Safeguarding

Safeguarding at Young Risers 

If a child is in iminent danger then please call 999 for the police.

The team at Young Risers are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare, both physically and emotionally, of every child.  We aim to provide a caring, positive, safe and stimulating environment which promotes the social, physical and moral development of each individual child and strive to make sure that every child in the pre-school feels safe, secure, well care for and able to reach their full potential.

Please read our child protection policy on our policy page.

Young Risers Safeguarding Team

Beckie Francis

Office Manager - Lead Designated Safeguarding Lead

Ruby Eastwood

Deputy Manager - Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

If you have any protection or safeguarding concerns please speak to Beckie or Ruby.

Safeguarding Websites

NSPCC - all about child safeguarding, online safety and includes information and support for parents

NSPCC - Lets talk PANTS - all about the underwear rule for children

Online Safety

Safeguarding your child online

You can keep your child safe online by following these online safety tips

• Put yourself in control - make use of parental controls on your home broadband and any internet enabled devices.
• Search safely - use safe search engines such as swiggle.org.uk or kids-search.com.  Safe search can also be activated on Google and other search engines as well as Youtube and it is possible to lock these so that they can't be inadvertently removed.  Once you have put all of these controls in place have a browse and search for a few things to see what your children might see, if they were to do the same.  Remember that voice-activated search works really well now.
• Set Boundaries - It is never too early to start setting rules about when and for how long your child can use devices and start to introduce the subject of internet safety at the same time.  Encourage children to use devices in a shared space like the lounge or kitchen.  Make sure to keep other devices out of reach and use passwords so they can't go online without asking you first.  It's also a good idea to have tech-free mealtimes and not to allow children to have devices in their bedrooms at this age.
• Explore together - set your homepage to a child-friendly site such as CBeebies and give them a user account which only allows access to sites and apps you've chosen.
• Help them learn through games - Games are a great way for young children to explore the internet and learn about the world around them.  Choose a variety of safe and educational online games and apps to play with your child so that you'll feel more comfortable with them exploring.  Make use of websites and platforms designed specifically for pre-schoolers like CBeebies, YouTube Kids, Nick Jr, and use age ratings and reviews in the app store to check app suitability.

Online Safety Websites

Internet Matters is a website all about online safety giving useful information for different age groups

UK Safer Internet Centre is a website for online safety for parents and carers, giving tips, advice, guides and resources