The Springfield DSL Team
Mrs Cormack
Mrs Parker
Mrs Tree
Mrs Ambrose
Springfield Junior School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and members of the wider school community to share this commitment.
We keep children at Springfield Junior School safe by:
– Having an up-to-date safeguarding and child protection policy which is reviewed on a regular basis and used as a working document.
– Use Safer Recruitment guidelines to ensure that all staff are vetted stringently.
– Promoting a culture of openness in which concerns can be shared by everybody.
– Ensuring all our staff have up to date child protection and safeguarding training.
– Sharing information with appropriate agencies if we have concerns and complete referrals when appropriate.
– Identifying members of staff who have responsibility for safeguarding.
– Ensuring that all visitors are aware of the importance of safeguarding within our school and know how to pass on any concerns they may have.
For full details of our safeguarding arrangements please refer to the Safeguarding policy.
The Safeguarding leads are:
- Gill Cormack DSL
- Kerry Parker DDSL
- Additional DDSLs – Mrs Tree and Mrs Ambrose
To contact us please email : safeguarding@springfield.derbyshire.sch.uk
or telephone: 01283 217 855 please press option 3 (this is overseen 24 hours, 365 days a year)
The safeguarding@springfield.derbyshire.sch.uk is monitored throughout the day. If you have any concerns that a child is at risk of serious harm then contact Call Derbyshire on 01629 533190 or visit www.derbyshire.gov.uk/startingpoint
NSPCC is a free 24 hour, 365 days a year helpline on 0808 800500 or visit www.nspcc.org.uk Childline Help Number – 0800 1111
POLICIES
Prevent duty for all schools
Get help
for radicalisation concerns – GOV.UK
At Springfield Junior School we take a proactive approach to identifying and responding to radicalisation.
From 1 July 2015 all schools, registered early years childcare providers and registered later years childcare providers are subject to a duty under section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, in the exercise of their functions, to have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”. This duty is known as the Prevent duty.
In order for schools and childcare providers to fulfil the Prevent duty, it is essential that staff are able to identify children who may be vulnerable to radicalisation and know what to do when they are identified. Protecting children from the risk of radicalisation should be seen as part of schools’ and childcare providers’ wider safeguarding duties and is similar in nature to protecting children from other harms (e.g. drugs, gangs, neglect, sexual exploitation), whether these come from within their family or are the product of outside influences.
Schools and childcare providers can also build pupils’ resilience to radicalisation by promoting fundamental British values and enabling them to challenge extremist5 views. It is important to emphasise that the Prevent duty is to support schools in providing a safe space in which children, young people and staff can understand the risks associated with terrorism and develop the knowledge and skills to be able to challenge extremist arguments.
At Springfield Junior School, it is the duty of all staff to inform the Headteacher if they are made aware of or themselves make a judgement that a child in their care may be subject to or be vulnerable of radicalisation. Information may be shared with appropriate outside agencies, including social services, the Police and Counter Terrorist agencies.
If you suspect that a child is vulnerable, you should contact the Police or inform the school who may be able to act on your behalf.
Make a report to one of CEOP’s Child Protection Advisors
The National Crime Agency’s CEOP Education team aim to help protect children and young people from online child sexual abuse.
They do this through their education programme, providing training, resources and information to professionals working with children, young people and their families. Click on the link below for more information and resources to support parents and carers at home.
Domestic Ab
use OPERATION ENCOMPASS
Operation Encompass is a police and education early information safeguarding partnership enabling schools to offer immediate support to children experiencing domestic abuse.
Operation Encompass ensures that there is a simple telephone call or notification to a school’s trained Designated Safeguarding Lead /Officer (known as key Adult) prior to the start of the next school day after an incident of police attended domestic abuse where there are children related to either of the adult parties involved.
Information is shared with a school’s Key Adult (Designated Safeguarding Lead or Officer) prior to the start of the next school day after officers have attended a domestic abuse incident. This sharing of information enables appropriate support to be given, dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child.
Children are negatively impacted by experiencing domestic abuse and without early intervention and support this negative impact can last through a child’s life course. Domestic abuse can impact upon social, psychological, physical, emotional and behavioural outcomes with an often negative impact upon a child’s academic success. Experiencing domestic abuse has been identified as an Adverse Childhood Experience.
Operation Encompass aims, by directly connecting police and schools, to secure better outcomes for children , to enable schools to better understand the impact living with domestic abuse has upon children, to help schools to better understand a child’s lived experience and to therefore be able to support and nurture each child , making a child’s day better and giving them a better tomorrow.
