCC Whistleblowing Advice Line on 0800 028 0285. This service provides support to employees needing to raise concerns about how their organisation has handled a child protection concern.
NSPCC (for adults) 0808 800 5000
NSPCC advice for parents and carers on talking about difficult topics with their children
Child Line (for young people) 0800 111
Gov UK (advice and information regarding the reporting of child abuse
CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre)
Pause - Works to prevent the damaging consequences of thousands more children being taken into care each year.
Pause works with women who have experienced, or are at risk of, repeated pregnancies that result in children needing to be removed from their care. We aim to give women the opportunity to pause and take control of their lives breaking a destructive cycle that causes both them and their children deep trauma.
Forward Thinking Birmingham - Is the provider of mental health services for people up to the age of 25 in Birmingham.
Our new, modern mental health service offers support, care and treatment for all 0-25s through one organisation, making it easier for you to access the right support at the right time.
Established by teachers from amongst the country’s most successful schools, Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP) aims to improve the lives of children by making a genuine, positive difference to their mental health and wellbeing.
With a decade’s worth of experience, our charity is the most established provider of mindfulness training and curricula for schools. 350,000 primary and secondary pupils have already benefited from our programme, which helps them to flourish academically, socially and emotionally – and we want to reach many more.
We have added several links to external sites. These offer a wealth of specific information, advice and tips to young people and their parents on all esafety related issues.
If you need to get advice or talk to someone urgently, there are also links to the helplines these organisations operate.
| Cyberbullying | Don’t respond to the bully. Block them. Tell a trusted adult. Go online (or speak to a teacher) for help. The help sites are listed below. |
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| Lost control of an account | Go to the “Help” pages for the site. Report the issue. DO NOT share the same password for different accounts! If you do, change your passwords immediately. |
| Pictures / videos of you on a site that you don’t want to be public? | Remember the “Grandma” rule. Report the post containing the offending content. Mention in your report that the content is of someone under 18 – it may help speed things along. |
| Remember CEOP | You can make a report from here (click the button on the upper-right of this page), from many of the advice sites listed below, or by visiting the CEOP website. |
This site, set up by the Safer Internet Centre, allows you to get specific guidance on esafety-related issues and also report issues directly.
https://reportharmfulcontent.online/
Report abuse directly to the online-safety branch of the Police. You can click the button above to make a report.
Get advice and help on all aspects of esafety from locking down your devices and social media accounts, to cyberbullying, to getting rid of viruses and malware.
Can’t remember how to lock down an app on your phone? This site will (probably) have the details you need. They have loads of advice and videos showing you how to secure your phone and apps.
If you having problems online, or in the real world, these people can help. They have an excellent phone advice service too (0800 1111).
If you are looking for presentations you have used in esafety lessons, a good place to start is on your Google Classroom stream.
It can often seem that young people (“digital natives”) are running ahead with their use of technology, leaving the “digital aliens” (30 years old +) further behind and struggling to catch up with the latest app or social media site. There are many sites that contain useful and up-to-date advice and information to enable you to keep in touch with the online trends and support your child.
A good parental advice portal which also has direct links for reporting abuse.
An excellent source of advice for parents / guardians. Covers many of the issues affecting teenage users.
Visit the Internet Matters website
Practical advice on configuring privacy settings for your devices and social media accounts, safe searching, blocking malicious communications and reporting esafety issues. This site uniquely allows you to select your device / service and get step-by-step tutorials.
This site provides clear guidance for parents on the apps currently most popular with teenagers.
Visit the NSPCC NetAware website
This site, set up by the Safer Internet Centre, allows you to get specific guidance on esafety-related issues and also report issues directly.
https://reportharmfulcontent.online/
You can use these links to get advice from the service and, in many cases, report problems.
You can email the academy’s esafety coordinator here. If you have any general esafety issues, you can also contact your child’s Head of Year.
The current esafety curriculum (2015-16) is as follows:
Any student who joins the academy after the start of Year 7 has a tutorial with the esafety coordinator to cover any missed esafety knowledge.
The curriculum is adapted year-on-year to address current issues.
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