Safeguarding
We provide a safe and secure environment for children, staff and visitors and promoting a climate where children and adults will feel confident about sharing any concerns they may have about their own safety or the well-being of others.
Anonymous reporting
If you have any concerns about the wellbeing and safety of any students and families, in school or outside of school, you can report using our anonymous SHARP service. The Safeguarding Team will take every single report seriously and will work together with students, parents, staff, and other professionals to support you and any other members of the school community.
Click on the image below to access SHARP - anonymous safeguarding concern reporting
Governors and staff contribute to make safeguarding children a priority. We aim to ensure that child protection concerns and referrals are handled sensitively, professionally and in ways that support the specific needs of the individual child.
Through providing a caring, safe and stimulating environment which promotes the social, physical and moral development of all our students, we aim to foster an atmosphere of trust, respect and security.
Our key Safeguarding team:
Designated Safeguarding and Prevent Lead:
Mr Harry Bailey, Assistant Principal: h.bailey@harrisgreenwich.org.uk
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads:
Mrs Sharon Galloway: s.galloway@harrisgreenwich.org.uk
Miss Megan Walker: m.walker@harrisgreenwich.org.uk
Safeguarding Governor:
Mrs Julia Dodds, Chair of Governors (contact clerk to the Governors: r.parker@harrisgreenwich.org.uk)
Urgent Out-of-Hours Safeguarding Concerns:
If you ever feel like you need emotional support, don’t keep things locked up in your head – it just festers there and can get worse. Tell your parents, or a pastoral manager, or another member of staff, or another adult you trust. Remember that no matter how bad things seem, ‘this too shall pass’. It does get better and there are lots of people around who want to help you.
There are other support networks out there too, who you can speak to anonymously:
Childline:
https://www.childline.org.uk/: This is a 24 hour help line for children and young people in the UK. Calls are free and you can text or speak to a counsellor. The number is 0800 1111
Papyrus:
https://www.papyrus-uk.org/#: This is a voluntary organisation supporting teenagers and young adults who are feeling suicidal. The number is 0800 068 4141
Samaritans:
https://www.samaritans.org/: This is a 24 hours service, every day of the year. You can email jo@samaritans.org or you can phone 116 123
This is a free online counselling via Samaritans.
MASH - Telephone referrals: 020 8921 3172 (Mon-Thur, 9.00-5.30pm, Fri 9.00-4.30pm)
Out of hours: 020 8854 8888
Secure Email: MASH-referrals@royalgreenwich.gov.uk
CAMHS Crisis Line: 020 3228 5980 (available 5pm-11pm Mon - Fri, 9am - 11pm Sat-Sun-Bank Holidays)
Oxleas Urgent Advice line: 0800 330 8590 (available 24 hours, i.e. when crisis line unavailable)
Our safeguarding poster, below, is displayed across the Academy site.
