Safeguarding

Content

• Anti-bullying
• Online safety
• How we make Longhill High School safe
• What action should I take at home?
• Useful Resources
• Child protection

Anti-bullying

We want all children and young people at Longhill High School to feel safe and supported at school. Brighton & Hove schools work hard to prevent and respond to bullying, but bullying does occur and children and young people often need the support of adults to resolve it.

Brighton & Hove City Council’s  ‘Safe from bullying’ leaflet aims to support parents and carers to work with schools to resolve bullying issues. The leaflet was written by the Council’s Children’s Services working in partnership with the Parent’s Forum. They also involved other statutory, community and voluntary sector organisations.

Online safety

Children’s Commissioner – Online Sexual Harassment

This document is written by the Children’s Commissioner, as a guide for parents on how to talk to children about online sexual harassment.

How we make Longhill High School Safe

The focus for Online Safety at Longhill High School is on education combined with appropriate safeguards to deliver an Online Safe environment for our young people.

Online Safety education is delivered in the ICT and PSHE curriculum, and is enforced by the school Acceptable Use Policy (you can find a copy in the Resources section to the right). All young people attending Longhill High School are required to sign a copy of the Acceptable Use Policy before they are given access to the Internet.

The school employs a multi-layered internet filtering system, email filtering systems and desktop monitoring software to further ensure that where possible students are prevented from coming in to contact with unsuitable content.

Longhill High School was subject to an Ofsted survey inspection focusing on eSafety in July 2009. The overall effectiveness of eSafety was judged to be good. A copy of Ofsted’s report can be found here.

In addition, emails containing confidential or privileged information sent outside the organisation are encrypted using Virtru Secure Email.

For more information on our e-safety  policy please see the link below:

What action should I take at home?

Take a look at the websites in the Resources section to below. Many offer helpful advice for parents on eSafety at home.

There are however some simple precautions you can take:

• Ensure computers connected to the internet are not in private spaces – such as bedrooms.
• Discuss eSafety with all family members. Decide what is and isn’t acceptable so everybody knows what is expected.
• Install some filtering software to limit the range of websites that are available. Some Internet Service Providers are able to do this for you, otherwise there is free software available such as K9 Web Protection.

Useful Resources

Child protection

We believe that our school should provide a caring, positive, safe and stimulating environment that promotes our school values and the Social Moral Spiritual and Cultural development of the individual child.

Safeguarding children is everyone’s responsibility and everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play.  Our pupils’ welfare is our paramount concern. At Longhill High School, our governing body ensures we safeguard and promote the welfare of pupils and work together with other agencies to ensure that our school has adequate arrangements to identify, assess and support those children who are suffering or likely to suffer harm.

For more information on our child protection procedure and policy please see the link below: