Your child's welfare is our number one priority

Safeguarding our children and promoting their welfare is our number one priority and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

We believe that:

• All children have the right to be protected from harm;
• Children need to be safe and to feel safe in school;
• Children need support which matches their individual needs, including those who may have experienced abuse;
• All children have the right to speak freely and voice their values and beliefs;
• All children must be encouraged to respect each other’s values and support each other;
• All children have the right to be supported to meet their emotional and social needs as well as their educational needs – a happy healthy sociable child will achieve better educationally;
• Schools can and do contribute to the prevention of abuse, victimisation, bullying, exploitation, radicalisation, extreme behaviours, discriminatory views and risk taking behaviours; and
• All staff and visitors have an important role to play in safeguarding children and protecting them from abuse.

Safeguarding is defined as: 

• Protecting children from maltreatment;
• Preventing impairment of children's health or development;
• Ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care;
• Taking action to enable all children to have the best life chances.

Key staff:

Our Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL):

Miss Gillian McElvogue (Headteacher)

Our Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead:

Mrs Alex Irving

Our Designated Governor for Safeguarding:

Mrs Libby Grahan

You can read our safeguarding policy documents here.

Operation Encompass:

In every school

Aims to enable staff in every school to understand how to support children who are experiencing domestic abuse, no matter where in the world the child lives.

For every child

Aims to ensure each child experiencing domestic abuse receives timely support in their school, no matter where in the world the child lives.

For more information:

https://www.operationencompass.org/about-us

Online Safety

As online safety is such an important yet ever-changing issue, it is an integral part of what we teach the children at school. We use the Knowsley City Learning Centre Scheme of Work from Reception - Year 6 to inspire our lessons and help us give children the digital skills they will need in future life. A big component of these lessons is online safety, from gaming to keeping passwords safe. We are aware of how quickly things can change and also how difficult it is for parents and carers to navigate online safety with children as they grow up. We keep communication between families and school open and honest so we can support the children as a team. We organise meetings so we can discuss online safety face to face and also inform parents about current issues as well as useful age-appropriate guidance:

https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/discovering-digital-at-primary-school/  

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/

Parents and Carers - UK Safer Internet Centre

CEOP Safety Centre Parents and carers | CEOP Education

CEOP is a UK law enforcement agency that helps children and young people who have been abused or groomed online. You can make a report to CEOP if you are worried about online sexual abuse or something has made you feel unsafe, scared or worried.

We often have informal chats with parents and carers when children tell us about something that has upset them when using in the internet out of school to further protect the children in our care.

Gemini support us with our laptop computers and iPads. Their multi-layered cybersecurity solutions protect pupils and staff at Fellview when using devices. We use SENSO, a cloud-based, category-based web content filter, that appropriately filters and blocks students from harmful or inappropriate content. This not only helps filter out inappropriate content for the children, but informs the Safeguarding officers of anything inappropriate that has been typed and pinpoints the person, the time and the device it was typed on.

https://senso.cloud/en-GB/web-content-filtering

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