Key Information
Key Information ListSafeguarding & Online Safety
Child Protection and Safeguarding
This is fundamental to everything that we do at The Ridgeway School and we take our duties seriously, including our commitment to on-line safety.
Our staff members, volunteers and any visitors to the school, including parents and carers, are responsible for the welfare of children. This includes doing everything we can to protect our children in school, at home, in the community and on-line.
If you see anything whilst in school that gives you cause for concern, or have any questions, you have a duty of care to report it:
Speak to a member of the school’s Child Protection Team:
Safeguarding & Child Protection Guide
Safeguarding and Child Protection Guide - July 2024
Online Safety
The school believes Online Safety is an important issue as access to the internet is all around us and on most smart electronic devices, many of which we want to use to help our pupils \\ children with communications and learning.
To protect our pupils and staff we deploy web filtering that is compliant with the KCSIE guidelines - this is currently provided by our ISP, Schools Broadband. One of the DSL's and the schools IT / Network Manager are responsible for these services, which includes monitoring incident reporting and testing the filters are protecting the school.
Please see the school's Online Safety Policy for more information, this can be found in the Key Information \ Ridgeway Policies section -> Key Information - The Ridgeway School
In the classroom and during teaching we use and promote the SMART protocol for internet use.
SMART Guide - 5 Rules to Staying Safe Online
WMAT Safeguarding Newsletter - The Safe
July 24 - The Safe - Edition 30 - Staying safe online and summer holiday planning
Mar 24 - The Safe - Edition 29 - THC Vapes & Edibles, Chroming and My LOL
Dec 23 - The Safe - Edition 28 - New Online Safety Bill & DeepfakesJuly 23 - The Safe - Edition 27 - Device Dependency and Self Care this Summer
March 22 - The Safe - Edition 23 - Focusing on online safety & child exploitation
Online Resources
Web links to organisations looking to help provide e-safety information and resources for staff, parents & pupils.
UK Safer Internet Org
BBC - OWN IT
NSPCC & O2 -> Internet Child Safety
Childnet - Online Safety
Preventing Child Exploitation - useful website links
CEOP - Child Exploitation and Online Protection
ThinkuKnow - Education programme from CEOP
Parents Protect! - a project from the Lucy Faithful Foundation
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