Safeguarding
At Hunslet Moor we are committed to providing a happy secure environment in which children thrive and develop intellectually, emotionally, socially and physically, thus making a positive contribution to their community.
The safeguarding of pupils is of high priority to us and alongside ensuring that the safeguarding of all pupils is everyone’s responsibility at Hunslet Moor, we also have a team of staff who are responsible for keeping children safe and further supporting those most vulnerable to harm and neglect. This team is known as the Safeguarding and Wellbeing Team and consists of:
| Kerri Daniels | Maternity Leave |
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| Kimberley Dellow | Designated Safeguarding Lead |
| Hannah Darley | Headteacher & designated safeguarding member of staff |
| Laura Frankland | Deputy HeadTeacher & Deputy designated safeguarding Lead |
| Fiona May | Deputy designated safeguarding Lead |
| Lucy Bolger | Deputy Headteacher & Online Safety Lead |
| Lucie Hemingway | Designated Teacher for child looked after & designated safeguarding member of staff |
| Dawn Graham | Designated safeguarding member of staff attendance |
| Sammy Brooke-White |
Designated Safeguarding member of staff & well-being worker
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Safeguarding at Hunslet Moor can be summarised as:
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protecting children and learners from maltreatment
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preventing impairment of children’s and learners’ health or development
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ensuring that children and learners are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
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undertaking that role so as to enable those children and learners to have optimum life chances and to enter adulthood successfully.
Safeguarding is an essential part of the fabric of our school and our safeguarding team pays particular attention to the meticulous and systematic implementation of policies and routines. Furthermore, safeguarding involves every member of the school community in some way and we have a sharp eye on the particular circumstances and needs of all pupils, especially the most vulnerable.
Our school is part of Operation Encompass which is a national scheme that operates jointly between schools and police forces. This means that we receive Domestic Violence notifications for families who have children in our school. Please see the lastest Operation Encompass Letter here.
the action we take to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm - is everyone's responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play.— Working together to safeguard children (Department for Education 2015)
Leadership and management make safeguarding a priority across all aspects of school and have implemented the following practices:
- Stringent vetting procedures in place for staff and other adults: See our Safer Recruitment Policy and Practice and Whistle Blowing Policy for further details. We also hold a Single Central Register listing of every adult who comes into contact with children in our school and the safety checks that have taken place to ensure everyone is safe to work with children. This is checked every half term by the Co-Headteachers and responsible Governor. We provide every visitor to our school with a Familiarisation Booklet to ensure they understand our approaches to safeguarding in school and their responsibilities as a visitor.
- Familiarisation-Booklet 2024-2025
- Rigorous safeguarding policies and procedures in place for Attendance, Behaviour and Anti-bullying, Child Protection, Safeguarding Health and Safety, Online safety and Acceptable Use.
- Child protection arrangements are accessible to everyone, so that pupils and families, as well as adults in the school, know who they can talk to if they are worried. See our child protection leaflet for parents and visitors for further information.
- Rigorous monitoring of absence, with timely and appropriate follow-up, to ensure that pupils attend regularly. We view good attendance as imperative to achievement for all and as a result work closely with our parents to ensure children are in school regularly. See our Attendance Leaflet for parents and visitors to explain our systems which ensure good attendance.
- Mutual respect, enabling everyone to feel secure and well-protected; See our Relationship Behaviour & Discipline Policy and whole school promises.
- A curriculum that is flexible, relevant and engages pupils’ interest; that is used to promote safeguarding, by teaching pupils how to stay safe, how to protect themselves from harm and how to take responsibility for their own and others’ safety; working relationships are currently being enhanced with Fire services, Police and Early Help organisations to extend and improve safeguarding outside of school and into our local community.
- A high priority given to staff training in safeguarding and weekly staff briefings which have a standard agenda item for Safeguarding.
- Robust arrangements for site security understood and applied by staff and pupils and implemented and monitored by an experienced Care Taker who ensures health and safety is at the heart of everything he does and is to a high standard. Excellent communication system established with up-to-date information
- that can be accessed and shared by those who need it including a safe and secure record keeping system.
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