Eastway Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, pupils and volunteers to share this commitment. It is their right to be safe in school and our duty to ensure this.
At Eastway, safeguarding is managed in a number of ways. This includes ensuring good behaviour, safety on the school site, anti-bullying, E-safety and child protection/safeguarding policies.
As part of safeguarding work, we work in partnership with colleagues from other agencies. This includes colleagues from the school nursing service, social care, police, community paediatricians and other agencies. Where possible, our intention is always to consult and work with parents/carers to achieve the best outcome for the child. Sometimes circumstances exist which do not allow for the consultation and the school has to take independent action in order to ensure a child is safeguarded.
All staff and Governors attend regular safeguarding training including the signs and indicators that a child may be being harmed or at risk of harm as well as the procedure to record and report any pupil disclosures. Staff are trained in de-escalation and diffusion techniques. Our school use CPOMS to record and track safeguarding, mental health and wellbeing issues, collating information and identifying patterns.
The safeguarding team at Eastway Primary School help to co-ordinate all our work. Please contact us if you need any support or advice.
Our safeguarding team is:
Mrs Faye Benson (Headteacher) Designated Safeguarding Lead - headteacher@eastway.wirral.sch.uk
Mr Liam Thomas (Deputy Headteacher) Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mrs Stephanie Dennett (Family Support and Well Being Co-ordinator) Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mrs Lyn Eaton Safeguarding Governor
PREVENT DUTY
As part of Eastway Primary School’s commitment to safeguarding and child protection we fully support the government’s Prevent Strategy, and take guidance from Teaching Approaches to help build resilience to extremism.
What is the Prevent Strategy?
The Prevent Strategy is a government strategy designed to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. It:
- responds to the ideological challenge we face from terrorism and aspects of terrorism, and the threat we face from those who promote these views.
- provides practical help to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and ensure they are given appropriate advice and support.
- works with a wide range of sectors (including education, criminal justice, faith, charities, online and health).
At Eastway Primary School we ensure that we teach the children about the Prevent Aims. This is done through quality circle time, Safety Week and PSHE activities. In each year group we teach our children to be safe and recognise the possible dangers they may face. Teachers make sure that this is done in a sensitive and age appropriate way.
We also protect children from the risk of radicalisation, for example by using filters on the internet to make sure they can’t access unsuitable material, and by vetting visitors who come into school to work with pupils.
The Prevent Duty Guidance (under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 ) was released by the Government in March 2015 which places a duty on schools, and other agencies, to “have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”. This legal duty came into force on 1st July 2015. The duty placed on schools covers 4 areas:
- Risk Assessment
- Working in Partnership
- Staff Training
- IT Policies
Eastway Primary School is committed to providing a secure environment for pupils, where children feel safe and are kept safe. All adults in our school recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility irrespective of the role they undertake or whether their role has direct contact or responsibility for children or not.
