Safeguarding

Warwickshire MASH is a team made of different agencies and partners working together to keep children and young people safeguarded from harm, receiving the services they need at the right time, effectively and efficiently.

If you have a safeguarding concern about a child or young person please call the MASH 01926 414144.

For more information please visit their website below.

Warwickshire MASH

The parenting project is a voluntary organisation, which works across the Stratford District for families with children from 0 – 19 years which offers a wide range of services to help make parenting that little bit easier.

Our Family Support Worker is Jo Farrand. 

To view their website, please click below:

The Parenting Project

Protective Behaviours (PB’s) is a safety awareness and resilience building programme which helps children and adults to recognise any situation where they feel worried or unsafe, such as feeling stressed, bullied or threatened and explores practical ways to keep safe. Protective Behaviours also looks at identifying support networks for times when we need someone to listen and help.

Protective Behaviours is based on two key messages:

• We all have the right to feel safe all of the time.
• We can talk with someone about anything, even if it feels awful or small.   

Further information and a national practice sharing forum can also be found at PB People.

Prevent is a government strategy designed to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorist or extremist causes. The Prevent strategy covers all types of terrorism and extremism, including the extreme right wing, violent Islamist groups and other causes.

From July 2015 all schools (as well as other organisations) have a duty to safeguard children from radicalisation and extremism.

This means we have a responsibility to protect children from extremist and violent views the same way we protect them from drugs or gang violence.

Importantly, we can provide a safe place for pupils to discuss these issues so they better understand how to protect themselves.

Many of the things we already do in school  to help children become positive, happy members of society also contribute to the Prevent strategy.

These include:

• Exploring other cultures and religions and promoting diversity.
• Challenging prejudices and racist comments.
• Developing critical thinking skills and a strong, positive self-identity.
• Promoting the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils, as well as British values such as democracy.

We will also protect children from the risk of radicalisation, for example by using filters on the internet to make sure they can’t access extremist and terrorist material, or by vetting visitors who come into school to work with pupils.

The following sources may also be useful for further information:

• Prevent Duty Guidance - For England and Wales, HM Government.
• Frequently Asked Questions – Prevent for Schools.
• What is Prevent? - Let’s Talk About It.

• Childline - Support for young people.
• NSPCC - Child protection charity.