St John's

St John's CofE Infant School Safeguarding Statement

St John's CofE Infant School recognises the important responsibility for Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children. The school’s policy applies to the whole of the school’s workforce, along with volunteers, governors, school club providers and any contractors working on the school site. This includes staff recruitment and selection – ensuring that all staff, volunteers etc. have been appropriately checked for their suitability, using the Safer Recruitment procedures.

In addition: 

• Raising awareness of safeguarding issues and equipping children with the skills to keep them safe;
• Developing and implementing procedures and training for identifying and reporting cases, or suspected cases, of abuse;
• Supporting pupils who have been abused, in accordance with an agreed, child-centered plan;
• Establishing a safe and nurturing environment, free from discrimination or bullying, where children can learn and develop happily.

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 his/her parents/carers first, unless we have a reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child’s welfare.

Our Designated Safeguarding Team is: 

Lead – Mrs Marion Stevens, Headteacher

Inclusion Lead – Mrs Sophie Ireland

Safeguarding Governor - Mrs Alice Jones

Safeguarding Concerns

If you are concerned about the safeguarding of a child at any time, please contact Surrey children’s single point of access (C-SPA) 

  9am to 5pm on Monday to Friday.

C-SPA on 0300 470 9100

Email: cspa@surreycc.gov.uk

During evenings, weekends, bank holidays and school holidays the Emergency Duty Team is available:

Phone: 01483 517898
Email: edt.ssd@surreycc.gov.uk

You can contact the school Safeguarding leads Mrs Stevens or Mrs Ireland, 9am - 5pm during term times. 

DSL@stjohns-farnham.surrey.sch.uk or telephone 01428 713216

 

Policy Documents

• Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023
• St John's Safeguarding & Child Protection Policy 2023
• St John's Online Safety Policy

The NSPCC have a range of PANTS guides for parents & carers. For more information and to download, please click below

• A parent's guide to NSPCC PANTS
• A children's guide to NSPCC PANTS rules
• For children with SEND NSPCC guides on underwear rules
• Sing along with Pantosauras video

Wellbeing

Surrey have a website for parents and children offering advice on Children and Young people's wellbeing and mental health.

If you know a family, child or young person in need of help, you might like to point them in the direction of the Surrey website. You can get advice and information or ask for further support.

https://www.mindworks-surrey.org/

 

The children's mental health charity, Place2Be, has a website aimed at helping parents with typical situations they can find themselves in with their children. Advice can be found on over forty topics including:

• Understanding sibling rivalry?
• My child is lying, what does it mean, what should I do?
• My child has trouble going to sleep
• My child says ‘I hate you!’
• Cultural identity: who am I?

The Parenting Smart website can found here: https://parentingsmart.place2be.org.uk/

 

Should you be looking for some advice on speaking with your child about grief and loss then you may find this a useful article Tiny Happy People