At Stamford Bridge Primary School all staff are responsible for safeguarding. We educate our children and encourage them to speak to any member of staff if they have concerns.
We promote a culture of safeguarding where it is everyone’s responsibility to protect our children from harm.
If you need to report a concern
If you have a concern about any of the children in our care, we urge you to contact the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) – Nicola Massey, nicolamassey@stamfordbridgeschool.co.uk no matter how minor you think your concern may be.
- Please be assured that any concerns or information given will be treated in the strictest confidence.
- We will investigate as necessary with any relevant parties, be this external agencies, staff, parents or other.
| Designated Safeguarding Lead/Child Protection
Coordinator |
Nicola Massey | (01759) 371430/ 07498850401
nicolamassey@stamfordbridgeschool.co.uk
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| Deputy DSLs
/Deputy Child Protection Coordinators |
Rachel Malster-Hinett
Tara Lloyd- Davies |
(01759) 371430
rachelmalster@stamfordbridgeschool.co.uk (01759) 371430 taradavies@stamfordbridgeschool.co.uk |
| Headteacher | Nicola Massey | (01759) 371430
nicolamassey@stamfordbridgeschool.co.uk |
| Child Protection Governor | Paul Mieklejohn | (01759) 371430
paulmeiklejohn@stamfordbridgeschool.co.uk |
| Chair of Governors | Roddy Vann | (01759) 318369
roddyvann@stamfordbridgeschool.co.uk |
| LAC Designated Teacher | Nicola Massey | (01759) 371430 |
| Early Help & Safeguarding Hub
(EHaSH) |
CP initial referral Support & Advice: | (01482) 395500 |
| EHaSH Out of Hours (formerly EDT) | Out of hours & weekend CP Referrals & advice | (01377) 241273 |
| Local ER Children Safeguarding Team | Wolds and Dale SCT | (01482) 392370 |
| ER School Safeguarding Adviser & Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) | Referral of allegations against staff & volunteers General strategic & Operational School Safeguarding | (01482) 392139
LADO@eastriding.gov.uk Room AF 56, County Hall, Beverley. |
| ERSCB LADO | Lorraine Wilson Referral of allegations against staff & volunteers | (01482) 396999
lorraine.wilson@eastriding.gcsx.gov.uk Room AF 56 County Hall, Beverley |
| School critical incident & Educational Visits Emergencies (not CP) | 24 hour guidance and support | (01482) 392999 |
Safeguarding and Partnership Hub (SaPH) – Child protection and referral support
- 01482 395500
- Monday to Thursday 8:30m- 5:00pm / Friday 8:30am – 4:30pm
Early Help and Prevention Hub – Early help family support services
- 01482 391700
- Monday to Friday 9:00am – 4:00pm
Humberside Police (non-emergency) – Report non-urgent incidents or crimes or get crime advice
- 101
National Counter Terrorism Hotline – Counter terrorism policing is a collaboration of UK police forces working with intelligence partners to prevent, deter and investigate terrorism activity.
- 0800 789 321
Information for visitors, supply staff and volunteers
Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This means that we have a Child Protection Policy and procedures in place.
All people in the school community have a responsibility to act on any concerns that they have about a child’s wellbeing.
If you are concerned about a child’s welfare, please record your concerns, and any observations or conversation heard, and report this as soon as possible the same day to the designated safe guarding lead.
‘Do NOT conduct your own investigation. Keep all concerns or information confidential.
You might be concerned if:
- You see an injury
- Another person may express concerns
- Something else raises concerns or worries.
- A pupil tells you something
If a pupil tells you something that needs to be passed on:
- Promise confidentiality not secrecy
- Reassure the child that they have done the right thing
- Listen but do not ask leading questions
- Record and pass on your concerns
Your help in supporting our safeguarding work is appreciated by the school and most importantly by the children and young people.
What is Abuse and Neglect?
Abuse and neglect are forms of maltreatment of a child. Somebody may abuse or neglect a child by inflicting harm, or by failing to act to prevent harm. Children may be abused in a family or in an institutional or community setting, by those known to them or, more rarely, by a stranger for example, via the Internet. They may be abused by an adult or adults, or another child or children.
Physical abuse may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding, drowning, suffocating, or otherwise causing physical harm to a child. Physical harm may also be caused when a parent or carer fabricates the symptoms of, or deliberately induces, illness in a child.
Emotional abuse is the persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and persistent adverse effects on the child’s emotional development. It may involve conveying to children that they are worthless or unloved, inadequate, or valued only insofar as they meet the needs of another person. It may include not giving the child opportunities to express their views, deliberately silencing them or ‘making fun’ of what they say or how they communicate. It may feature age or developmentally inappropriate expectations being imposed on children. These may include interactions that are beyond the child’s developmental capability, as well as overprotection and limitation of exploration and learning, or preventing the child participating in normal social interaction. It may involve seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another. It may involve serious bullying (including cyberbullying), causing children frequently to feel frightened or in danger, or the exploitation or corruption of children.
Some level of emotional abuse is involved in all types of maltreatment of a child, though it may occur alone.
Sexual abuse involves forcing or enticing a child or young person to take part in sexual activities, not necessarily involving a high level of violence, whether or not the child is aware of what is happening. The activities may involve physical contact, including assault by penetration (for example, rape or oral sex) or non-penetrative acts such as masturbation, kissing, rubbing and touching outside of clothing.
They may also include non-contact activities, such as involving children in looking at, or in the production of, sexual images, watching sexual activities, encouraging children to behave in sexually inappropriate ways, or grooming a child in preparation for abuse (including via the internet). Sexual abuse is not solely perpetrated by adult males. Women can also commit acts of sexual abuse, as can other children.
Neglect is the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child’s health or development. Neglect may occur during pregnancy as a result of maternal substance abuse. Once a child is born, neglect may involve a parent or carer failing to:
- provide adequate food, clothing and shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment);
- protect a child from physical and emotional harm or danger;
- ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate care-givers); or
- ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment.
- It may also include neglect of, or unresponsiveness to, a child’s basic emotional needs.
At Stamford Bridge Primary School, our curriculum supports the children’s understanding on how to keep themselves safe in and outside of school. This includes: healthy relationships, keeping fit, wellbeing and looking after our bodies. Our Computing curriculum teaches our children how to stay safe on online, using the internet appropriately, social media and how to report concerns such as cyberbullying.
School policies are in place to ensure that there is a consistent approach to practices throughout our school and that they are understood and adhered to by staff, governors and volunteers. Adults have a tremendous impact on young children and, with this in mind, Stamford Bridge Primary School;
- are good role models for children
- enjoy their work and working with children
- welcome and support visitors in school
- recognise and value strengths in each other and use these to support everyone
- work within the agreed policies of the school
- promote a happy, caring and safe school
- encourage children to think for themselves, ask questions and find answers
- create an environment of trust whereby children are trusted to do their best and mistakes are seen as part of the learning process
- challenge and support children’s learning.
We pride ourselves on being a ‘caring and nurturing’ school and doing the very best we can for every child in our care. There are numerous policies in place to safeguard our children and they include: Child Protection; Attendance; Behaviour; Health & Safety; Curriculum; Safer Recruitment; Complaints.
We also provide:
- An Emotional Literacy Support Assistant intervention (ELSA) – a project designed to help schools support the emotional needs of their pupils.
- NSPCC workshops on how to ‘Speak Out. Stay Safe.’
- Travel safe workshops