Keeping Children Safe in Education
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
At Mark Rutherford, the safety and wellbeing of every child / young person is our highest priority. We follow KCSIE, the statutory safeguarding guidance issued by the department for Education for schools and colleges in England. This guidance sets out the responsibilities of schools to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and ensure they are protected from harm
KCSIE is based on the principle that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. All staff, volunteers and governors receive appropriate safeguarding training and understand their duty to identify concerns, listen to children, share information appropriately and act quickly when a child may be at risk.
Safeguarding training is generally delivered by the DSL as part of the Safeguarding awareness training. KCSIE is updated annually by the DFE and it is a requirement that all staff are familiar and understand the guidance.
Mark Rutherford School takes a child-centred approach to safeguarding. We work closely with families and pertner agencies, including children’s social care, Early Help, Health professionals and the police, to ensure that children and young people receive the right support at the right time.
Safeguarding includes protecting children from:
- Physical, emotional and sexual abuse
- Neglect
- Child-on-child abuse
- Domestic abuse
- Online harm and exploitation
- Radicalisation and extremism
- Any other factor that may affect a child’s safety, welfare or development