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– and many offer drop-in clinics or appointments, with referrals to other specialists if more in-depth help is required. The need for children to be heard and understood starts at a young age, with schools increasingly sensitive to the things that really matter when you’re very little. It could be as small as a favourite teddy going missing – but the way it’s dealt with can have long-lasting effects. The Everyone’s Invited website has also flagged up the need to ensure that pastoral care programmes include the incredibly difficult issues of abuse that
their campaign has raised. Over 50,000 people have now shared their – often tough to read – descriptions of such incidents. Putting this information into the public domain should mean the topic can never again be hidden. It’s an area that every school is starting to address, working with experts, families and pupils themselves. Some have invited safeguarding specialists to review the way the schools function as a whole – even looking at how staff work with and treat each other – with the goal of making relationships throughout the school community healthy and
THE NEED FOR CHILDREN TO BE HEARD STARTS AT A YOUNG AGE
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