National Crime Agency – Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP)

CEOP is here to keep children safe from sexual abuse and grooming online.

You can make a report directly to the CEOP Safety Centre by clicking on the Click CEOP button if something has happened online which has made you feel unsafe, scared or worried. This might be from someone you know in real life, or someone you have only ever met online. CEOP take all reports seriously and we will do everything we can to keep you safe.

As well as making a report to the CEOP Safety Centre, the CEOP Education website has information and advice to help you if something has happened to you online.

Are you being bullied?
CEOP are unable to respond to reports about bullying but if you’re being bullied and would like to talk to someone in confidence right now you can speak to Childline on 0800 1111 or talk to them online – no worry is too big or too small.

National Online Safety

The online world is posing an ever-increasing risk to children, and it is important that schools, parents and carers work together to take an active role in teaching children about online dangers. Learning how to act safely when using the internet is an incredibly important part of safeguarding our children.

We are therefore delighted to announce that Lammas School and Sixth Form have shown our commitment to protecting our pupils online by working with National Online Safety- providing resources for all parents and carers.

The resources include Parents & Carers courses (presented by Myleene Klass), online video resources and weekly guides covering a huge range of topics.

You can access National Online Safety via their website or by downloading their app.

To create your account, please follow https://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/lammas-school-and-sixth-form and complete your details. When you’re set up, you’ll be able to set ‘Parent/Carer’ as your user type.

Place2Be

Lammas has partnered with Place2Be, a national charity with 30 years experience supporting schools to improve the confidence and well-being of children and young people.

Place2be provides emotional and therapeutic support to young people enabling them to think about any worries they might have. They provide one-to-one and group counselling using tried and tested methods backed by research.  Our students can be referred to Place2Be by a member of the Student Care Team or can self-refer by emailing place2talk@thelammas.com. If you require more information, please contact your Year Leader.

Place2Be also provides support to parents and staff. Please take the time to visit their website and Parenting Smart portal to access a wide range of resources.

City Year

City Year UK is a youth and education charity which empowers 18 to 25-year-olds, from all backgrounds, to tackle educational inequality through a year of full-time volunteering in schools.

The Lammas School works with City Year to identify students in years 7-11 who could benefit from extra support and match them with a near-peer mentor. City Year mentors inspire their students to succeed through coaching and mentoring, supporting them to develop their social, emotional and academic skills to thrive in school and beyond.

As part of the school community, City Year mentors also support the wider school through in-class support and providing extracurricular activities.

If you would like to find out more, you can visit the City Year UK website.

Safer Schools Officer

As part of a London wide initiative, we have a safer schools Police officer whose job is to work alongside the school and families to support our young people. The aim of the SSo is to reduce the prevalence of crime, anti-social behaviour and victimisation amongst young people and to reduce the number of incidents and crimes in schools and their wider communities. Furthermore, they hope to provide a safe and secure school community which enhances the learning environment.

We are an Operation Encompass School

The Lammas School is and has been an Operation Encompass School since 2018. Operation Encompass is a national scheme that operates jointly between schools and all police forces.

Operation Encompass means that our school will be told, prior to the start of the next school day, when police have attended an incident of domestic abuse where there is a child or young person who attends our school who is related to any of those involved in the incident.

Operation Encompass will ensure that a member of the school staff, (usually the Designated Safeguarding Lead-DSL or a member of the school safeguarding team) known as a Key Adult, is trained to allow them to liaise with the police and to use the information that has been shared, in confidence, while ensuring that the school is able to make provision for possible difficulties experienced by children, or their families, who have been experienced a domestic abuse incident.

Kooth – Online Wellbeing Service

Kooth is a free, safe and anonymous online well-being service for
children and young people that Lammas has bought access to for its students.

Kooth Website
Kooth – Parent and Carer Brochure
Kooth – Top tips on how to talk to your children about their feelings
Kooth – FAQs