All adults in our school help to keep children safe

At Cliftonville Primary and Pre-School we have a Safeguarding Team who work with our pupils, families and outside agencies. They also support all of the staff in ensuring we provide the best care for our pupils.

Our Safeguarding Team 

Mrs Wilson  Designated Safeguarding Lead  lwilson@cliftonvilleprimary.co.uk 

Ms Whichcord  Deputy DSL headteacher@cliftonvilleprimary.co.uk 

Mrs Fourie Deputy DSL afourie@cliftonvilleprimary.co.uk 

Mrs Saddington Deputy DSL msaddington@cliftonvilleprimary.co.uk 

Mr Clayson Online Safety DSL gclayson@cliftonvilleprimary.co.uk 

Mrs Emma Priest Deputy DSL epriest@cliftonvilleprimary.co.uk

Mr Alex Michael (Designated Teacher for Children in Care)

Mrs Julie Mayhew (Designated Teacher for Children in Care)

Please contact any one of the team if you have a safeguarding concern about your child.  

PLEASE DO NOT USE EMAILS TO REPORT CONCERNS THAT A CHILD IS AT IMMEDIATE RISK OF HARM.

THESE SHOULD BE REPORTED IN PERSON TO A SENIOR LEADER OR MEMBER OF THE SAFEGUARDING TEAM.

IF YOU ARE CONCERNED THAT A CHILD IS AT RISK OF HARM OVER THE WEEKEND, DURING THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS OR OUT OF SCHOOL HOURS, PLEASE CALL THE FRONT DOOR SAFEGUARDING HOTLINE ON 03000 41 11 11.

Our Safeguarding Governor is Bryan Mitchell who monitors that the school meets all statutory requirements in regard to Safeguarding.

Safeguarding training

The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) takes the lead responsibility for child protection, including support for other staff and information sharing with other agencies, developing policies and staff training.

Mrs Wilson is the lead DSL and Ms Whichcord, Mrs Fourie, Mrs Saddington, Mr Clayson and Mrs Priest are Deputy DSLs trained to the same standard.  

Staff undertake regular updated Safeguarding training along with dedicated termly themes.  In recent years this has included online safety, sexual harassment and the Channel Awareness training. Channel is a key process within the Prevent strategy for assessing individuals’ vulnerability to being drawn into terrorism. It focuses on early intervention and diverting people away from risk. 

The governing body is regularly updated on all aspects of safeguarding. The full governing body completed the same training as all staff including the update training each year and the reading of KELSI.  The full governing body reviewed the Head Teacher's written annual safeguarding report September 2023. Mrs Wilson provides a safeguarding report to the Governing body every term.

Safer Recruitment

Three members of the SLT as well as Mrs Priest, Deputy DSL, the School Business Manager, Ceri Stammers and our Chair of Governors, Marianne Hooper, have completed their Safer Recruitment training.

Online training

Mr Clayson is our online safety officer.  With the fast pace of changes in the digital world he attends regular national training and provides support for our staff and parents. 

Ms Rebecca Avery is the KCC Lead officer for online safety.  We have received some excellent feedback from Rebecca:

'Your school website online safety and safeguarding section looks great; I really like the up-to-date links and slideshow etc. Would you mind if I use it as an example of good practice for other schools who might be looking to improve their own online safety areas on their websites?'

First Aid training

12 members of staff currently have paediatric first aid certificates with further training in February for more members of staff. with Mrs Green and Mr Jeffkins having completed First Aid at Work training.