Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy & Whistleblowing Policy

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Attendance

Online Safety

Acceptable Use

Prevent Duty

Relationship and Sex Education

Visitors and Volunteers

Toileting and Intimate Care

Safer Recruitment

First Aid

Curriculum

PSHE

Bereavement

Anti-Bullying

Equality and Diversity

Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco

APPENDIX 1: Recognising types of abuse Abuse, including neglect, and safeguarding issues are rarely standalone events that can be covered by one definition or label. In most cases, multiple issues will overlap. To ensure that our pupils are protected from harm, we need to understand what types of behaviour constitute abuse and neglect. Abuse is a form of maltreatment of a child. Somebody may abuse or neglect a child by inflicting harm, or by failing to act to prevent harm. They may be abused by an adult or adults or another child or children. There are four main categories of abuse: Physical abuse

Emotional abuse

Sexual abuse

Neglect

Physical abuse Physical abuse is a form of abuse which may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding, drowning, suffocating or otherwise causing physical harm to a child. Physical harm may also be caused when a parent or carer fabricates the symptoms of, or deliberately induces, illness in a child. Emotional abuse Emotional abuse is the persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and adverse effects on the child’s emotional development. Some level of emotional abuse is involved in all types of maltreatment of a child, although it may occur alone. 32


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