Keeping Our Children Safe
'Believe in the light, whilst you have the light, so that you may become children of light.' John 12:36
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At Kingsley St John's we taking our safeguarding and child protection duty extremely seriously. Children need to feel safe and be safe in order to flourish and live life in all its fullness.
'Church of England schools have at their heart a belief that all children are loved by God, are individually unique and that the school has a mission to help each pupil to fulfil their potential in all aspects of their personhood: physically, academically, socially, morally and spiritually. Our aim is that all may flourish and have an abundant life. Schools have a duty to try to remove any factor that might represent a hindrance to a child’s fulfilment.We want all pupils to willingly engage in learning in a safe and welcoming environment.' Valuing All God's CHildren
Our designated officer for safeguarding is the headteacher Rachel Jones.
The deputy designated officer is Samantha Gibson.
If neither of these are available please ask for Mr Nathan Davies.
Should you have any concerns regarding the welfare of any child in our school, you should in the first instance make these concerns known to the designated officer.
There is a governor identified with the responsibility for safeguarding, this is Ian Critchley. Ian can be contacted on ian.critchley@kingsleystjohns.co.uk
Cheshire West and Chester host an integrated support team for any safeguarding concerns. Information regarding this is available below, including the emergency duty team - this number should be called if you suspect a child is at risk of harm.
If you suspect a child is in immediate danger you should call 999.
Further information for parents and carers can be found at local safeguarding children board
Introduction to the local safeguarding children board (LSCB)
Our Safeguarding support officer is Susie Sheasby
Where to find help
Integrated access and referral team
- Email (secure): i-ART@cheshirewestandchester.gcsx.gov.uk
- Email (ordinary): i-ART@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
- By post: Wyvern House, The Drumber, Winsford, CW7 1AU
- Opening hours: 8.30am to 5pm from Monday to Thursday,
8.30am to 4.30pm Friday - Telephone: 0300 123 7047
Emergency duty team (for out of hours emergencies)
- Email (secure): edt@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk.cjsm.net
- Email (ordinary): edt@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
- Telephone: 01244 977277
- Opening hours: 4.30 pm to 8.30 am from Monday to Thursday, from 4pm on Friday and 24 hours at weekends and bank holidays
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All staff access Safeguarding Basic Awareness training every 2 years.
Our designated officers access the highest level of training with the local authority within every 3 years as well as the delivery of Basic Awareness Training.
We have annual systems in place to keep our governors fully informed of our safeguarding protocols.
Types of Training
- PREVENT
- Basic Awareness
- Domestic Violence
- Physical Abuse
- FGM and Honoour-based Violence
- Sexual Abuse
- Neglect and Emotional Abuse
- Safer Recruitment
- Designated Safeguarding Lead Training
- Refresher Safeguarding Training
- Learning from local and national safeguarding reviews
- Fabricated and Induced Illness
Our school is part of a project, which is run between Cheshire West and Chester schools and Cheshire Police. The project called Operation Encompass, has been designed to provide early reporting of any domestic violence incidents that occur outside school, which might have an impact on a child in school. This is done through a phone call to school following an incident.
The project ensures that at least one member of the school staff, known as the Key Adult, is trained to liaise with the police and to use the information that has been shared, in confidence.
In this way, we aim to support each child who has been involved in, or witnessed, a domestic abuse incident. The Key Adult at Kingsley St John's CE Aided Primary School is Mrs R Jones. If she receives an Encompass call she will make sure that a person the child trusts is available to help – if the child needs this. Most of the time this support is silent; keeping a careful eye on him or her and make sure the child has a calm school day. The confidential information is ordinarily not shared with all staff, just an agreement on how to help, if needed.
All schools have a duty to share any information with other organisations if they feel a child is at risk of being hurt. The Key Adult may contact other organisations. This is described in our Safeguarding and Child Protection policy.
The sharing of information from the Police allows the school to be ready to help your child straight away, and it means that parents are aware that the Key Adult knows that something has happened. Parents can come and talk to our Key Adult. The Key Adult can point you towards other people that can help. Our aim is to support children and their families.
Staying Safe online
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