Safeguarding

The staff and governors aim to keep children safe through:

• Providing a safe environment for them to learn in
• Identifying children who are suffering or are likely to suffer significant harm, and taking appropriate action to ensure that they are kept safe both at home and in the education setting.

To achieve this aim we:

• Take all possible actions to prevent unsuitable people from working with children
• Promote safe practice and challenge any poor or unsafe practice
• Identify instances where there are grounds for concern about a child's welfare and initiate or take appropriate action to keep them safe
• Contribute to effective partnership working between all those involved in providing services for our children

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Internet Safety

Schools and colleges have a statutory responsibility to keep children and young people safe online as well as offline, as indicated in the statutory guidance for schools- Keeping children safe in education.

Filtering is preventative. It refers to solutions that protect users from accessing illegal, inappropriate and potentially harmful content online. It does this by identifying and blocking specific web links and web content in the form of text, images, audio and video.

Monitoring is reactive. It refers to solutions that monitor what users are doing on devices and, in some cases, records this activity. Monitoring can be manual, for example, teachers viewing screens as they walk around a classroom. Technical monitoring solutions rely on software applied to a device that views a user’s activity. Reports or alerts are generated based on illegal, inappropriate, or potentially harmful activities, including bullying. Monitoring solutions do not block users from seeing or doing anything.

Great Bentley Primary School has thorough filtering and monitoring systems in place. The network filtering system is overseen by the Penrose Learning Trust IT team and prevents access to any inappropriate content by IT users within the school. A technical monitoring system called Classroom Cloud also tracks users' activity online. The school's Designated Safeguarding Leads follow up if any inappropriate words are typed or any searches are made by any members of the school community. 

https://classroom.cloud/online-safety/

Our Safeguarding Policy can be seen on our policies page.

Please note that any adult who has concerns about the welfare of a child has a duty to report this.