Safeguarding

Protecting children from extremism

'Educate against Hate’ is a new website which offers parents, teachers and school leaders practical advice to protect children from the dangers of extremism:
www.educateagainsthate.com/

There is also a consultation on registering children that go missing from school, improving information shared between schools and local authorities, to reduce the risk that children taken out of school go missing, following Ofsted inspections of schools in Tower Hamlets and Birmingham last year:
www.gov.uk/government/consultations/identifying-children-who-are-missing-education

Last month the government announced that all schools must put in place strengthened measures to protect children from harm online:
www.gov.uk/government/news/new-measures-to-keep-children-safe-online-at-school-and-at-home