Notice: The safeguarding pages are currently under review and updates are being made across all pages. If you have any questions please contact the safeguarding team.

What is Safeguarding?

Safeguarding includes the processes that are undertaken to keep all children safe and promote of their welfare.  Safeguarding means:

• To protect children from maltreatment
• To prevent impairment of children's health or development 
• To ensure that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
• To take action to enable all children to have the best outcomes

Specific Safeguarding Issues

Gladesmore school is aware of the current national Safeguarding issues that children and young people may experience, some of which are listed below. We are committed to working closely with outside agencies to combat the effects of these issues.

• Anti-social criminal behaviour
• Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
• Bullying Including Cyber Bullying
• Children missing education
• Child missing from home or care
• County lines
• Domestic abuse
• Drugs & alcohol use
• Forced Marriage
• Gangs and Youth Violence
• Gender Based Violence against women & girls (VAWG)
• Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
• Faith Abuse
• Hate
• Mental health
• Missing children and adults strategy
• Private fostering
• Preventing radicalisation and Extremism
• Relationship abuse
• Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges
• Sexting
• Knife crime
• Teenage Relationship Abuse
• Trafficking and modern slavery