Safeguarding at Harlesden Primary School 

Please read our Safeguarding Policy by clicking the following link: 

Harlesden Primary School Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy September 2023

 

Keeping Children Safe is EVERYONE's Responsibility. 

Read and download 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' September 2023 HERE

Harlesden Primary School is committed to safeguarding all children. 

 

Designated Safeguarding Lead: Elle McArthur 

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead: Sarah Wawn

Safeguarding Governor: Narinder Nathan

Digital Safeguarding Lead: Aminor Rashid

 

If you wish to speak to our Designated Safeguarding Lead or a member of the Safeguarding team you can contact them at school on 0208 9657445 or via email at: safeguarding@harlesden.brent.sch.uk 

 

Out of school hours, the Safeguarding Team can be contacted via the email safeguarding@harlesden.brent.sch.uk

 

If you have an Online safety concern you can call our Digital Safeguarding Lead on 0208 9657445 or email digitalsafeguarding@harlesden.brent.sch.uk

 

Children, please use this box to contact us if you have any worries or if you want to report a concern.

Click on the box to access the Worry Box form.

Or remember you can always speak to a trusted adult in school or call Childline on 0800 1111.

Contact ChildLine

Brent Family Front Door

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Peer on peer sexual abuse and harassment

 

 

 

This helpline provides both children and adults who are potential victims of sexual abuse in schools with the appropriate support and advice. This includes how to contact the police and report crimes if they wish. The helpline also provides support to parents and professionals. See section 21 on our safeguarding policy for our procedures. 

Peer on peer sexual abuse and harassment is not acceptable and not tolerated. Sexual harassment refers to unwanted conduct of a sexual nature that occurs online or offline. Sexual harassment violates a pupil’s dignity and makes them feel intimidated, degraded or humiliated, and can create a hostile, sexualised or offensive environment. If left unchallenged, sexual harassment can create an atmosphere that normalises inappropriate behaviour and may lead to sexual violence.

 

Sexual harassment could include:

  • Sexual comments.
  • Sexual “jokes” and taunting.
  • Physical behaviour, such as deliberately brushing against another pupil
  • Online sexual harassment, including non-consensual sharing of images and videos and consensual sharing of sexual images and videos (often known as sexting), inappropriate comments on social media, exploitation, coercion and threats


'STOP IT NOW' are a child protection charity who work to prevent child sexual abuse by making sure adults know what they can do to keep children safe. Through their anonymous and confidential online advice and self-help resources they can help you:


CEOP helps any child or young person under the age of 18 who is being pressured, forced or tricked into taking part in sexual activity of any kind. This can be something that has taken place either online or in ‘the real world’, or both. The CEOP Safety Centre has clear information and advice on what can be reported to CEOP, the reporting process and what will happen if you do decide to make a report. You can visit the CEOP Safety Centre and make a report directly to CEOP by clicking the Click CEOP button.

Domestic Abuse - Operation Encompass

At Harlesden Primary we are working in partnership with the Metropolitan Police and Children’s Services to identify and provide appropriate support to pupils who have experienced domestic incidents; this scheme is called Operation Encompass.

 

The purpose of Operation Encompass is to safeguard and support children and young people who have been involved in, or witness to a domestic incident. Domestic abuse impacts on children in a number of ways. Children are at increased risk of physical injury during an incident, either by accident or because they attempt to intervene. Even when not directly injured, children are greatly distressed by witnessing the physical and emotional suffering of a parent. To find out more about what is considered to be a domestic incident please take a look at the guidance from the Met Police on their website: https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/daa/domestic-abuse/what-is-domestic-abuse/

 

Operation Encompass has been created to highlight this situation. It is the implementation of key partnership working between the police and schools. The aim of sharing information with local schools is to allow key adults i.e. DSL or Deputy DSL the opportunity of engaging with the child and to provide access to support that allows them to remain in a safe but secure familiar environment. 

 

In order to achieve this, the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) will notify us of all domestic incidents where one or more of our pupils has been present, to the Designated Safeguarding Lead(s) (DSL) via an online notification system.  On receipt of any information, the DSL will decide on the appropriate support the child requires, this should be covert dependent on the needs and wishes of the child.  All information sharing and resulting actions will be undertaken in accordance with the Metropolitan Police and MASH Encompass Protocol Data Sharing Agreement.  We will record this information and store this information in accordance with the record keeping procedures outlined in our Safeguarding Policy.

Prevent Strategy

 

Prevent is a government strategy designed to stop people becoming terrorists  or supporting terrorist or extremist causes. Many of the things we do in school to help pupils become positive, happy members of society also contribute to the Prevent strategy. 

Find out more in our leaflet:

Anti-bullying 

 

Keeping safe from bullying is an integral part of our RHEd curriculum. Through our values-based curriculum pupils learn how to behave towards each other promoting the British values of tolerance and mutual respect. 
In our recent safeguarding review, pupils told us that  bullying is extremely upsetting, but children spoke confidently about different types of bullying and what to do if they were being bullied. Children were able to  distinguish between ad hoc name calling and persistent bullying as a result of our teaching and approach to bullying. We learn all about how to Speak Out and Stay Safe at school using the NSPCC resources:

 

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/support-for-parents/safety/ 

Read Our Anti-bullying Policy Here