Child Protection and Saftey

Laycock Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all of its pupils.

Safeguarding is defined as:

Protecting children from maltreatment
Preventing impairment of children’s health or development
Ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
Taking action to enable all children to have the best life chances.

Our school fulfills the local and national responsibilities in line with the following:

Working Together to Safeguard Children

London Child Protection Procedures

Keeping Children Safe in education 2020

Mental health and behaviour in schools

Information sharing and GDPR

NPPC- When to call the police

Children Missing in Education

We actively support the Government’s Prevent Agenda.

In addition to these statutory documents, we have a Laycock Safeguarding policy:

Safeguarding Policy 2020 (INSERT)

All other policies liked to this one, such as School Behaviour and Code of Conduct can be found here.

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 reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child’s welfare.

Our Designated Safeguarding Leads are:

The DSL is a senior member of staff who takes the lead responsibility for child protection and has the status and authority within the school to carry out the duties of the post including committing resources and where appropriate supporting and directing other staff. The DSL is supported by deputies.