Safeguarding & Pastoral Care

Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy

The purpose of this policy is to provide staff, volunteers and Governors with the framework they need in order to keep children safe and secure in our setting. The policy also informs parents and carers how we will safeguard their children whilst they are in our care.

Dept for Education - Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025

Statutory guidance for schools and colleges. Part one: Information for all school and college staff

FVIS Safeguarding Guide - Leaflet for School Visitors and Volunteers

This leaflet contains information about our expectations of you whilst visiting the school. It gives information about our Safeguarding and Emergency Procedures.

ICT and Internet Acceptable Use Policy

ICT is an integral part of the way our school works, and is a critical resource for pupils, staff, trainees including trainee teachers and work experience students, parents, governors and contractors. It supports teaching and learning, pastoral and administrative functions of the school. However, the ICT resources and facilities our school uses pose risks to data protection, online safety and safeguarding. This policy aims to: ● Set guidelines and rules on the use of school ICT resources for staff, pupils, parents and governors ● Establish clear expectations for the way all members of the school community engage with each other online ● Support the school’s policy on data protection, online safety and safeguarding ● Prevent disruption to the school through the misuse, or attempted misuse, of ICT systems ● Support the school in teaching pupils safe and effective internet and ICT use This policy covers all users of our school’s ICT facilities, including governors, staff and pupils. Breaches of this policy will be dealt with under our staff code of conduct policy.

Online Safety Policy

Our school aims to: - Have robust processes in place to ensure the online safety of pupils, staff, volunteers and governors - Deliver an effective approach to online safety, which empowers us to protect and educate the whole school community in its use of technology - Establish clear mechanisms to identify, intervene and escalate an incident, where appropriate The 4 key categories of risk Our approach to online safety is based on addressing the following categories of risk: - Content: being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful content, such as pornography, misinformation, disinformation (including fake news), conspiracy theories, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, antisemitism, radicalisation and extremism - Contact: being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users, such as peer-to-peer pressure, commercial advertising and adults posing as children or young adults with the intention to groom or exploit the user for sexual, criminal, financial or other purposes - Conduct: personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm, such as making, sending and receiving explicit images (e.g. consensual and non-consensual sharing of nudes and semi-nudes and/or pornography), sharing other explicit images and online bullying; and - Commerce: risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and/or financial scams