Useful Links:
National Online Safety - What Parents and Carers Need to Know
Our Safeguarding Team
Mrs Williams
SENDCo
Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)
swilliams@treleigh.cornwall.sch.uk
Mrs Nikki Winnan
Deputy Headteacher
Additional Safeguarding Lead (ASL)
nwinnan@treleigh.cornwall.sch.uk
Mr Proctor
Headteacher
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL)
Miss Goodman Safeguarding Governor dgoodman@treleigh.cornwall.sch.uk |
What is safeguarding and why is it so important?
During school hours/term time, please contact our Designated Safeguarding Lead Mrs Williams with questions or concerns. For urgent queries outside of school hours or term time, or if are worried about a child or young person's safety please telephone the Multi Agency Referral Unit (MARU) on 0300 123 1116.
Types of Abuse and things to look out for
Neglect
Neglect the most common type of abuse and is the persistent failure (of a parent or carer) to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to seriously impair their health or development, including: failing to provide adequate food, clothing and shelter; failing to protect a child from physical harm or danger; failing to protect a child from emotional harm; failing to make sure a child has proper supervision; failing to get medical care or treatment for a child; failing to meet or respond to a child’s basic emotional needs.
Things to look out for
Physical
This means causing physical harm to a child, including: hitting; shaking or throwing; burning or scalding; poisoning; drowning or suffocating; fabricating the symptoms of, or deliberately inducing, illness.
Things to look out for
Sexual
Sexual abuse is forcing or enticing a child to take part in sexual activities, including: physical contact, for example kissing, touching or rape; non-contact abuse, for example involving a child in looking at or producing sexual images; ‘upskirting’ (taking a photo under someone’s clothes without them knowing, to humiliate, distress or alarm them, or for sexual gratification); encouraging sexually inappropriate behaviour; grooming in preparation for child abuse…
Things to look out for
Emotional
Emotional abuse is persistent emotional maltreatment, severely affecting a child’s emotional development, including: making a child feel worthless, unloved or inadequate; silencing or ‘making fun’ of what a child says; placing extreme limits on what a child can do; imposing inappropriate age or developmental expectations; exploiting or corrupting; serious bullying (including cyber-bullying); exposing a child to ill-treatment.
Things to look out for
Child on Child abuse: children can abuse other children too online or in the real world
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