Safeguarding at The Nottingham Emmanuel School

Mrs Featonby
Designated Safeguarding Lead & Young Carers Champion

I have worked at The Nottingham Emmanuel School since 2018 and have over 10 years of experience in safeguarding across various education settings. I am passionate about safeguarding and ensuring that our students achieve the best outcomes. I am proud to lead an experienced and dedicated team. As the Designated Safeguarding Lead, I am responsible for the strategic leadership of safeguarding and ensuring our students access the right support.

Mrs Brenham
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead & Young Carers Champion

Over the past twenty years working in an education setting, I have become very knowledgeable and supportive to both staff and students. I have a broad knowledge of networks and support agencies. This enables a holistic approach to safeguarding which in turn promotes happy and eager to learn students. As the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and Targeted Support Lead, my main responsibilities include working in partnership with parents and professionals and arranging support for students with a variety of agencies.

Information For Students

Do you need to talk to someone or tell someone something that you are worried or concerned about? Whether this is about you, a friend or a family member; there are lots of ways you can do this:

• You can speak to your Tutor or Year Leader
• You can speak to anyone from the Safeguarding Team
• You can speak to ANY member of staff at NES
• You can put your feelings in writing via email
• You can write your feelings and post them into the red post boxes outside all Year Leader offices and Mrs Brenham’s office. Students can use these to post concerns about themselves or others – these can also be anonymous.

Please come and see us if you need to talk or you would like more information about accessing support.

Mental Health & Wellbeing

It is so important that you are taking care of yourself, your mental health and emotional wellbeing. It is ok to not feel yourself sometimes. At NES we take the mental health and emotional wellbeing of our students and staff very seriously. If you are worried or concerned about your mental health or someone you know, please discuss with one of the members of staff above. If you would rather not talk about it, that’s ok too. Please click on any of the links below to find help and support.

Online Safety

By being part of the NES Community all students, parents and staff have access to our Safer Schools App. The Safer Schools App is a completely free service that supports students and parents by giving advice for all things online safety. The app was designed by a team of experts who monitor new apps, websites and platforms that children access to identify risks (and protective factors) to ensure that your safer schools app is always up to date.

Safer Schools England App

Keeping children safe is as important to us, as it is to you. Archway Learning Trust is launching again the newest version of the Safer Schools app. The app is designed by a team of experts to ensure that parents have the information that they need to protect their children from online risks. Research has shown that parents and carers are by far the most effective protective factor to reduce the online risks to children. The app was designed by a team of experts who monitor new apps, websites and platforms that children access to identify risks (and protective factors) to ensure that your safer schools app is always up to date.

Think of the app as a directory of helpful information about various popular apps and platforms and games that your child wants to/is accessing. You can scroll through the information to see what you didn’t know about the app/platform. You will also see links to more information should you want a greater depth understanding of something in particular. You will also receive notifications from the app that update you as a new function or feature comes out on widely used platforms so that you can trust the app to tell you the truth about what is happening or could happen in your child’s online world.

To download the app, open your phone App Store or Google Play Store and search for “Safer Schools England”. Once the app is downloaded, click the “parent” option for role and it should allow you to create an account.

You will then be asked to either “scan QR code” or search for The Nottingham Emmanuel School and enter the appropriate code:

Parents and Carers – 0393
Students (Y7-Y8) – 6968
Students (Y9-Y11) – 5363
Students (Sixth Form) – 7211