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More House School is firmly dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. To achieve our commitment, we will ensure continuous development and improvement of our robust safeguarding processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our staff and volunteers. We are committed to inspiring, challenging and safeguarding our pupils, enabling them to become successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens, who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives, whilst making a positive contribution, both socially and economically, to society.
At More House, safeguarding is about keeping all the boys safe, happy, and supported in all aspects of their lives. It’s not just about responding to serious concerns—it also includes early help; ensuring that the boys get the right support as soon as challenges arise.
Safeguarding at More House means:
- Protecting children from abuse, neglect, and harm.
- Providing a safe and supportive school environment.
- Helping children develop confidence, resilience, and wellbeing.
- Offering early help to children and families before small problems become big ones.
What do we mean by Early Help?
Early help is about supporting the boys as soon as difficulties arise, rather than waiting until a situation becomes more serious. It is a way of working together to prevent problems from escalating and to ensure that the boys feel safe, supported, and able to thrive.
Children may need Early Help for many reasons, including:
- Struggling with emotions, anxiety, or mental health.
- Difficulty making friends or feeling isolated.
- Problems at home, such as changes in family circumstances.
- Low self-esteem or confidence issues.
- Struggles with learning, behaviour, or attendance.
We provide Early Help in school by:
- Having trusted adults that pupils can talk to.
- Offering counselling, wellbeing and pastoral support.
- Running groups and activities to help build confidence and social skills.
- Teaching children strategies to manage emotions and build resilience.
- Working with outside agencies to provide specialist support if needed.
We can also offer support with:
- Parenting advice and guidance.
- Managing behaviour and emotional wellbeing at home.
- Support for children’s learning and attendance.
- Mental health and wellbeing support.
- Relationship difficulties and family challenges.
How we can work together to keep children safe:
- A safe and supportive school environment – we ensure the school is a safe place for every child, with policies on safeguarding, bullying and online safety.
- Trained staff – all staff receive safeguarding training and know how to identify early signs of concern.
- Encouraging children to speak up – we teach children that it’s okay to ask for help and talk about their worries.
- Working in partnership – we work with families and external agencies to provide extra support when needed.
If your child is struggling or if your family needs advice, you are not alone. We would encourage you to talk to us so that we can help. By working together, we can create a safe and supportive environment where every child thrives. If you have any concerns, big or small, please reach out. You can contact the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) – Amy Lee: 01252 792 303 / [email protected] / [email protected].
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The Lookout – safeguarding newsletter
Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) is a command of the National Crime Agency and is dedicated to tackling the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and young people. CEOP helps children and young people under the age of 18 who have been forced or manipulated into taking part, or are being pressured to take part, in sexual activity of any kind. This can be both online and offline. The CEOP Safety Centre offers information and advice for children and young people, parents and carers and professionals. You can visit the CEOP Safety Centre and make a report directly to CEOP by clicking the Click CEOP image.
Report Harmful Content (RHC) is a national reporting centre that has been designed to assist everyone in reporting harmful content online. Click on the image to start a report.
The Report Remove tool helps young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet. Click on the image to start a report.
Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child’s welfare. We will ensure that our concerns about a pupil are discussed with his parents or carers first, unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child’s welfare. If a member of staff is concerned about the welfare of a child or young person, they will record their concern, and any observations or conversation heard, and report to one of the Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) as soon as possible the same day.
Are you concerned about a child?
If you are ever concerned about the safety or wellbeing of someone who is part of our school community, please contact one of the school’s DSLs by email: [email protected] or call us on: 01252 792 303.
Contacting the Safeguarding team
Email: [email protected] or call: 01252 792303
The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) is:
Mrs Amy Lee (Head of Safeguarding): [email protected]
The Deputy DSLs are:
Ms Alex Rositano (Deputy Head, Head of Residential): [email protected]
Ms Georgie Barnes (Student Support and Attendance Officer): [email protected]
The nominated Safeguarding Governor is:
Mr Jack Malden: [email protected]
The Chair of Governors is:
Mr Glenn Handley: [email protected]
The Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) is:
Mrs Rita Dada
Contact details: [email protected] / 0300 123 1650 (option 3 – LADO)
We work in close partnership with Surrey County Council, other local authorities that our pupils reside in, Surrey Police and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).