Digital and Technology Standards in Schools and Colleges’ 2022, updated January 2024. Cyber Security Standards in Schools and Colleges 2022’.
Safeguarding and Remote Education Guidelines 2021. Children Missing from Education 2013. Children who Run Away and Go Missing from Home or Care 2014. Missing Children and Adults strategy 2011.
KEY DEFINITIONS
Below are some key terms used on a day-to-day basis at SCL, however, more general safeguarding related terms and definitions can be found here: Child Protection and Safeguarding Related Terms and Definitions. Legal Definition-Child: Anyone who has not yet reached their 18 th birthday. In this document a child or children is taken to include young people up to 18, as defined by the Children Act 1989 and 2004. Vulnerable Adult: Any person who is aged 18 and over who may be at risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation, grooming or other forms of harm including mental health difficulties. Safeguarding: Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children and vulnerable adults to protect them from harm. Safeguarding means:
Protecting children from abuse and maltreatment. Preventing harm to children’s health or development.
Ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care. Action enables all children and young people to have the best outcomes.
Child Protection: Child protection is part of the safeguarding process. It focuses on protecting individual children identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. This includes child protection procedures which detail how to respond to concerns about a child.
Learners: This term are used to describe all children, vulnerable adults and students participating in our education programmes outside of the Active 4–11-year-old provision.
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