Safeguarding

Safeguarding children

Safeguarding Team

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families and carers has a role to play in safeguarding children.

At Collingwood Primary School Mrs K Butters is our Designated Safeguarding Lead and responsible for Child Protection.

Mrs Butters

Deputy Head & Designated Safeguarding Lead

Emily Pingree

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead & Emotional Well-being Lead

Mr Whitworth

Online Safety Lead

Mrs Smith

Attendance Officer

Further Information

Newsletter_Online_Safety.pdf

Safeguarding Information

The health, safety and well-being if all our pupils at Collingwood Primary school is of the utmost importance. Our priority is to provide a safe and welcoming environment, where pupils are valued and respected.

We have a number if policies and procedures in place that contribute to our safeguarding commitment, including our Child Protection policy, which can be viewed in our policy section.

Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child’s welfare. We will ensure that our concerns about our pupils are discussed with their parents/carers in the first instance, unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child’s welfare.

We know that children thrive better and are able to reach their full potential when we work closely together. At Collingwood Primary School we are committed to this and look forward to our continuing close partnership with you in the future.

What to do if you have a concern about a child attending Collingwood:

DURING SCHOOL HOURS

Contact the school and speak to either Mrs Butters or Emily Pingree
Contact the Access and Assessment team for Hull on 01482 448879

OUT OF SCHOOL HOURS AND DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS:

If your concern is urgent and there is an immediate risk of harm, then contact the police via 999
If your concern is less urgent but you are worried about the welfare of the child then contact Children’s Social Care, Access and assessment team on 01482 448879 (Weekdays 8.30AM-5PM) Immediate Help Team on 01482 300304 (After 5PM and weekends)

If you have concerns about a child at Collingwood, which you believe the school need to be aware of, then email Suzanne Wilson, Strategic Safeguarding Lead for HCAT: suzanne.wilson@hcat.org.uk. Ms Wilson will make contact with a key member of staff from the school on your behalf.

Operation Encompass

Operation Encompass is a partnership between the Police and designated school staff, known as Key Adults. Working together to safeguard children, the Police will inform the Key Adults within schools, about any incident where the child or young person has been present or exposed to domestic abuse.

The information shared with the school's trained Key Adult allows the provision of immediate early intervention through overt or silent support, dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child.

The Key Adult at Collingwood Primary School is Mrs Butters.

Safeguarding in the curriculum

Pupil safeguarding is of primary importance at Collingwood Primary. The school is committed to supporting and educating children across a range of safeguarding matters, as well as supporting issues specifically related to the local context. We seek opportunities in the taught curriculum for children to learn about safeguarding. Our PHSE curriculum covers safeguarding themes through each of the strands within the Jigsaw scheme of work. We are sensitive in our teaching and recognise that some more sensitive subjects need to be taught at an age-appropriate level, or within a small group or 1:1 level where a more urgent need arises.

We teach Relationships and Sex education across the school and support parents in understanding the importance of children learning about healthy relationships. We teach online safety in each year group but also respond to any issues that arise through further lessons, assemblies or by using external agencies, i.e - the police to run workshops.

Our English curriculum uses carefully selected texts that promote equality, acceptance and tackle specific moral, social and ethical issues. The texts are mapped out across the year so that teachers are aware of the sensitive content that may arise, whilst also having the opportunity to respond to events that are relevant to their contexts and cohorts.

Our assemblies across the year are carefully mapped out to ensure that we are proactively teaching the children about key safeguarding topics but we also use assemblies to respond to any issues that may arise either in school or in the local community. We seek further enrichment opportunities that support our safeguarding curriculum.

We have an experienced and highly trained pastoral support team who support individual children and groups of children where safeguarding needs or concerns are individual or specific to that child/group. We use a range of social and emotional support programmes, as well as external services such as NSPCC or the police and various other wellbeing interventions. These are carefully monitored, and external support is accessed where appropriate. The ethos is supporting well-being is built around the principles of Restorative Practise.

We plan to constantly challenge children to think deeply about safeguarding matters and their own personal physical and mental wellbeing. We have developed an open and safe learning environment in which pupils express their views and seek help. The school displays posters around the corridor highlighting who the children can talk to if they are worried and provide opportunities for pupils to express their views via pupil surveys, school council and coaching groups. All staff have an open-door policy where children are encouraged to talk. Staff communicate with children using a calm and measured tone at all times and use respectful and positive language. Staff are encouraged at all times to take a non-judgemental, curious and empathetic attitude towards pupils’ behaviour.

Please find below an overview highlighting elements of Safeguarding in the curriculum, across the school.