Safeguarding Children at Wallsend St Peter’s C of E Primary School
St Peter’s fully recognises the responsibility it has to have arrangements about safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
We take a range of actions to ensure that children are safe:
§ All staff are subject to a criminal records bureau enhanced disclosure
§ We check the identity information for all visiting teaching staff and other professionals
§ The school building has secured entrances and exits
§ All personnel wear identity badges and visitors are required to sign in
§ We have a regularly reviewed child protection policy
§ The Head Teacher is the school’s nominated child protection officer, with three deputies in this role
§ Risk assessments are undertaken for all educational visits and are completed for all areas of the school premises
We comply with the Local Authority’s policies and procedures around safe practices for Health and Safety.
With this in mind, we respectfully ask parents to only access school buildings via the main school office. If you have an appointment to meet with a member of staff, please sign in at the school office and you will be escorted to the appropriate room.
Designated Safeguarding Lead:
Miss Bilton - Head Teacher
Designated Safeguarding Deputies:
Mrs Elliott
Mrs Philips
Miss McFarlane
The statutory responsibilities are noted within the following legislation:
Section 175 of the Education Act 2002 states;
Maintained school means a community, foundation or voluntary school, a community or foundation special school or a maintained nursery school. The Education Act 2002 does not specifically refer to Academies; however this duty is equally placed onto Academies by subsequent updated legislation.
This legislation makes child protection responsibilities clear and places an obligation on schools to ensure that these responsibilities are met in full.
Child means a person under the age of eighteen.
Keeping Children Safe in Education (Sept 2018) outlines:
Safeguarding and promoting children’s welfare is everyone’s responsibility and includes providing a safe environment in which children can learn. Everyone who comes in to contact with children and their families/carers has a role, to play in safeguarding children. All school staff are particularly important as they are in a position to identify concerns early and provide help for children and prevent escalation. Early Help means providing support as soon as a problem emerges. Approaches should be child centred and consider at all times the best interests of the child
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined in statutory guidance Working Together (2018) as:
Operation Encompass
We are proud to be an Operation Encompass school. This means that we will receive information from Northumbria Police if there has been a reported domestic abuse incident that the children may have seen, heard or been part of. This can be distressing for the child, but by receiving this information early the next morning we can support your child in school in the best way possible. If you would like more information about his please visit the websites for more information.
https://beta.northumbria.police.uk/advice-and-info/parents-and-kids/operation-encompass/
https://www.operationencompass.org/