Keeping Every Child Safe, Supported and Heard
First and foremost, we provide a safe and caring environment where every individual learner can flourish. Bullying and any form of emotional or physical abuse are not tolerated. We also educate our learners about how to stay safe in the digital world.
At The Link Academy, we are committed to safeguarding and meeting the needs of all young people. No child should suffer harm, either at home or at school. Everyone who works in our Academy has a responsibility to make sure that all our young people are safe. Our Designated Safeguarding Leads coordinate this work and are always available to discuss concerns.
If you have any worries about wellbeing, behaviour or bullying, please contact us immediately.
Safeguarding Policies and Documents
Paper copies are available on request, please contact us directly. For all policies and documents please refer to the Policies & Documents area of the website.
Designated Safeguarding Leads
To contact the school Safeguarding Team please contact safeguarding.help@thelinkacademy.org.uk
Report Harmful Content
Should you come across any content on the Internet, or any apps that you use, you can use the button below to report this.
Reports can be made 24/7 through the online reporting forms and helpline practitioners will review and respond to reports within 72 hours between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday.
Reports can be made to RHC by anyone over the age of 13. SWGfL operates 3 helplines and to be sure you’re getting the right support take a look at the Helpline flowchart to find out who can best support you.
Online Safety Recommended Pages
We recommend the following pages to learners:
- Childline (https://www.childline.org.uk/ – for support.
- UK Safer Internet Centre (https://reportharmfulcontent.com/what-can-we-help-with/) – to report and remove harmful online content.
We recommend the following pages to parents/carers:
- Internet matters – for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online.
- London Grid for Learning – for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online.
- Net-aware – for support for parents and carers from the NSPCC.
- Parent info – for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online.
- CEOP Education – Thinkuknow – for advice from the National Crime Agency to stay safe online.
- CEOP Education – Thinkuknow – Online Safety at Home advice.
- UK Safer Internet Centre – advice for parents and carers.
- Childnet – offers a toolkit to support parents and carers of children of any age to start discussions about their online life, to set boundaries around online behaviour and technology use, and to find out where to get more help and support.
- Let’s Talk About It – advice for parents and carers to keep children safe from online radicalisation.
In addition, the Government has also provided the following advice:
- Support for parents and carers to keep children safe from online harms, includes advice about specific harms such as online child sexual abuse, sexting, and cyberbullying.
- Support to stay safe online includes security and privacy settings, blocking unsuitable content, and parental controls
Operation Encompass is a national police and education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children who experience Domestic Abuse. Operation Encompass is in place in every police force in England.
There is a legislative requirement for police forces to share information with educational settings through Operation Encompass.
Through Operation Encompass the police will share information with Beacon Hill Academy about ALL police attended domestic abuse incidents which involve any of our children who are related to either of the adults involved in the incident. This sharing of information will occur PRIOR to the start of the next school day. The notification will inform us about the context of the incident and will include the Voice of the Child.
