Safeguarding children and protecting them from harm is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play.
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is :
- protecting children from maltreatment;
- preventing impairment of children’s health or development;
- ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and
- taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.
Safeguarding Within Our Curriculum
Our school has three curriculum pathways followed by our pupils, these curriculums are underpinned by our three Key Drivers: Communication, Wellbeing and Independence. Our school values of Respect, Teamwork and Resilience are also at the heart of our curriculums.
Our curriculums are designed to ensure that our pupils are explicitly taught to keep themselves safe within school, at home, in the community and within their life going forward, in the most appropriate way for the pupils.
Please see the below document for a detailed view of how safeguarding is embedded within our curriculums, for all of our students.
Working with Our Pupils
The Safeguarding team have been working with our Student Council to update the documents that we use to keep our pupils safe. We worked with them to design and create two new ‘Pupil Friendly’ versions of our policy documents, listening to their ideas and comments to ensure they were fit for purpose.
The documents have now been introduced to classrooms to support pupils with keeping safe in school, and knowing who their trusted adults are.
We have also worked with our therapy team in school to create other documents for school to ensure all pupils know the communications to keep themselves safe. These will be used in areas of personal care and within classrooms.
You can see the documents below:
Safeguarding Letters
Every term a safeguarding letter is produced for parents and carers, see past issues below: