Safeguarding and Prevent

Visit the Digital Parenting website for advice and information about the latest digital technologies and the challenges children and teenagers might face in their digital world.

The Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, together with a group of 16-21 year olds, have produced a guide for parents to share the harms/issues children can face in the online world and what to do about them and where to get advice and help.  The guide is useful for anyone whether the are parents or not.

Criminal exploitation of children and young people is an increasing area of concern both locally and nationally. This pocket guide on Child Criminal Exploitation is aimed at children and young people but is equally as informative for parents and carers. Please have a read through and if you have any questions or concerns relating to this get in touch with us on either the safeguarding phone number or email listed on this page.

f you need imme­di­ate help or sup­port you should con­tact the emer­gency ser­vices or sug­gest­ed ser­vices list­ed below:

• Police – 999
• NHS – 111
• Domes­tic Abuse line – 0808 2000 247
• NSPCC – 01733 207620
• www​.Kooth​.com – Offer online sup­port for peo­ple with Men­tal Health concerns
• Samar­i­tans – 0330 094 5717
• Wom­ens Aid 24hr – 08454 103 123
• Vis­it the Dig­i­tal Par­ent­ing web­site for advice and infor­ma­tion about the lat­est dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies and the chal­lenges chil­dren and teenagers might face in their dig­i­tal world.

At Stam­ford Col­lege we pro­mote val­ues which ensure that our stu­dents devel­op a strong sense of social and moral responsibility.

We pre­pare stu­dents for life in mod­ern Britain and aim to embed key val­ues with­in the cur­ricu­lum and ethos at Stam­ford Col­lege. Val­ues such as:

• indi­vid­ual liberty
• democ­ra­cy
• the law
• mutu­al respect and tolerance

Our cur­ricu­lum is broad and bal­anced, com­plies with leg­is­la­tion and pro­vides a wide range of sub­jects which pre­pare stu­dents for the oppor­tu­ni­ties, respon­si­bil­i­ties and expe­ri­ences of life in mod­ern Britain.

It active­ly pro­motes fun­da­men­tal British val­ues and it extends beyond the class­room with a wide range of tuto­ri­als, vis­its, guest speak­ers and expe­ri­ences. It pro­motes tol­er­ance and respect for peo­ple of all faiths (or none), cul­tures and lifestyles through effec­tive spir­i­tu­al, moral, social and cul­tur­al devel­op­ment of stu­dents, includ­ing engag­ing stu­dents in extracur­ric­u­lar activ­i­ty, vol­un­teer­ing in the local com­mu­ni­ty, fundrais­ing, work expe­ri­ence and live project briefs.

All schools, col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties have a legal duty to edu­cate stu­dents about extrem­ist behav­iour and to report any con­cerns about stu­dents who may be at risk of radicalisation.

This could (but is not lim­it­ed to) include the following:

· Engag­ing with fun­da­men­tal­ists or their ideals (ISIL, Al-Qai­­da, far right groups, etc)

· Extreme polit­i­cal views (white suprema­cy, anti-Semi­­tism, etc)

· Vis­its to coun­tries deemed high risk by the UK government

· Access­ing web­sites / social media linked to extrem­ist organisations

· Views or behav­iour that are con­trary to British Values

RECOG­NIS­ING SIGNS OF RADICALISATION:

The fol­low­ing could describe gen­er­al teenage behav­iour, how­ev­er, togeth­er with oth­er signs may mean a young per­son is being radicalised:

• out of char­ac­ter changes in dress, behav­iour and changes in their friend­ship group
• los­ing inter­est in pre­vi­ous activ­i­ties and friendships
• secre­tive behav­iour and switch­ing screens when you come near

THE FOL­LOW­ING SIGNS ARE MORE SPE­CIF­IC TO RADICALISATION:

• own­ing mobile phones or devices they can­not account for
• show­ing sym­pa­thy for extrem­ist causes
• advo­cat­ing extrem­ist messages
• glo­ri­fy­ing violence
• access­ing extrem­ist lit­er­a­ture and imagery
• show­ing a mis­trust of main­stream media reports and belief in con­spir­a­cy theories
• appear­ing angry about gov­ern­men­tal poli­cies, espe­cial­ly for­eign policy

Mem­bers of staff have a legal duty to report any con­cerns, how­ev­er minor, to the Safe­guard­ing Team.