E-safety & Safeguarding

“Pupils of all ages spoke confidently about keeping safe, particularly about how to stay safe when online.”
— ISI Inspector, December 2017

Key Staff

Safeguarding and Internet Safety are taken very seriously at Hilden Oaks. All staff have a responsibility to help keep others safe and there are also specific responsibilities for nominated individuals. The Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL) are:

  • Mrs K Joiner (Headmistress; DSL with ultimate lead responsibility)

  • Mrs S Wade (Deputy Head; DSL with E-Safety responsibility)

  • Mrs S Forrest (Manager of Preschool & Nursery; Early Years DSL)

  • Mrs T Wilson (Deputy Manager of Preschool and Nursery; Early Years DSL)

  • Mrs L Gordine (Early Years DSL)

  • Mrs N Hussey (Early Years DSL)

  • Mr J Makey (School E-Safety Officer)

  • Mr C Swainson (Trustee responsible for Safeguarding and Online E-Safety)

The School’s safeguarding policy can be viewed here. The Prevent strategy is a government initiative that is designed to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorist or extremist causes, and it forms a mandatory element of our safeguarding policies and strategies.

All schools have a responsibility to ensure that this strategy is reflected in their teaching and learning in curriculum areas such as PSHEE, RE, SMSC and their teaching of Fundamental British Values.

As a school we are very aware of our responsibility to protect our pupils from the malign influence of those who would seek to promote extremist religious or political views of any nature, and to use those views as a justification for discriminatory attitudes and behaviours.

Within our teaching and learning we seek to promote values of respect, tolerance and individual liberty. Furthermore we teach and encourage practices that keep children safe on-line through any teaching that involves use of IT and access to the internet.

Hilden Oaks is an accredited Values-based Education school and these positive mindsets, attitudes and behaviours are integral to the culture of the school; they underpin everything that we do and help to ensure that our pupils’ academic, social and moral development is not compromised by any of the undesirable influences that might otherwise offer them a distorted view of the world.

There are many websites that provide information and help on e-Safety. Here is a selection of useful sites: