Parkside School is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all its children and young people.
If you are concerned that a child is in immediate danger you should contact the police on 999.
Safeguarding is the responsibility of everyone. If you are concerned that a child is being abused, or they may be at risk of harm, you should contact Bradford Children and Families Trust on 0800 953 0966, Monday to Thursday 08:30am to 5pm or Friday 08:30am to 4:30pm. Outside of these hours you can contact the emergency duty team on 01274 272752.
Safeguarding at Parkside
Where the school has concerns about a child or young person, our dedicated Safeguarding Team will act as a source of support, advice and expertise to children, families and staff. They will also decide when a referral is required by liasing with the relevant agencies.
Designated Safeguarding Leads
- Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL): Jenny Atkinson
- Senior Safeguarding Officer(day to day DSL): David Gracey
- Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL): Tara Throup
Please note that there are also other members of staff who have DDSL responsibilities.
To contact our Safeguarding Team:
- Email: safeguarding@parksideschool.net
- Phone: 01535 272752 (this will put you through to our Main Reception)
Online Safety – Filtering and monitoring:
It is essential that children are safeguarded from potentially harmful and inappropriate online material. At Parkside we use Smoothwall Monitor Managed Service, this is a real-time, proactive digital monitoring solution that provides school with a 24/7/365 human moderated service.
A small program runs silently on all computers on the school network monitoring all keystrokes. The keystrokes are analysed in real-time with any concerning words or phrases being reviewed initially by an artificial intelligence system before being escalated to a human moderator where necessary. Urgent detections are communicated to the school within minutes. In addition to the proactive alerts, all detections can be viewed by authorised members of the school Safeguarding Team using a secure online portal providing a helicopter view of all users and devices.
Online Safety – Parents and Carers:
Parkside School is committed to helping keeping children safe online. They do this through the PHCSE Curriculum and by providing advice and guidance when issue arise. In addition, we send out via email regular online safety guides for parents and carers, which are provided free through a project called #Wake Up Wednesdays.
Wake Up Wednesdays
Since its inception, ‘Wake up Wednesday’ has formed a fundamental part of online safety provision. Each week (on Wednesdays, naturally) a colourful, easy-to-follow and insightful guide to an aspect of the digital universe that’s causing concern, outlining related risks and suggesting ways to help children avoid them, is released.
Useful links
Report Harmful Content
If you’ve experienced or witnessed harm online we can help. Report Harmful Content can help you to report harmful content online by providing up-to-date information on community standards and direct links to the correct reporting facilities across multiple platforms.
Report Remove
Report Remove provides help for young people under 18 in the UK. It allows them to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet.
Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP)
If a young person has been a victim of online abuse or you are worried about somebody else, you can use CEOP to make a report.