SAFEGUARDING
Worried about a child?
Our safeguarding team:
Worried about an adult who works or volunteers with children?
Please contact our Safeguarding Lead – Mr Buckley – and NO ONE else on the
staff - if you have a Safeguarding concern about an
adult working or volunteering in the school.
You can also contact the CEO of The Blue Kite Academy Trust – Mr Gary Evans,
if you are unable to discuss this with Mr Buckley.
Abbey Meads Community Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Child protection forms part of the school’s safeguarding responsibilities. Child protection is at the core of all we do and we will recruit our staff following safe recruiting procedures. All staff, governors and volunteers, including parent helpers, will be DBS checked before they can work or help in our school. Our staff will be trained in safeguarding, child protection and first aid procedures. The governors will regularly check the school site and procedures to ensure there is a very high standard of safety. Risk assessments will be in place for generic activities and school visits. Abbey Meads Community Primary School will review its emergency procedures and policies on a regular basis and we will have termly fire drills. Across the curriculum there will be many opportunities for the children to learn about safety e.g. road safety, fire safety, stranger danger and online safety.
Our school provides a safe, caring, positive and stimulating environment, free from discrimination or bullying, promoting the physical, moral and social development of the individual child, where children can learn and develop happily.
We are alert to the signs of abuse and neglect and will follow procedures to ensure that children receive effective support, protection and justice.
Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child’s welfare. We will ensure that our concerns about our pupils are discussed with parents/carers first. However, there may be a rare occasion when our concerns about your child may mean we have to consult other agencies even before we contact you. The procedures which we follow are laid down by the Swindon Safeguarding Partnership and we have a number of policies and procedures in place, that contribute to our safeguarding commitment, including our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy
Blue Kite Safeguarding Statement
Safeguarding is defined as:
· providing help and support to meet the needs of children as soon as problems emerge;
· protecting children from maltreatment, whether that is within or outside the home, including online;
· preventing impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development;
· ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care;
· promoting the upbringing of children with their birth parents, or otherwise their family network through a kinship care arrangement, whenever possible and where this is in the best interests of the children;
· taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes in line with the outcomes set out in the
Children’s Social Care National Framework.
Working Together To Safeguard Children (December 2023)
All adults working in our school maintain an attitude of ' it could happen here'. We recognise that staff, because of their contact with and knowledge of children in their care, are well placed to identify abuse, neglect and exploitation and offer support to children in need.
We will contact parents/carers should safeguarding concerns arise about their child, unless to do so would increase the risk of harm to the child. In this instance, we take further advice and guidance from our children’s social care team.
We maintain contemporaneous records of all safeguarding and child protection concerns, actions and communications.
We work in line with the DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe In Education’ and follow the information-sharing guidance included in this document and in
