Thornton
Safeguarding/Child Protection
Safeguarding At Thornton Primary School
At Thornton Primary School, the health, safety and welfare of all our pupils is our top priority and is of paramount importance to all the adults who work here no matter what their role. Our children have the right to protection – regardless of age, gender, race, culture or disability. They have a right to be safe in our school and we do all that we can to ensure that they are!
The school is required to have rigorous policies and procedures in place to safeguard children. The school has several members of staff who have undertaken specialist training and take on the roles of Designated Senior Leader (i.e. to deal with safeguarding and child protection concerns).
Safeguarding Leaders:
In our school the following members of staff are fully trained to safeguard your child.
Designated Safeguarding Leader (DSL): Mrs F Ayub – Head of School
Mrs Ayub takes overall responsibility for the safeguarding of the pupils at Thornton.
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leaders: (DDSLS)
- Mrs E Davison – Executive Head of School (Covers all areas of safeguarding)
- Mrs H Rhodes –Pastoral Leader– (working with our families and community)
- Mr C Gilmour - Assistant Headteacher
- Mrs V Wood - Assistant Headteacher
- Ms C Bradley – SENCO (Covers SEND pupils and Inclusion)
- Mrs A Karamat – EYFS Leader (Covers EYFS Pupils/Supervisions in EYFS)
- Mrs L Connor – Lead Teacher (SEMH Resourced Provision)
It may be helpful to know that the law places a duty on the Executive Headteacher and Head of School and their staff to report any obvious signs or suspected cases of child abuse, which include non-accidental injury, neglect, emotional abuse and/or sexual abuse. The procedures are intended to protect children at risk and all schools and schools nationally are expected to take the attitude that where there are grounds for concern it is better to be safe than sorry. This does mean that the staff risks upsetting some parents/carers by reporting a case which, on investigation, proves unfounded. In such circumstances, it is hoped that parents and carers would accept that the staff acted in what were believed to be, in the best interests of the child. Keeping Children Safe in Education All staff have training on the revised Keeping children safe in education annually. This is the main document on which our policy and training is based.
If you have any concerns or are simply worried about a child, click here .If you have any concerns or are simply worried about a child, click here to view the NSPCC website.
If would like to contact the Bradford Safeguarding Partnership, then click here
If you would like to access support for your family, then you can click the link below to see what advice and support is available through Bradford’s Early Help offer. For more information about getting Early Help for your family, click here
If you have a concern that a child is being harmed as a result of abuse or neglect, YOU MUST NOT keep these concerns to yourself. You should call:
Integrated Front Door – 01274 433999 during office hours
At all other times, call the Emergency Duty Team on 01274 431010
If you have reason to believe that a child is at immediate risk of harm, contact the police on 999
Safeguarding Policy
Safeguarding across the Curriculum
Our safeguarding curriculum is designed to educate our pupils about how to stay safe and protect themselves from various risks and dangers.
Prevent
Prevent is part of is part of the UKs overall counter-terrorism strategy known as CONTEST. The aim of the Prevent Strategy is to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism by focusing on the following 3 objectives;
- Challenging ideology that supports terrorism and those who promote it;
- Protecting vulnerable individuals from being drawn into terrorism through appropriate advice and support
- Supporting sectors and institutions where there is a risk of radicalisation. Further information can be found below:
Online Safety
CEOP Education – 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 the CEOP Education Programme which provides training, resources and information for children and young people, their families and those who work with them. Explore their website for more details: www.thinkuknow.co.uk
If you want any further information about keeping your child safe online click here and also here for the UK Safer Internet Centre site.
If you need information on how to restrict access to web browsers and certain content on games consoles etc you can visit Protect Young Eyes who guides for a variety of devices. bit.ly/4eofI1V
The UK Safer Internet Centre has a great guide to social media apps including parent guides and safety tools bit.ly/3TMibLs
Further information about how we promote online safety can be found on our online safety page which can be found Online Safety