Safeguarding

SAFEGUARDING

Keeping children safe covers many topics including:

  • Healthy eating and physical activity
  • Emotional and mental health
  • Emotional impact of mental health issues on children
  • Healthy relationships
  • Road, rail and water safety
  • Medical needs and disabilities
  • Neglect
  • Sleep hygiene
  • Children accessing age-inappropriate content
  • Appropriate adults – safer recruitment and ‘safe people’ in school
  • Bullying, including cyberbullying
  • Child protection
  • Health and safety, including first aid, site security and risk assessment
  • Cared-for Children
  • Domestic violence
  • Drug & alcohol abuse
  • Radicalisation
  • Child sexual exploitation (CSE)
  • Youth-produced sexual imagery
  • Fabricated or induced illness
  • 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
  • The protected characteristics
  • British values

 

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
  • Policy for Positive Handling and Physical Intervention

 

Staff training

Whole school Training:

Fire Safety Awareness – April, 2023

Child Protection and Safeguarding at St. Peter’s, Keeping Children Safe in Education, Anti-Bullying, Behaviour, Safe Use of Social Media, Health and Safety and E-Safety policies – September, 2023

PREVENT Training – November, 2023

Positive Handling and Physical Intervention – January, 2024

Child Protection and Safeguarding at St. Peter’s, Keeping Children Safe in Education, Behaviour, Safe Use of Social Media, Health and Safety, E-Safety policies – September, 2024 

CPI Training (Crisis Prevention Institute) – June, 2025

Designated Safeguarding Lead (Katherine Ryan) training:

E-Safety – January 2023

Child Exploitation – March 2023

Refresher Training in Child Protection – May, 2023

EHASH (Early Help and Safeguarding Hub) Launch – June, 2023

Digital Safeguarding – June, 2023

Digital Safeguarding Update – September, 2023

Ambiguous Loss – DSL cluster, May, 2025

Level 3 DSL Training (refresher) – May, 2025

Deputy DSL (Sinead Barber) training:

Staff who are new to the DSL role – November, 2021

Working Together to Safeguard Children: Foundation Course Part 1 – January, 2022

Working Together to Safeguard Children: Foundation Course Part 2 – March, 2022

DSL Refresher Training – September, 2024

Deputy DSL and EHA Lead (Rachel Russell) training:

Multi-Agency Child Protection Foundation Course – May, 2023

Good Attendance Practice – October, 2023

Level 3 DSL Training (refresher) – May, 2025

Governor responsible for Safeguarding (Ann-Marie Worrall)

Safer Recruitment Refresher Training – 10th Oct. 2018

PREVENT training – 4th April 2019, May 2021, November 2023

St. Peter’s Child Protection and Safeguarding training, September 2024

Site Manager (Mrs Michelle Taylor)

Safeguarding Children: Level 1 – March 2023

Health and Safety in the Workplace – April 2023

Lone Working – January 2024

PPE – January 2024

Asbestos Awareness (Tameside MBC) – February 2024

Safe Use of Ladders, Manual Handling, Premises Management, COSHH for site staff – November 2024

 

If you are worried about a child, please click the following link: Report child abuse – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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, NSPCC keeping safe workshops & assemblies

Spring 1

Lock down drill, safer internet day, youth produced sexual imagery, emotional & mental health

Spring 2

Fire drill, canal & water safety , healthy eating, sleep awareness

 

Summer 1

Road safety, emergency evacuation drill, physical activity

 

Summer 2

Water Safety, Positive and Healthy Relationships

 

Our ethos promotes ‘Sharing Similarities’ and ‘Celebrating Differences’ which is embedded throughout our curriculum, ensuring that our school community accepts and welcomes diversity, including  ethnicity, disability, family and relationship choices.

Our scheme for Personal, Social and Health Education and for Relationships Education is Ten:Ten. Please use the following link to access the parent portal for this scheme: https://www.tentenresources.co.uk/parent-portal/

Here you will be able to find out exactly what your child has been learning in PSHE and RSHE each term. There are activities to supplement children’s learning which you may wish to do at home. We hope you enjoy these resources and that they are helpful.

 

Katherine Ryan – September, 2024