Keeping our Children Safe

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 Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm.

Safeguarding means:

• protecting children from abuse and maltreatment
• preventing harm to children’s health or development
• ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care
• taking action to enable all children and young people to have the best outcomes.

Child protection is part of the safeguarding process. It focuses on protecting individual children identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. This includes child protection procedures which detail how to respond to concerns about a child.

If you have a safeguarding concern please contact one of our School Designated Safeguarding Leads:

• Mr Purslow (Headteacher)
• Mrs Cubbin (Deputy Head)
• Miss Wilson (SENCO)

Or contact Shropshire Councils safeguarding team by calling their helpline on:

 03456 789 021 

All our staff and volunteers have upto date training and are statutorily obliged to read the guidance in the "Keeping Children Safe in Education" document provided by the DFE.