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Safeguarding

JSenior

Mrs J Senior
Designated Safeguarding Lead

SNewton

Mrs S Newton
Deputy Safeguarding Lead

 

RIdell

Mrs R Idell
Deputy Safeguarding Lead

NStrong.jpg

Mr N Strong
Safeguarding Governor

 

Keeping Children Safe in Education is statutory guidance for schools and colleges who must have regard to it when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

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Kiveton Park Infant School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We strive to ensure that consistent effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, children and staff at school.

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The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) is Mrs J Senior (Head of School) and Mrs R Idell (SENCo and inclusion lead) is the Deputy DSL. Mrs S Newton (Family Support Assistant) also has specialist safeguarding training. As set out in Keeping Children Safe in Education, the role of the DSL is to take lead responsibility for safeguarding and child protection (including online safety). This should be explicit in the role holder’s job description. This person should have the appropriate status and authority within the school to carry out the duties of the post. They should be given the time, funding, training, resources and support to provide advice and support to other staff on child welfare and child protection matters, to take part in strategy discussions and inter-agency meetings, and/or to support other staff to do so, and to contribute to the assessment of children.

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Operation Encompass – Operation Encompass is a national initiative which enhances communication between the police and schools where a child is at risk from domestic abuse. Operation Encompass is a process used to inform schools when the police have attended an incident of domestic abuse, where domestic abuse incidents have occurred in the homes of their pupils since the previous school day. The purpose of the information sharing is to ensure schools have more information to support the safeguarding of children. By knowing that the child has had this experience the school is in a better position to understand and be supportive of the child’s needs and possible behaviours. 

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Kiveton Park Infant School has policies and procedures in place to deal effectively with child protection and safeguarding issues together with recording and monitoring processes.

Use the following links to read our policies related to safeguarding:

KPI Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy

Click here to download Working Together to Safeguard Children

Click here to download Keeping Children Safe in Education

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Other policies not specifically related to safeguarding are available on the policies page. To request a paper copy of one of these policies, or a copy of any other policy please contact the school office (school@kpi.jmat.org.uk).

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Please click on the links below to be taken to the website and find out more information.

Rotherham Safeguarding Children Partnership

Barnardo's Real Love Rocks

CSE Education

Keeping Children Safe Online

Childline 

Operation Encompass

Healthy Schools Rotherham

Power

NSPCC

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