Badbury Park Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  We take seriously our responsibility to protect and safeguard the welfare of the children and young people in our care.  Please click here to see how we keep children safe at Badbury Park Primary School.

 

Working Together to Safeguard Children defines safeguarding as:

• providing help and support to meet the needs of children as soon as problems emerge.

• protecting children from maltreatment, whether that is within or outside the home, including online;

• preventing impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development;

• ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care;

• promoting the upbringing of children with their birth parents, or otherwise their family network through kinship care arrangement, whenever possible and where this is in the best interests of the children;

• taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes in line with the outcomes set out in the Children’s Social Care National Framework.

 

​Child protection forms part of the school’s safeguarding responsibilities. Child protection is at the core of all we do and we recruit all our staff following safe recruiting procedures. All staff, governors and volunteers, including parent helpers, are DBS checked before they can work or help in our school and are trained in safeguarding, child protection and first aid procedures. We maintain an attitude of ' it could happen here' and recognise that staff, because of their contact with and knowledge of children in their care, are well placed to identify abuse or neglect and offer support to children in need.  Risk assessments will be in place for generic activities and school visits. Badbury Park Primary School  reviews its emergency procedures and policies on a regular basis and we will have termly fire drills. Across the curriculum there will be many opportunities for the children to learn about safety e.g. road safety, fire safety, stranger danger and online safety.

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Our school provides a safe, caring, positive and stimulating environment, free from discrimination or bullying, promoting the physical, moral and social development of the individual child, where children can learn and develop happily. We are alert to the signs of abuse and neglect and will follow procedures to ensure that children receive effective support, protection and justice. We will contact parents/carers should safeguarding concerns arise about their child, unless to do so would increase the risk of harm to the child. In this instance, we take further advice and guidance from our children’s social care team

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Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child’s welfare. We will ensure that our concerns about our pupils are discussed with parents/carers first. However, there may be a rare occasion when our concerns about your child may mean we have to consult other agencies even before we contact you.  The procedures which we follow are laid down by the Local Children Safeguarding Board and we have a number of policies and procedures in place, that contribute to our safeguarding commitment, including our Safeguarding and Code of Conduct information for visitors, volunteers & supply staff and our Child Protection Policy  .

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We maintain contemporaneous records of all safeguarding and child protection concerns, actions and communications and any action taken is in line with the following legislation/guidance:

• Keeping Children Safe in Education (DfE updated 2024)

• South West Child Protection Procedures (SWCPP)

• Working Together to Safeguard Children (December 2023)

• Swindon Safeguarding Partnership (https://safeguardingpartnership.swindon.gov.uk/ )

• The Prevent duty – Departmental advice for schools and childcare providers (July 2015)

• ‘Information-sharing : advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers.’

 

Contact Swindon (formerly Swindon Borough Council Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)

Telephone: 01793 464646

Email: contactswindon@swindon.gov.uk