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• Persistently missing, staying out overnight or returning late with no plausible explanation;
• Returning after having been missing, looking well cared for despite having not been at home;
• Having keys to premises other than those known about;
• Low self-image, low self-esteem, self-harming behaviour including cutting, overdosing, eating

disorder, promiscuity;
• Truancy / disengagement with education;
• Entering or leaving vehicles driven by unknown adults;
• Going missing and being found in areas where the child or young person has no known links;
and/or

• Possible inappropriate use of the internet and forming on-line relationships, particularly with
adults.

These behaviours themselves do not indicate that a child is being trafficked, but should be considered
as indicators that this may be the case. If staff believe that a child is being trafficked, this will be reported
to the designated safeguarding lead for referral to be considered to children’s social care.

We will follow-up unexplained absences of any student with a telephone call from the school on the

morning of the first day of absence and notify social services if there is an unexplained absence of more
than two days of a student who is on the student safeguarding register. The DSL shall also inform the
applicable local authority of any student who has been absent without the school’s permission for a
continuous period of 10 school days or more, at such intervals as are agreed between the school and
the local authority. Additionally, the DSL will notify the applicable local authority (within which the
student resides) when not at RBIS Bangkok of any student who is going to be deleted from the admission
register where the student:

• has been taken out of school by his/her parents and are being educated outside the school
system e.g. home education; has ceased to attend RBIS and no longer live within reasonable
distance of RBIS;
• has been certified by a doctor as unlikely to be in a fit state of health to attend RBIS before ceasing
to be of compulsory school age, and neither he/she nor his/her parent has indicated the intention

to continue to attend our school after ceasing to be of compulsory school age;
• is in custody for a period of more than four months due to a final court order and RBIS does not
reasonably believe he/she will be returning at the end of the period or, has been permanently
excluded.

The applicable local authority must be notified as soon as the grounds for deletion are met, but no later
than the time of deleting the student’s name from the register. This will assist the local authority to fulfil

its duty to identify students of compulsory school age who are missing in education and follow up with
any student who might be in danger of not receiving an education and who might be at risk of abuse or
neglect.

Students being withdrawn from school: If a student is withdrawn from the school, all efforts will be
made to identify the school to which the student is being admitted; their confidential educational and
student protection records will be sent separately. If the parent/guardian/carer fails to provide

information regarding the new school, an urgent referral will be made to local governmental services.
Educational records sent to our school concerning a student who is not registered by the parent will be

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Rasami British International School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students
and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. It is our aim that all students fulfil their potential.