Pajes, the Jewish Leadership Council’s schools network, has launched a series of evenings with the Metropolitan Police to help parents safeguard their children following attempts to groom pupils in Jewish schools.

It will alert parents in particular to the risks of children being exploited through contact on social media.

The first evening took place at Immanuel College last month, with another at Beth Jacob Grammar School last week and others planned at JFS, Hasmonean and Yavneh next month.

Rabbi David Meyer, executive director of Pajes, urged all parents to come to one “even if it is not through the school that their child is attending”.

The sessions highlight four key questions for parents to ask, he said, “Where is your child going? Who is your child with? When will your child be back? How will your child get home?”

Esther Pearlman, head of another Jewish school, Menorah High School for Girls, wrote to parents to encourage them to attend one of the sessions.

Police, she said, were concerned about “threats to the safety of our children that we are insufficiently aware of”.

Pajes hopes to roll the programme out to other Jewish secondary schools in the months ahead.

*Pajes has relaunched its online directory for applicants to Jewish schools, findajewishschool.org.uk .