Baldwins Hill Primary School Safeguarding Statement

Baldwins Hill Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We strive to ensure that consistent effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, children and staff at school.

Designated Safeguarding Lead:

Baldwins Hill Primary School has policies and procedures in place to deal effectively with child protection and safeguarding issues together with recording and monitoring processes.

To promote a safe environment for young people at Baldwins Hill primary School, our selection and recruitment policy includes all statutory checks on staff and regular volunteers including enhanced DBS (disclosure and barring service) checks.

All staff are trained to understand their responsibilities in relation to signs of abuse and responsibility to refer any concerns to the Designated Safeguarding Lead. In addition, the Designated Safeguarding Lead ensures that all staff read and understand Part 1 of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 and keeps a record of when this was done.

All concerns are passed to Jenny Dabell who is the “Designated Safeguarding Lead” in school in compliance with the HM Government “sharing of information” guidance July 2018. Staff are required to report any causes of concern to the Designated Safeguarding Lead, or, in her absence a Deputy Safeguarding Lead who is trained to the same level.

Attendance is monitored closely and concerns are shared as appropriate with parents/carers, the Education Welfare Officer, Integrated Front Door and the school Safeguarding Team. Baldwins Hill Primary School will work effectively with other agencies and parents/carers when necessary to safeguard young people.

Further Advice and Support

If you have a safeguarding concern about a member of our school community or have a question regarding a safeguarding matter, please ask to speak to one of the members of the safeguarding team named above. If they are unavailable, please ask to speak to the next available member of senior staff.

You can also use the following link to report your concerns directly to West Sussex Integrated Front Door: www.westsussexscp.org.uk/report-a-concern-about-a-child

• Email: wschildrenservices@westsussex.gov.uk
• Telephone: 01403 229900
• Out of hours telephone number: 0330 2226664 (5.00pm–8.00pm weekdays and weekends)

Operation Encompass

We are part of Operation Encompass, which ensures that we receive notifications from police of any domestic abuse incidents involving children (incidents in which a child was present, ordinarily resides as the incident location or with an involved party).

Harmful Sexual Behaviours

Click on the image to access traffic light tools to support with recognising worrying sexual behaviours – for parents and carers.

www.parentsprotect.co.uk/traffic-light-tools

Pantosaurus

Use the Pantosaurus resources and video below to discuss with your children about how they can keep themselves safe – Talk PANTS. Talk PANTS is here to help children understand that their body belongs to them, and they should tell a safe adult they trust if anything makes them feel upset or worried.

Let’s talk PANTS

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