Safeguarding
Multi agency training opportunities are available through the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board. Click here to access more information.
This video highlights the inappropriate and uncomfortable reactions parents get when a complete stranger says they want to follow their children. Parents are encouraged to reflect upon this from the point of view of social networking and online communities. If you would not allow it in real life, then how different it that from online friends and followers? A fantastic eye-opening social experiment. #followme
Schoolbeat officers
The primary responsibilities of the role ;
- Build trusting relationships with children from Year 6 through to Year 11
- Deliver 500hrs of educative inputs per school year, based on the PSHE curriculum and force operational priorities, to Year 6 through to Year 9 pupils
- Participate in and, where relevant, facilitate restorative interventions involving children from their allocated schools
- Facilitate timely and effective information sharing between police and schools aimed at preventing and intervening as early as possible
- Co-ordinate the delivery of educative inputs by NHP PCSOs within primary schools
- Cascade learning and upskill NHP PCSOs in relation to school engagement
To contact your locality Schoolbeat officer please email:
PC Kim Murphy – Gloucester kimberley.murphy@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk
PC Leah Davis – Cotswolds leah.davis@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk
PC Greg Steer – Forest of Dean gregory.steer@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk
PC Mark Weedon – Stroud mark.weedon@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk
PC Candice Palmer – Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Gloucester candice.palmer@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk
PC Pete Curtis - Tewkesbury peter.curtis@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk
PC Al Forrester - Cheltenham allen.forrester@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk
Or for general enquiries they can be contacted at Schoolbeat@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk
Online Sexual Harm
This guide has been developed to address the challenges professionals face when working with issues of online harm and young people.
It contains information about what online harm is, the specific issues facing young people, and ways professionals can effectively engage with young people and their families.
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Advice for governing bodies, proprietors, headteachers, principals, senior leadership teams and designated safeguarding leads
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