Hatchlands
Primary School
Our Safeguarding offer
Hatchlands Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The health, safety and well-being of every child are our paramount concern. We listen to our pupils and take seriously what they tell us.
We recognise that for children, high self-esteem, confidence, supportive friends and clear lines of communication with a trusted adult, helps prevent the chances of them being abused.
Our school aims to:
- Practice safe recruitment by checking the suitability of staff and volunteers to work with children
- Raise awareness of child protection issues and equip children with the skills needed to keep them safe
- Develop and implement procedures for identifying and reporting cases/suspected cases of abuse
- Establish a safe environment in which children can learn and develop
- Maintain an ethos where children feel secure, are encouraged to talk and are listened to
- Ensure that children know that there are adults in the school who they can approach if they are worried or are in difficulty
- Include PSHE activities and opportunities to equip children with the skills they need to stay safe from abuse
- Support pupils who have been subject to abuse in accordance with the agreed child protection plan
Our Safeguarding Team
Our Safeguarding and Wellbeing Offer
Leadership/ Governance
- DSLs attend relevant training and disseminate to staff
- All Governors receive safeguarding training annually
- Link Governor for safeguarding
- SLT and all staff receive weekly safeguarding reminders / updates from Andrew Hall
- Head Teacher’s report half termly safeguarding update
- Surrey Safeguarding Audit (Annually)
- Clear lines of accountability
- Half termly monitoring/review CPOMS
- Culture of openness and support
- Termly meetings with DSL and safeguarding governor/ safeguarding link report
Communication
- Children have been taught to tell a member of staff if a visitor does not have a lanyard or sticker
- Safeguarding leaflet for visitors
- Safeguarding posters in all classrooms and communal areas
- Relevant Safeguarding policies
- Safeguarding Executive Meetings
- Assemblies – key messages, keeping safe
- PSHE curriculum - Class lessons, circle times
- School Ambassadors
- Pupil questionnaires
- Clear protocols for information sharing
- ‘Keeping Safe’ safeguarding information board for children
Training
- Annual safeguarding training for all staff
- Additional Judicium and National College modules e.g. GDPR, Online safety, Child exploitation etc.
- Prevent training
- Safeguarding training as part of induction and probation reviews
- CPOMS training delivered at induction
- Staff know how to identify children who are at risk of harm
- Staff know how to contact Children’s services (CSPA) in absence of DSLs
- DSL attends relevant training/network mtgs
- Questions/scenarios related to safeguarding in staff briefings
- Staff have signed, read and confident with relevant safeguarding policies
Safeguarding Systems
- SCR
- DBS checks for all staff and volunteers
- Safeguarding policy
- CPOMs
- DSL to monitor CPOMS half termly and provide report
- Safeguarding Executive Meetings
- Staff sign to say they have read relevant policies/documents
- Safeguarding audit
- Staff sign annual safeguarding disclosure form
- Sign in and out system for staff and volunteers
- Safeguarding training log with dates for all staff
- Systems if a child is absent
Mindset
- Professional curiosity
- ‘It could happen here’
- Empowering children to keep themselves safe
