The child’s welfare is of paramount importance. Our school will establish and maintain an ethos where pupils feel secure, are encouraged to talk, are listened to and are safe. Children at our school will be able to talk freely to any member of staff at our school if they are worried or concerned about something.
Our school fully recognises the contribution it can make to protect children from harm and supporting and promoting the welfare of all children who are registered pupils at our school. The elements of our policy are prevention, protection and support.
We have an up to date policy at Yaxham Church of England VA Primary School. That ensures every child who is a registered pupil at our school is safe and protected from harm. This means we will always work to:
- Protect children and young people at our school from maltreatment;
- Prevent impairment of our children’s and young people’s health or development;
- Ensure that children and young people at our school grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care;
- Undertake that role so as to enable children and young people at our school to have the best outcomes.
Current Roles and Responsibilities in the school are follows:
| Role |
Name |
Contact Details |
| Senior Designated Safeguarding Lead |
Mrs Jennie Müller |
01362 692033
head@yaxham.norfolk.sch.uk
|
| Alternate Designated Safeguarding Lead |
Mrs Mary-Ann Knee |
01362 692033
foxes@yaxhamprimaryschool.co.uk
|
| Named Safeguarding Governor |
Mr Leroy Burrell |
office@yaxham.norfolk.sch.uk |
| Chair of Governors |
Mrs Michelle Parnell |
chairofgov@yaxham.norfolk.sch.uk |
The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)The Designated Safeguarding Lead(s) will carry out their role in accordance with the responsibilities outlined in Annex B of ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. The DSL will provide advice and support to other staff on child welfare and child protection matters. Any concern for a child’s safety or welfare will be recorded in writing and given to the DSL.
- will take all possible steps to safeguard our children and to ensure that the adults in our school are safe to work with children. We will always ensure that the procedures outlined in Norfolk Safeguarding Children Board Protocol: Allegations Against Persons who Work with Children and Part 4 of ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, DfE (2015) are adhered to and will seek appropriate advice from the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO).
The LADO can be contacted on 01603 223473.
If you have general concerns or questions on keeping children safe you can visit
Norfolk County Council’s website on Keeping Children Safe.
Yaxham Safeguarding Guide for Visitors/Contractors and Volunteers
Safeguarding and Child Protection are the most important parts of everyone’s jobs at Yaxham Church of England VA Primary School.
To protect both children and the adults who work with them, the school operates a policy of restricting unsupervised contact with children to those who have been correctly vetted.
All adults who work regularly with our children are required to undertake a DBS check which must be completed before beginning to work with our young people.
Yaxham’s Schools safeguarding policies and procedures are compliant with Norfolk Safeguarding Children’s Board (NSCB), which has ultimate responsibility for child protection.
If you have any concerns about a young person you meet at Yaxham Church of England VA Primary School, you should immediately report to one of our Senior Designated Professionals.
Online Safety and Teaching
At Yaxham CE VA Primary School we recognise that it is more important than ever that we provide a safe environment for pupils including online. We will continue to ensure that appropriate filters and monitoring systems are in place to protect children when they are online via our IT systems and/or recommended resources.
The safety of pupils when they are asked to work online is of paramount importance. The same principles as set out our staff code of conduct are applied to all online teaching. All staff should ensure that they have read the staff code of conduct and associated safer working practice guidance and are clear about the acceptable use of technologies, staff pupil/student relationships and communication including the use of social media.
We will ensure any use of online learning tools and systems is in line with privacy and data protection/GDPR requirements.
We will ensure that children who are being asked to work online have very clear reporting routes in place so they can raise any concerns whilst online. As well as reporting routes to key school staff, we will also signpost children to age appropriate practical support from external organisations such as:
We will also communicate with parents to reinforce the importance of children being safe online. We will ensure that parents and carers are aware of what their children are being asked to do online, including the sites they will asked to access as well as who from the school (if anyone) their child is going to be interacting with online.
Advice for keeping children safe online