Safeguarding children from sexual violence, child sexual exploitation, and harmful practices
MET Police Schools Charter
What is this resource?
This guidance outlines what schools and colleges should consider and the actions they should take when they have concerns about a range of issues, including harmful practices such as FGM.
The Guidance for Schools and Colleges contains the ‘Schools Charter on Ending Harmful Practices’, developed by the London Harmful Practices Working Group. The Charter aims to encourage the delivery of high quality, safeguarding-focused inputs on harmful practices across all schools and colleges. It outlines key principles that all schools and colleges should follow when delivering lessons or awareness sessions to students, as well as the procedures to follow if a disclosure is made.
This Toolkit has been designed to be used by all educational settings, but is not intended to replace existing policies or procedures.
How do I use this resource?
The aim of this document is to help governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, senior leadership teams, designated safeguarding leads, and teaching staff understand the range of harms associated with sexual violence, sexual abuse, and harmful practices.
It is designed to support professionals in situations that require a safeguarding response, which, on occasion, may involve reporting criminal offences. The guidance aims to improve the identification of vulnerabilities and enhance information sharing to strengthen the safeguarding response that children receive.
The guidance contains:
- A Guidance for School’s on a range of safeguarding concerns including: FGM, breast flattening, honour related abuse, forced marriage and spirit possession, witchcraft, and ritualistic abuse.
- A Charter School’s can sign up to
- Considerations for schools and colleges
- Further information and guidance
- General information on harmful practices and useful links
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