Safeguarding

The staff and governors aim to keep children safe through:

• Providing a safe environment for them to learn in
• Identifying children who are suffering or are likely to suffer significant harm, and taking appropriate action to ensure that they are kept safe both at home and in the education setting.

To achieve this aim we:

• Take all possible actions to prevent unsuitable people from working with children
• Promote safe practice and challenge any poor or unsafe practice
• Identify instances where there are grounds for concern about a child's welfare and initiate or take appropriate action to keep them safe
• Contribute to effective partnership working between all those involved in providing services for our children

Our Safeguarding Policy can be opened on our Policies page.

Please note that any adult who has concerns about the welfare of a child has a duty to report this.

The Designated Safeguarding Lead is Mr Ian MacDonald

The Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads are Mrs Hannah Upston & Mrs Hannah Harmer 

The Prevent duty lead is Mr Ian MacDonald

The Online Safety Lead is Miss Alice Martin

The Named Governor for Safeguarding is Mrs Pippa Downton

All of the above named safeguarding leads can be contacted via the school office.

Our school is now part of Operation Encompass which is a national scheme that operates jointly between schools and police forces.

Operation Encompass is the reporting to schools, prior to the start of the next school day, when a child or young person has experienced domestic abuse.

As a school we have ensured that a member of our staff, (Designated Safeguarding Lead) known as a Key Adult, has been trained in the Operation Encompass procedures allowing us to then use the information that has been shared, in confidence, to support the child/ren in our care.

Please click on this link for more information.