Areas of Safeguarding

• Child protection – ensuring that staff respond appropriately to any significant change in a child’s behaviour, report to the Designated Lead any unexplained bruising, marks or signs of possible abuse, report any deterioration in a child’s well-being, are trained to know signs of neglect and respond appropriately to comments children make that cause concern
• Training – ensuring that staff have access to quality training in aspects of safeguarding so they can recognise signs and symptoms of abuse and record/respond using the correct procedures
• Buildings and grounds – ensuring we offer a safe learning environment for children to thrive
• Outside learning – completing risk assessments prior to trips and visits for the establishment along with safe transport
• Visitors – checking DBS forms and qualifications and logging them on our Single Central Register
• Behaviour– promoting positive behaviours towards each other to create a warm, caring environment
• Parents/carers/families – offering a welcoming school and develop home/school links
• Curriculum – ensuring that our curriculum offers a wide range of opportunities for children to learn about safety and they have chances to talk and ask questions

Safeguarding in the Curriculum

PSHE education lessons provide the best context for this learning, as part of a whole school approach and can contribute to safeguarding by:

• Teaching pupils about healthy relationships and helping them recognise unhealthy relationships
• Helping pupils recognise inappropriate behaviour towards them or others and to access help
• Raising pupils’ awareness of abuse, gender-related and gang violence
• Addressing gender stereotypes and challenging the negative attitudes which lead to violence and abuse
• Teaching the language, skills and strategies that enable pupils to tackle and mitigate risks to their (or others’) physical or emotional safety, including bullying, unhealthy relationships, sexual exploitation, gangs, radicalisation, drug and alcohol use and other risky behaviours
• Teaching the knowledge, understanding and skills pupils need to keep safe online
• Broadening pupils’ understanding of concepts such as consent, equality, discrimination, power and exploitation as part of a broader curriculum
• Helping pupils to support and seek help for friends who are in unsafe situations
• Helping pupils to see how their own behaviour can at times put others at risk.
• Supporting the development of personal attributes such as self-esteem, resilience and self-confidence and skills such as managing risk, decision making, emergency aid.