Safeguarding Information

Our Commitment to Safeguarding

Westover Green Primary School and Autism Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This is ensured through five key elements:

Establishing a safe environment in which children can learn and develop
Ensuring we practice safer recruitment in checking the suitability of staff and volunteers to work with children
Raising awareness of safeguarding issues and equipping children with the skills needed to keep them safe
Developing and then implementing procedures for identifying and reporting cases, or suspected cases, of abuse and allegations against teachers and other members of staff
Supporting pupils who have been abused in accordance with a Child Protection Plan

For some children a one-off serious incident or concern may occur and you will have no doubt that this must be immediately recorded and reported. Most often, however, it is the accumulation of a number of small incidents, events or observations that provide the evidence of harm being caused to a child.

We at Westover Green Primary School take our Safeguarding responsibilities very seriously. This means that we continue to ensure that everyone working in the school has successfully completed the necessary clearances and training to enable them to work with our children. Our duties include safeguarding children from radicalisation and extremism - we have a responsibility to protect children from extremist and violent views, the same way we help to protect them from drugs or child sexual exploitation (CSE) or child criminal exploitation (CCE) for example.

Please click here to see our Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy

Key Safeguarding Roles

It is vital that any concern you have for a child's welfare, however small is recorded and passed to one of our safeguarding leads:

The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) is the Acting Headteacher Miss Jo Hale.
The Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads (DDSLs) are Mrs Emma Keitch (Home School Liaison Worker) and Mrs Rachel Elliott (SENCo).
The Designated Teacher that further supports looked after children or previously looked after children is Mrs Rachel Elliott.

Our Chair of Governors Nathan Ziabek is our named safeguarding Governor.

All staff members at Westover Green Community School have an important role to play in helping to identify welfare concerns and possible indicators of abuse or neglect at an early stage.

If the Designated Leads above are not available or if it is out of school hours you must ring:

Children's Services on 0300 123 2224

Our Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy can be found on our policies and important documents page.

The following websites provided useful information relating to safeguarding children: