Safeguarding Blog

Mental Health and Wellbeing This week, we talked to the children about mental health and wellbeing: what is it? what we can do to promote a positive mental health and wellbeing? What do we mean by mental health? Everyone has mental health. Our mental health refers to the way

Attendance and Punctuality This week, we talked to the children about the importance of attendance and punctuality. Here are some of the questions we asked them and the answers they gave us: “What does attendance mean?” “Attendance means we come to school every day

Child on Child Harm This week, we talked to the children about child on child harm – what it is, and our BPA approach to preventing and managing it. The children told us what they need to do when it happens: Talk about what happened    

Children’s Rights During our first week of the new term we talked to the children about their rights. We do this at the start of every term so that children have regular opportunity to be reminded about their rights. Children can find it hard to share their worries,

Online Safety This week, we talked to the children about Online Safety. With the holidays nearing, a lot of our children will be spending more time online, so we want to help them to understand the importance of: Contacts and Interactions

Early Help This week, we talked to the children about Early Help – what it is and how it can help families. Early Help is the support families can receive when things are difficult at home.               We asked

Domestic Abuse This week we are talked to the children about domestic abuse – what it is and what our children can do if they are worried about it. Domestic abuse is sometimes called ‘domestic violence’ and it can involve an adult threatening, bullying or hurting another adult

Neglect This week, we talked to the children about what neglect is, and what they can do if they’re worried about it. What is Neglect? Every child has the right to be looked after properly. If a child is not getting the important things they need at home,

Child on Child Harm This week, we talked to the children about Child on Child Harm and asked them: Q. Somebody annoys you or says something you don’t like that makes you angry – what do you do? Q. You are in school and somebody hurts you – what do

Speak Out, Stay Safe During our first week back at school we have been reminding the children of their rights to a safe childhood. The children impressed us by telling us some of their rights: All children have the right to be safe from violence