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:
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, Whistleblowing, KCSIE, Managing Behaviour – September, 2021
Whole school: Statutory refresher training on Child Protection and Safeguarding: 05-10-21 – carried out by the Local Authority
Fire Awareness Training – October, 2021
Cyber Security Training for School Staff – March, 2022
Child Protection and Safeguarding at St. Peter’s, Keeping Children Safe in Education, Anti-Bullying, Behaviour, Safe Use of Social Media and Mobile Phone policies – September, 2022
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
Designated Safeguarding Lead (Katherine Ryan) training:
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
Peer on Peer Abuse – October 2021
E-Learning: Harmful Sexual Behaviour Prevention Toolkit – October 2021
Neglect Strategy Training – November 2021
Child Protection Network – March 2022
Safeguarding Communication Practitioner Forum – April 2022
Launch of Tameside Neglect Action Plan – June 2022
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
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
Deputy DSL and EHA Lead (Rachel Russell) training:
Multi-Agency Child Protection Foundation Course – May, 2023
Good Attendance Practice – October, 2023
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, 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
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