Safeguarding at Lanterna Education

For general information, please have a look at our Lanterna Online Tutoring Safeguarding Policy.

If you haven’t completed our Safeguarding training, please let us know via tutoring@lanterna.com or tutoring@eliteib.co.uk and we will provide you with a link.

In cases where you need to report a possible safeguarding concern, please use our Student Safeguarding Reporting Form. In addition to this, you can also request to schedule a call with a team member via tutoring@lanterna.com or tutoring@eliteib.co.uk (depending on which portal you’re linked with the student). Note, it is important that we receive the filled out form before this potential call takes place.

The 4 R's

The four R's is a simple framework for ensuring that you are adequately prepared to handle safeguarding concerns. They represent the succession of obligations you should meet if a student makes a disclosure to you.

The four R's are:

Recognise

You need to be able to recognise a possible concern as well as the signs of abuse that students may show through their behaviour, body language, mood and more.

Respond

You must understand how to respond to any disclosure a student makes, or any concern you have.

It is important to show the young person that you are listening, to give them time to make their disclosure at their own pace, and to show that you care.

If something happens that concerns you, it's your responsibility to share that information with the right person or authority.

This might be the parent, the school, Lanterna or EIB the authorities like the police or NSPCC directly.

Report

Know who to speak to if you have a concern.

If you have a concern about a child’s safety or wellbeing, you should always share this in line with our safeguarding procedures. You should explain to the young person that you need to tell someone, even if they don’t want you to.

Record

The NSPCC says:

“It’s important for you to keep accurate and detailed notes of any concerns you have about a child.  Your notes should include what the child said or did that made you concerned. If the child or young person disclosed verbally, write down their exact words.

If they have drawn pictures of what happened to them, you should keep these with a date on them.

You need to record your observations, your concerns and the actions you and others have or have not taken.

You also need to record how you asked the child or young person for consent to share information in order to keep them safe, how well they understood what you said and what their response was.

If they did not give consent for you to share information, you will need to record this too. You should make notes about the discussion you had with the child or young person, including how you explained that you still need to go ahead and share information in order to keep them safe.”