Safeguarding
Children’s safety is always our highest priority.
Everyone within our Federation takes personal responsibility on a daily basis to ensure children are kept safe.
This is done through:
- Meeting Health and Safety standards
- Undertaking DBS checks all staff, students, governors and volunteers
- Ensuring that essential training is kept up to date (paediatric first aid, food safety, safeguarding etc)
- Securing our site, including data protection
- Liaising with outside agencies – Health Visitors, Social Care, SEN Services
- Meeting our Prevent Duty requirements
Safeguarding Children Statement
A Child-Centred approach to safeguarding
Throughout our Federation of Nursery Schools, the health, safety and wellbeing of all children is of paramount importance. We therefore work hard to ensure appropriate policies, procedures, staff training and monitoring is in place to provide a safe, supportive and caring learning environments in which children can flourish.
Safeguarding is about ensuring that everyone is safe from harm – safe from bullying, safe from people who could abuse, safe from discrimination or harassment, safe from all types of abuse –we strive to ensure that all feel safe in our schools.
Our schools aim to provide a positive, stimulating, caring and safe environment which promotes the social, physical, emotional and moral development of each child. We work hard to maintain a safeguarding ethos and culture whereby all children feel safe. In order to fulfil our responsibilities we adopt a child-centred approach.
This means that:
- Safeguarding systems and procedures are oriented around the wishes, feelings and best interests of children;
- We seek to give children a 'voice', listen to what they say, take them seriously and work collaboratively in order to meet their needs.
There may be occasions as a school where we have a concern about a child when we may have to consult other agencies in relation to their welfare or child protection concerns.
Further information can be found in our Safeguarding Policy, in the Policies page, here:
If you are concerned about a child please do not hesitate to speak to one of the following designated persons within our schools.
Crosfield Nursery School
Designated Safeguarding Lead: Danny Bissex, Executive Headteacher
Designated Safeguarding Officer: Sylvie Nichol, Operational Lead
Designated Safeguarding Officer: Anne Addo, SENDCo
Designated Safeguarding Officer: Tracey Hart, Senior Administrator and Compliance Officer
Selhurst Nursery School
Designated Safeguarding Lead: Sian Philpotts, Operational Lead
Designated Safeguarding Officer: Danny Bissex, Executive Headteacher
Designated Safeguarding Officer: Anne Addo, SENDCo
Designated Safeguarding Officer: Tracey Hart, Senior Administrator and Compliance Officer
The Lead Governor with responsibility for Safeguarding throughout our Federation is Damian Clark.
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