Safeguarding
Introduction
Horley Infant School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment. For a detailed description of our practices and procedures in school, please consult our Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy found within our statutory policies page. Our policy has the following information:
– General description of the safeguarding practices at our school
– Responding to and recording concerns
– Minimum age of individuals collecting pupils from school
– Safer recruitment
– How to respond to allegations of abuse against staff
For a brief summary, please read the information here on our dedicated web-page.
Safeguarding Policy
Surrey Safeguarding
Raising Concerns
EVERYONE is responsible for safeguarding. We have Designated Safeguarding Leads in school who manage concerns raised by school staff and also through disclosures/behaviours exhibited by children in our school. You can email our DSL team via dsl@horley.surrey.sch.uk . We also have a Safeguarding Link Governor; her name is Kirstie Prentice and she can be contacted through our Clerk to Governors via clerk@horley.surrey.sch.uk .
Whilst we are able to listen to concerns you may have regarding pupils in our school or others within your wider family circle, we always encourage individuals outside of our school staff to contact Surrey Children’s Social care directly themselves. This can be done anonymously if preferred and will usually result in Horley Infant School being contacted by Surrey Children’s Services.
Therefore, if you or any members of the public have any safeguarding concerns about a child or adult, we encourage you to make direct contact with the Surrey C-SPA (Children’s Single Point of Access) or through Surrey’s Adult Social Care.
What is Safeguarding and Child Protection?
Safeguarding
Relates to the broader aspects of education, for example, mental well-being of pupils and staff, health and safety, medical conditions, trips, first aid, online safety, risk assessments, children’s and staff security.
Child Protection
Is part of safeguarding it protects children from a range of issues, including neglect and physical abuse, sexual and emotional abuse.
Keeping Children Safe in Education
All staff have read, signed, understand and follow Keeping Children Safe in Education Part 1 & Annexe B.
All Governors have been given a copy of and have read Keeping Children Safe in Education. We keep a record of this on GovernorHub. To read Keeping Children Safe in Education please click on the policy image.
We have a Link Governor for Safeguarding in our school. Click here to find out more about our Link Governors.
Operation Encompass Scheme
Horley Infant School is an Operation Encompass School. Operation Encompass is a police and early information safeguarding partnership enabling schools to offer immediate support to children experiencing domestic abuse.
Operation Encompass ensures that there is a notification to a school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead 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.
Experiencing domestic abuse has been identified as an Adverse Childhood Experience. Therefore, this sharing of information enables appropriate pastoral 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 lifetime. Domestic abuse can impact upon social, psychological, physical, emotional and behavioural outcomes with an often negative impact upon a child’s academic success.
Operation Encompass aims to help schools to:
- secure better outcomes for children
- better understand the impact living with domestic abuse has upon children
- better understand a child’s lived experience
- support and nurture each child, making a child’s day better and giving them a better tomorrow
For further details please visit the Operation Encompass website by clicking/tapping on the logo.
Online Safety
We recognise that keeping children safe in an online world is just as important as keeping the same in the physical world. We use resources from ThinkUKnow, NSPCC and CEOP to help children staf safe online and regularly share useful documents with parents, too. As the online world is evolving at a greater pace than the physical world, we will include some information on our website below but it is always best to access the websites directly by clicking/tapping on the logos below.
There is also a useful guide available from GoCompare which gives more information to parents about how your broadband provider can help with setting up parental controls and internet safety. Please click on the GoCompare logo below to be taken to their website.
Broadband Controls
Think U Know Advice
NSPCC Website
C E O P Website
CONTACT US
FOLLOW US
If you would like paper copies for any of the information on our website, please contact the school office
