Safeguarding Training Safeguarding Briefing Autumn Term 2020 Wellbeing

Safeguarding Training Safeguarding Briefing Autumn Term 2020 • Wellbeing strategy • Keeping Children Safe in Education – 2020 update • Key areas of concern at Ranelagh • Student update 1

Safeguarding Training Safeguarding Update Introductions Helen Starr AHT Student Support and Guidance DSL Craig Tribe Chartered Education Psychologist 1

Safeguarding Training What is this all about? • To provide an opportunity to consider and process information delivered so far. • To provide an opportunity for us all to to think about our own emotions and thoughts and those of the new or returning pupils. • To consider ways in which we can meet both our own emotional needs and those of the pupils within the ‘bubbles’ and the wider school community. • To enable us to think about practical adaptations that we can incorporate into our daily lesson planning to meet the diverse needs of our student cohort. • To introduce a wider piece of work that aims to embed the well-being of the community of Ranelagh School into daily life. 4

Safeguarding Training Thoughts vs Feelings • On the SQUARE post it, note down your current feelings • On the RECTANGLE post it, note down your current thoughts 4

Safeguarding Training Safeguarding Update Autumn 2020 • Student update during lockdown (HOY) • Safeguarding form is on school website • New LADO in role: Alison Small Lado@Bracknell-forest. gov. uk Tel: 01344 351572 https: //www. bracknellforest. gov. uk/sites/default/files/documents/lado-referral -form. pdf 4

Safeguarding Training Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020 Key changes in part 1: There is rewording of the guidance (para 21) around extra-familial harm, this is linked to CSE and CCE Children’s mental health is added to the guidance Concerns about staff are widened to include supply staff 4

Safeguarding Training Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020 • Key changes in part 2: There is a link to the National Police Chief’s Council guidance on when to call the police. The guidance refers to the Relationships Education, Relationships & Sex Education and Health education guidance The emphasis has shifted from simply “allegations” to thinking about “safeguarding concerns and allegations”. The particular vulnerability of children who have a social worker is recognised. The guidance notes (para 113) “Schools and colleges have an important role to play in supporting the mental health and well being of their pupils” and asks that settings have in place clear systems and processes to identify these needs, and to consider when they become a safeguarding concern. 4

Safeguarding Training KCSi. E 2020 – Mental Health • Increased emphasis on mental health. The updated definition of safeguarding now includes mental and physical health. • BE ALERT that mental health issues in students are an indicator of potential safeguarding and child protection concerns. The could be an indicator of potential abuse, neglect and or exploitation. • Disclosures often come later. • Continue to raise concerns for mental health on the safeguarding form with DSL and HOY 4

Safeguarding Training Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) • Trauma may be defined as repeated cycles of stressful events and the inefficient turning on or off of stress responses. • Those who experienced 4 or more ACEs had a higher risk of experiencing future negative health outcomes and these were directly associated with the way in which the individual physiologically managed stress • • • Verbal abuse Physical abuse Sexual abuse Physical neglect Emotional neglect Domestic violence Substance abuse in the home Separated/divorced parents Family member incarceration Family member mental illness/suicidal 4

Safeguarding Training Protective and Compensatory Experiences (PACE) OUR ROLE AS TEACHERS: • Offer opportunities to buffer trauma and stress with plenty of PACE • Help develop resilience and selfregulation by confidence building and providing a safe space for our students • Unconditional love (friends and family) • Connectedness • Community engagement (extracurricular activities) • Security: order and predictability (CONSISTENCY and SAFE BOUNDARIES) • Mastery/self-efficacy 4

Safeguarding Training Keeping Children Safe in Education • Key changes in Annex A: The potential for children to be exploited when missing education is emphasised. Staff need to be aware of your unauthorised absence and children missing from education procedures. Child criminal exploitation is defined and included, together with some of the indicators. Child sexual exploitation is very much seen through the lens of child criminal exploitation. The wording around County Lines has been revised and improved. Wording around domestic abuse has been revised and improved. Honour-based violence is better termed Honour-based abuse. 4

Safeguarding Training County Lines in lockdown: The Lost Boy (SKY NEWS) This extended news piece from Sky's Jason Farrell is such an important vignette. This is a real 14 -year old boy who goes missing during lockdown, and when he is taking home by police, 'his abusive father didn't ask where he had been'. Jason Farrell says, 'At this point I remind him that he's only 14. I ask: "Do you ever not just think - I'm a kid I'm too young for all of this? " "Well - not anymore, " says Ben. "I had to grow up fast because I was alone. "' 'Ben' says he was annoyed with the police. 'They were just like - [home] is the best place for me to be - which really annoyed me because they didn't know the full story. In the interview with 'Ben' (voiced by an actor), Farrell appears genuinely shocked by the boy's story. It is one moment where some professionals just need to remember that these are actual children because occasionally the reality of dealing with county lines victims can too easily become 'commonplace'. One clear reason supervision is important. Watch the video here: https: //news. sky. com/video/ingest-30 -nm 22 -lost-boy-final-verison-with-footnote-mp 412009831 4

Safeguarding Training Keeping Children Safe in Education • Key changes in Annex A: A definition of terrorism has been added, a sentence amended to clarify radicalisation and a link made to the Channel guidance. Peer on peer abuse is amended to Peer on peer / child on child abuse The Voyeurism (Offences) Act came into force on 12 April 2019 and so has now been referenced in the definition of ‘upskirting’. 4

Safeguarding Training Ranelagh context - key areas of concern • Anxiety and depression – increase in numbers presenting with issues • Waiting list for counselling • Self-harm numbers have increased • Exposure to drugs and county lines issues • Vulnerable students 4