To contact us about a safeguarding matter please email: dsl@bedgroveinfant.co.uk
Introduction
Safeguarding is a preventative agenda that helps children to achieve their full potential, regardless of negative factors such as poverty or social exclusion, by providing services and support to overcome barriers to achievement.
Bedgrove Infant recognises that pupils may face many barriers to learning that may affect their prospects in later life. The school will safeguard and promote pupils’ welfare by focusing on preventative actions and services, so that all pupils are able to fulfil their potential. Bedgrove Infant will promote pupils’ health by educating them on healthy diets and lifestyles, using the healthy schools programme and through school policy, for example: E-safety, Behaviour for Learning, Sex and Relationships Education, Drugs Education and Anti-bullying.
Bedgrove Infant will work closely with health professionals to monitor pupils’ health and ensure that pupils’ with health needs receive the extra support they need to fully participate in education.
A Definition of Safeguarding
Safeguarding is a broad agenda and covers the following:
- protecting children from maltreatment;
- preventing impairment of children’s health or development;
- ensuring children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care;
- enabling children to have optimum life chances so they can enter adulthood successfully.
Designated Safeguarding Leads
Mrs L Sim
Deputy Headteacher/ Lead DSL
Mrs R Albrighton
HR Officer/ DSL
Miss E Grant
SENDCO/ Deputy DSL
Mrs S Quirk
Safeguarding Governor
Mrs C Lee
Head of Early Years / ITT Lead/ Deputy DSL
Miss J Lawrence
Headteacher/ Deputy DSL
Safeguarding Aims
Bedgrove Infant aims to provide a safe learning environment where pupils are:
- kept safe from accidents whilst at school and during outings;
- protected from maltreatment through the implementation of Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board’s Safeguarding procedures and Safe Recruitment practices;
- taught to keep themselves safe via safety messages delivered through the curriculum and other forums;
- taught how to stay safe on-line and report any inappropriate material;
- made aware of the adults in school who they can talk to;
- able to feel supported, safe and protected and able to raise concerns.
Safety messages will be delivered via the curriculum, and pupils will be provided with opportunities to discuss issues they feel are affecting their safety, at school and within the community.
Early Help
We at Bedgrove Infant believe that all of our parents and carers may need support at one time or another. One of the avenues that we have available to us is Early Help.
Early Help can become involved through a referral from School, GP’s and/or other services. It is a multi-agency approach which involves all professionals involved with the family, for example, School, Health Visitor etc. From receipt of the referral, the MASH team (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub) will be passing on the information to the Early Help Team. This can take up to a week. A family support worker will be allocated and will contact the family and the school.
Early Help Service can offer advice and guidance as well as practical, hands-on support, with a whole family approach. Early Help will work alongside you with other professionals to enable you to make and sustain the changes needed to improve your family situation.
Supporting you and your family, and understanding your concerns, Early Help will create an action plan describing how they will work together to help you, supported by other professionals and services.
Early Help want to understand your family’s strengths and what is not working so well. To do this, Early Help will work in partnership with you and, with your consent, alongside colleagues from school, who are also able to help. Working together, Early Help will address the issues you and your family are facing and, over time, build your confidence, knowledge and skills to enable you to deal with future challenges.
Early Help offers:
- A two-way conversation
- Practical hands on support
- Advice and guidance
- Whole family approach
For further information please contact Senco@bedgroveinfant.co.uk .
Prevent
From the 1st July 2015 schools and childcare providers have been issued with new advice and social media guidance to help them keep children safe from the risk of radicalisation and extremism.
The advice has been published to coincide with the new prevent duty, introduced as part of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, which legally requires a range of organisations including schools to take steps to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.
Schools and childcare providers already play a vital role in keeping children safe from harm, including from the risks of extremism and radicalisation, and in promoting the welfare of children in their care.
The Prevent Duty: DfE Guidance (June 2015) can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevent-duty-guidance
See link below for Government guidance and support for Parents, Carers and Educators:
www.educateagainsthate.com
Safeguarding Guidance
Advice to parents and carers on keeping children safe from abuse and harm
Keeping Children Safe in Education – Sept 2024
BIS Safeguarding leaflet
E-safety Leaflet for Parents and Carers: Keeping Safe Online
Working Together to Safeguard Children Statutory Framework 2018
Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills setting September 2018
Safeguarding Policies
Please click on the link below to view our Safeguarding policies:
Safeguarding Policies