Safeguarding Statement
Our Safeguarding Statement
- Everyone at Byfleet is committed to safeguarding promoting children welfare.
- We expect all staff, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment as our culture here is: Safeguarding is EVERYONE’S Responsibility.
- All of our policies outline our commitment to safeguarding, Including our Child Protection Policy, which is available on our website www.byfleet.surrey.sch.uk. These are reviewed regularly.
- Our children are reminded they can talk to any adult in school as we are all here to keep them safe.
- All staff regularly attend updates and have safeguarding training across the year.
- Key documents are: Keeping Children Safe in Education, Working Together to Safeguard Children, Online Safety and Prevent Strategy.
- We carry out safer recruitment - DBS checks, references and pre-internet searches of applicants and all staff have a safeguarding induction.
- We ensure our daily routines are safe: handover (start of day), transitions and end of day collection, reviewing and adapting these, based on each cohort’s needs.
- We ensure our classrooms, buildings, playgrounds and gates are in good working order, to keep us safe.
- We carry out regular fire drills, evacuation procedures & locks downs to know how to respond in an emergency.
- All adults at Byfleet Primary wear an id lanyard badge, and we encourage everyone to challenge anyone who is not wearing one.
- All adults at Byfleet Primary must sign in using our Inventry system. This way we know they have been checked and are safe.
- We share information and work with other agencies in the interest of safeguarding our children. We discuss this with parents/carers first, unless advised otherwise.
- All concerns are logged onto our comprehensive electronic system and are followed up diligently and in a timely manner.
- DSL’s respect the privacy and rights of families to remain confidential and will only share information on a needs-to-know basis, meaning we can provide the right support, in the interest of the child, as we take a child-centered approach.
Our DSL and deputy DSL have undertaken the following training:
- DSL Refresher Course (valid for 2 years)
- Surrey Module 1 & 2 Safeguarding Training (Olive)
- Brook Sexualised Behaviour Traffic Light training
- Safer Recruitment
- NSPCC Graded Care Profile 2
- NSPCC Keeping Children Safe Online
- Safer Recruitment Training
All our staff have a DBS check prior to working at our school, including volunteers. All visitors to school will need to sign in using our Inventry system acknowledging to abide by our practices below:
- Entry and exit of our school must be through the main reception door only.
- A visitors badge must be worn at all times.
- Entry to classrooms must be by invitation only.
- Recording devices (cameras, video recorders, IPads etc) must only be used where permission has been granted by the Headteacher.
If concerns relate to the actions or behaviour of a member of staff then this should be reported to the Headteacher. If the concern is related to the Headteacher then this should be done via the Chair of Governors who will consider what action to take.
Emergency Contact for Designated Safeguarding Lead (Richard Bowman) out of hours: dsl@byfleet.surrey.sch.uk or head@byfleet.surrey.sch.uk.
If there are Child Protection concerns then Surrey Children’s Single Point of Access (C-SPA) should be contacted: Phone: 0300 470 9100 (Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm)
Out of hours phone: 01483 517898 to speak to our emergency duty team
Email: cspa@surreycc.gov.uk
Please complete a Surrey Children’s Services Request for Support Form (this replaces the Multi-agency referral form (MARF).
Byfleet Primary School Safeguarding Flow Chart
