Safeguarding and Child Protection

The Beaconsfield School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people.

If you have a safeguarding query please contact Mr M Brannon (Designated Safeguarding Lead and CLA (Child Looked After)) on mbrannon@beaconsfield.school

If the school is closed please take the following actions:

If you believe a child is in danger please contact 999 (if the danger is immediate) or 101.

If you are worried that your safety or the safety of any other student is at risk please talk this through with any adult of your choice at The Beaconsfield School. Our dedicated safeguarding team, which is made up of the staff pictured above, are specially trained to deal with any serious situations and may be called upon to help you and/or your peers.

A reminder that all actions and outcomes are recorded for students where there are safeguarding and/or behaviour concerns.

Safeguarding concerns:

If you have a safeguarding concern please contact the police on 101 or, if it is an emergency, contact 999.

Under 18 and worried about online sexual abuse? To report, click to visit the CEOP Safety Centre.

If you wish to speak to our Designated Safeguarding Lead, MrMarc Brannon, please email mbrannon@beaconsfield.school

Policies can be found here

Safeguarding Information

Mental Health advice

http://www.youngminds.org.uk

Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board for advice:

http://www.bucks-lscb.org.uk/

Childline has updated its website to include information to support children and young people concerned about coronavirus, The Independent has also published an article on advice from experts about how parents can respond to their children’s concerns about coronavirus, and includes a comment from the NSPCC.

Visit Childline: Worries about the world: coronavirus

Read the news article: ‘I went through my 10-year-old’s search history and there was coronavirus’: what should parents do about virus fear?

Online Safety

Please refer to these pages to ensure your child is safe online and know what to do if their activity online becomes and issue.

https://swgfl.org.uk/services/report-harmful-content/report-harmful-content-button/

YES Counselling 01494 437373 and see what they can offer

https://www.yeswycombe.org/counselling

CATCH and speak to them about support available (Children and Teenager Community Help (CATCH) 01296 383962

BFIS for all support networks

https://www.bucksfamilyinfo.org/kb5/buckinghamshire/fsd/home.page

SANE for mental health support: 08088010677

Samaritans helpline: 116 123

https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/

CAMHS helpline when in crisis:

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/camhs/bucks/

Call 01865 901951 (Single Point of Access; SPA)

Kooth– Free, safe, anonymous online support for young people.

https://www.kooth.com/index.html

Need to talk? Childline: Telephone, 0800 1111

childline.org.uk

Child Exploitation and Online Protection:

http://ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/

Domestic Violence: National Helpline :

http://thehideout.org.uk/

Preventing Bullying: Kidscape:

https://www.kidscape.org.uk/

Internet and Phone Safety: Think You Know?

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

Prevent Strategy (anti-radicalisation) concerns:

counter.extremism@education.gsi.gov.uk

Forced Marriage concerns:

http://www.karmanirvana.org.uk/

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) concerns:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect/female-genital-mutilation-fgm

The Prevent duty is the duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 on specified authorities, in the exercise of their functions, to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. The full Government Prevent Strategy can be viewed here.