The Discovery Educational Trust Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy applies across all of its schools, including Chase High School. The Trust policy is available via this link.
Discovery Educational Trust also recognises the prevalence of harmful sexual behaviour and child-on-child abuse and has documented a stand-alone policy to cover this topic, which applies across all of its schools, including Chase High School. The Trust policy is available via this link.
Extremism and Radicalisation
'Extremism' is a belief in and support for ideas that are very far from what most people consider correct or reasonable. It may include values and ideologies which may well be legal, but which could place people on a course towards supporting illegal, violent extremist views.
'Radicalisation' is the process by which a person comes to support terrorism and extremist ideologies associated with terrorist groups.
Children and young people have a natural curiosity which, as parents/carer, we want to encourage. However, as our children grow up we have to take different steps to ensure their safety.
Currently a number of young people have been persuaded to leave the country against the wishes of their families, or in secret, putting themselves in extreme danger.
As a parent/carer, you may be worried about how extremism and radicalisation might affect your child. Please click the links below for more information.
'County Lines' refers to a type of criminal exploitation in which gangs and organised crime networks exploit children to sell drugs. Often these children are made to travel across counties, and they use dedicated mobile phone ‘lines’ to supply drugs. Please click on this link for more information.
Online Safety
The internet can be a fantastic place for children and young people where they can talk to friends, be creative and have fun. However, just like in the real world sometimes things can go wrong.
If a child or young person you work with is worried or upset about something which has happened on the internet there is help out there.
If a child you know needs someone to talk to because of anything which has upset them, it could be that they are being bullied or that they have seen something online which they wish they hadn’t, there are a number of places they can go.
The Discovery Educational Trust Online Safety Policy applies across all of its schools, including Chase High School. The Trust policy is available via this link.
Has someone acted inappropriately towards a child online?
If a child you know has experienced sexual or offensive chat that has made them feel uncomfortable or someone is trying to meet up with them, you can report this directly to us.
This may have happened in a chat room, message board, instant messenger or on a social networking site. It could be on a mobile phone, games console or computer. It could be messages, images or conversations over webcam. The important thing is that if you know that an adult is making sexual advances to children on the internet you should report it to us.
Children can ring Childline on 0800 1111 and speak to trained counsellors about any problems they may face. Childline is run by the NSPCC and is there to help your child.
The Childline website also offers excellent help and advice on a whole range of issues.
Seen something illegal online? For a wide range of information about keeping the children safe online visit our Thinkuknow site.
Worried about viruses, hacking and online security?
Being the victim of online crime can be as distressing as real-world robbery. Learn about the real risks and understand the urgency of protecting your family at GetSafeOnline.
Are you worried about your own sexual thoughts and behaviour?
Some people struggle with sexual thoughts and behaviours towards children. Are you someone who wants to stop these thoughts and behaviours but does not know how? Stop it Now! UK and Ireland offer confidential help and support. You can call them on 0808 1000 900 or email at help@stopitnow.org.uk .
We tell our children to share but online it's different. In fact, sometimes sharing online can be dangerous. That's why we've joined forces with O2 to ask parents to be Share Aware and keep children safe online.
Talking to your childis the best way to help keep them safe. But with things changing all the time, it can be hard to keep up to date. You can always call our online safety helpline on 0808 8005002 to get advice on anything from the latest social networks to parental controls.
If you or your child are in immediate danger call 999.
Welcome to Live My Digital, a unique video series to help you and your children to stay safe online. The series consists of six short films for parents and six matching films for children to empower your family to use social media safely and responsibly.
The videos look at the ways in which the internet and digital technology can be used positively by young people as well as identifying the potential issues they may face.
They cover the most critical themes in online safety today including:
If you have come across something you think might be illegal online, such as sexual images of children and young people, then you can report this to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). It’s their job to make sure that things like this are taken off the internet.
The internet is a wonderful facet of modern life. Humans have never had as much access to information than they have today, at the touch of a keyboard all knowledge can be acquired largely for free. But it has also made us contactable at all times, in a manner that goes far beyond the voicemails that used to typify telephonic communications.
Now photographs, voice notes, and videos can be exchanged to any device at will. This has made young people more vulnerable than ever to unwanted messages and images. Research done by the Internet Watch Foundation, shows that 1 in every 4 teens has received unwanted sexual messages online.
Awareness of how to mitigate this issue is vital to securing the young people of tomorrow, and to help in that endeavour the Internet Watch Foundation has created a resource pack.
