Safeguarding

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children refers to the processes of protecting students from harm/maltreatment, preventing the impairment of their mental and physical health and development, ensuring that we seek to improve the general health and well-being of all students in our care and enabling every student to have the optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.

Child Protection

Child Protection is the core element of safeguarding and is defined as the responsibility to protect children who are suffering or likely to suffer from harm as a result of abuse or neglect.

Invictus International School believes that having a safeguarding and child protection policy comes with the expectation that all staff, including all volunteers in our school and any contractors or partner agency staff used by schools, recognise where a student is at risk of, or is actually being harmed and do all they can to reduce further risk or further harm. Our students are encouraged to make decisions for themselves and are supported in this by learning through specific elements of the curriculum, aimed at enabling students to be able to keep themselves safe (e.g. through personal, social and health education programmes or similar).

School’s Aims and Objectives

The school aims are:

• To provide a safe environment for children to learn in;
• To establish what actions the school can take to ensure that children remain safe at school;
• To raise the awareness of all staff to these issues, and to define their roles and responsibilities in reporting possible cases of abuse;
• To identify children who are suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm;
• To ensure effective communication between all staff on child protection and safeguarding issues;
• To ensure that the correct procedures are in place for those who encounter any child protection and/or safeguarding concerns.

The Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy is available through the schools’ iSAMS Parent School Management System for both IHH and ISH.