SAFEGUARDING
Keeping children safe covers many topics including:
- Healthy eating and physical activity
- Emotional and mental health
- Emotional impact of parents’ mental health issues on children
- Healthy relationships
- Road, rail and water safety
- Medical needs and disability
- Neglect, including sleep deprived
- Children accessing age inappropriate content
- Appropriate adults – safer recruitment
- Bullying, including cyberbullying
- Child protection
- Health and safety, including first aid, site security and risk assessment
- LAC
- Domestic violence
- Drugs & alcohol abuse
- Radicalisation
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE)
- Sexting
- Fabricated or induced illness by adults towards children
- Faith abuse
- Female genital mutilation (FGM)
- Forced marriage
- Gangs and youth violence
- Gender-based violence
- Honour based violence
- Private fostering
- Peer on peer abuse
- Violence against women and girls (VAWG)
- Modern slavery
How we ensure safeguarding compliance.
School has many policies which are regularly reviewed, understood by staff and put into practice:
- Safeguarding and child protection, which includes radicalisation, CSE & FGM.
- Anti-bullying
- Behaviour management
- E –Safety
- Acceptable use of social media
- Health & Safety
- Educational Visits
- SEND
- Equality Scheme
- Pupil Premium
- Whistle blowing
- Managing allegations against adults
- Complaints’ policy
- British values
- Keeping children safe in education
- Guidance on safer working practices
- Asthma policy
- Attendance
- Data protection
- Healthy Eating & packed Lunch
- Pupil premium policy
- Missing Child Policy
- Non-collected Child
- Security
- Separated Parents’ Policy
- Relationships & Sex Education policy
- pupils with medical conditions
- Visitors to School
- Self-evaluation, including parents and children’s’ views.
- Confidentiality
Staff training
Whole school Training:
Child Protection whole school refresher (Sep 18), Graded Care (July 15)
FGM – Oct 14
LGBT – March 17 & April 17
PREVENT – Feb 19
TCSB 7 mins briefing – Nov 17
TCSB Threshold Assessment – Jan 20
Sexting – Oct 17
Mental Health Resilience June 18
Internal safeguarding memos
County Lines and Modern Slavery Oct/Nov 18
Parents E-Safety session 20th May 2019
KCSIE – September 2020
CSE – 27th Jan 2020
Child Protection and Safeguarding Refresher – 4th November, 2020
GDPR – September, 2020
Child Protection and Safeguarding at St. Peter’s, Anti-Bullying, Whistlebowing, KCSIE, Managing Behaviour – September, 2021
Designated Safeguarding Lead (Katherine Ryan) training:
DSL – Roles and responsibilities training – 18th Oct 2019
EHA training – 12th Nov 2019
Thresholds training – Jan 2020
TSCP Working Together to Safeguard Children – Foundation – July 2020
DSL Refresher Training – June 2021
Safer Recruitment Training – July 2021
Complex Safeguarding Training – July 2021
Practitioner Safeguarding Communication Forum – September, 2021
Deputy DSL (Richard Gould ) training:
Child Protection Refresher Level 2 – 13th July 2017
E-Safety Lead – September 2020 (receives regular alerts from LA.)
Sexting training – 11th Oct 2017
Complex Safeguarding – 15th Nov 18.
DSL training 14th January 2019
CP Online & E Safety – 20th June 2019
CP Network – 3rd July 2019
DSL – Roles and responsibilities training 18th Oct 2019
Safeguarding young people in a digital environment 22nd Nov 2019
SCR, DBS and other vetting checks training – 27th Jan 2020
Neglect Strategy Launch – 5th Feb 2020
Keeping Children Safe Online – July, 2020
DSL Refresher Training – June 2021
E-Safety Training – September 2021
Governor responsible for Safeguarding (Ann-Marie Worrall)
Safeguarding for Governors – 26th Feb 2018
Safer Recruitment Refresher Training – 10th Oct. 2018
PREVENT training – 4th April 2019, May 2021
Early Help Assessment (formerly common assessment framework: CAF) Lead (Mrs Hilary Williams)
EHA Training – July 2021
Signs of Safety Training booked for October 2021
Health & Safety Co-Ordinator (Tricia Chadwick)
H & S Working at Height – Nov 17
Site Manager Training – July 18
H& S Risk Assessment – Oct 18
First Aiders at work training x 8 staff (rolling programme of training)
Paediatric training x 8 staff (rolling programme of training)
Defibrillator training – March 2019
Defibrillator training – Nov 19
Carrying out and Recording Risk Assessments – January, 21
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities of the Health and Safety co-ordinator – June, 2021
Health and Safety in Schools – July 2021
For a link to Tameside’s safeguarding page and detailed information on Tameside’s safeguarding please click here: Tameside Safeguarding Link
Please also click the above link if you are worried about a child.
For a link to the government document ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ please click here: Keeping children safe in education – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Safeguarding – how we teach it.
Safeguarding is inherent throughout the curriculum on a daily basis. During the year we have a specific focus on some safeguarding topics and use national awareness themes.
Autumn 1
fire drill, rights of the child, being a good citizen, multi- faiths, safe squad, fire safety, keeping safe on the railways
Autumn 2
anti bullying, disability awareness, E safety, emotional and mental health
Spring 1
lock down drill, safer internet day, sexting, emotional & mental health, Y5 Barnardo’s training on healthy relationships
Spring 2
fire drill, canal & water safety , healthy eating, sleep awareness, NSPCC keeping safe workshops & assemblies
Summer 1
road safety, emergency evacuation drill, physical activity
Summer 2
water & rail, Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE), Friendship Day
Our ethos promotes ‘Celebrating Differences’ which is embedded throughout our curriculum, ensuring that our school community accepts and welcomes diversity, including ethnicity, disability, family and relationship choices and much more.
Katherine Ryan – July 2021