Safeguarding is Everyone’s Responsibility

Ravenscliffe High School is committed to providing a secure and supportive environment in which children can learn, develop, and grow into mature and responsible people. We believe that all children should be free from harm and always have their rights and welfare promoted. 

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility, and as such it is embedded throughout every aspect of the school culture and the curriculum.  

Staff receive regular training, and students are made aware of who they can talk to and how we can help. Ravenscliffe adopts an individualised, sensitive and considered approach to supporting our students. 

Where we have welfare or safeguarding concerns about a student, we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies. We will always aim to speak with parents and carers first, unless doing so would compromise the student’s welfare or safety. 

Multi-agency research tells us that young people with learning difficulties have significantly increased vulnerability within all aspects of Safeguarding. We have a dedicated, qualified and professional team of Designated Safeguarding Leads at Ravenscliffe. You can view our Safeguarding Policy and the Government’s Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance via the links below. You contact the Safeguarding Team by calling the school’s main reception, where someone will be able to put you through to a member of the team. 

KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE IN EDUCATION
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SAFEGUARDING POLICY
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Mental Health

If you have concerns about your child’s mental health or emotional wellbeing, please speak to their pastoral teacher who can help you to access in-school support or direct you to a member of staff in school who can support with a referral to external services.

The websites below provide lots of helpful information and guidance.

Domestic Abuse

All schools are part of Operation Encompass, this means that if the police attend a Domestic Abuse incident, they will inform the safeguarding team in school. We treat this information sensitively and work to support students and family members who may be victims of domestic abuse. Further support may be sought via the services below.

Online Safety

Ravenscliffe provides a monthly online safety newsletter, with current information to help protect young people online – you can view all of these via the online safety page here. Ravenscliffe is a mobile phone free school, students bringing devices to school must hand these in during the school day. These organisations below can provide further advice, support and information.

What do we do in school?

All students are taught how to keep themselves safe on the internet through whole school assemblies, computing lessons and are regularly reminded through different areas of the curriculum. This includes thinking about the information they put online, how to keep their social networking profiles private and where to go if they have concerns. All students and their parents / carers sign an acceptable use policy for using computers within school & college. Access to the internet is filtered which means that unsafe and unsuitable material is blocked. We also have real-time alerts enabled which highlights if a user is attempting to access inappropriate materials online.