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Date of last central September 2018 Review Period: 1 year (minimum) office review: Date of next central September 2019 Owner: Darren Ellison-Lee office review: Date of next school September 2019 level review: Type of policy: United Learning Policy Local Governing Recommends school Body policy for Group Board approval. Group Board: Group Board approves United Learning Policy Review Timetable The Policy will be reviewed annually, as set out below: Policy reviewed centrally September 2019 Policy tailored by individual schools September 2019 Policy ratified by Local Governing Bodies October 2018 Policy approved by the Group Board Implementation of Group Policy September 2018 LMS_ChildProtection_130918 Page 1 of 36 Contents 1. Key External Contacts Page 3-4 2. Key School Contact Details Page 4-5 3. Policy Statement Page 6 4. Concerns about a Child Page 6 5. Procedures for Dealing with Concerns About a Child Page 7 6. Arrangements for Dealing with Peer on Peer Allegations Page 11 7. Arrangements for dealing with concerns/allegations of abuse against Teachers and other staff (including the Head, Governors and Volunteers Page 16 8. Staff Behaviour policy / Code of Conduct Page 17 9. Safer Recruitment Page 18 10. Managing Safeguarding Page 18 11. Training Page 19 12. Oversight of Safeguarding, including arrangements for reviewing policies and procedures Page 20 13. The School’s arrangements to fulfil other Safeguarding responsibilities Page 21 14. Early Years Safeguarding Arrangements Page 22 15. Boarding Arrangements Page 23 APPENDIX 1: Signs and Types of Abuse Page 25 APPENDIX 2: Meet the Safeguarding Team Page 30 APPENDIX 3: Safeguarding Training Log Page 31 APPENDIX 4: Staff Student Letter and Guidance Notes 2018 Page 32 LMS_ChildProtection_130918 Page 2 of 36 1. Key External Contact Details Local Authority Designated Officer Paul Fisher Tel: 01522 554085 / 553975 Fax: 01522 554267 Email: [email protected] Local Authority Children’s Social Services Yvonne Sherwood Tel: 01522 554085 / 553975 Fax: 01522 55426 Email: [email protected] OUT OF HOURS EMERGENCY DUTY TEAM Tel: 01522 554085 Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub Tel: 01522 554085 / 553975 Email: [email protected] Support and Advice about Extremism Police PC Riz Chothia, PREVENT Officer East Midlands Special Operations Unit – Special Branch Incorporating the East Midlands Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit Tel: 01522 885350 or 01522 558304 EMERGENCY: 999 NON-EMERGENCY NUMBER: 101 Email: [email protected] Local Authority TEL: 01522 555367 Email: [email protected] Prevent Lead: Prevent Officer Department for Education NON-EMERGENCY NUMBER: 020 7340 7264 Email: [email protected] NSPCC whistleblowing advice line Address: Weston House, 42 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3NH Tel: 0800 028 0285 Email: [email protected] LMS_ChildProtection_130918 Page 3 of 36 Disclosure and Barring Service Address: PO Box 181, Darlington, DL1 9FA Tel: 01325 953795 Email: [email protected] Teaching Regulation Agency Address: 53-55 Butts Road, Earlsdon Park, Coventry, CV1 3BH Tel: 0207 593 5393 Email: [email protected] OFSTED Safeguarding Children Tel: 0300 123 4666 (Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm) Email: [email protected] 2. Key School Contact Details United Church Schools Trust (UCST) Chair of UCST Mr Richard Greenhalgh Tel: 01832 864 444 Email: [email protected] Head of Independent Schools Ian Young Tel: 01832 864506/07585301090 EMAIL: [email protected] Head of Safeguarding Darren Ellison-Lee, Director of Primary Education Tel: 07713491000 Email: [email protected] Lead Designated Safeguarding Lead (United Learning) Fiona Lyon Tel: 07889645086 Email: [email protected] Local Governing Body (LGB) Chair of LGB Linda Heaver Tel: 07941211984 Email: [email protected] Nominated Safeguarding Governor of LGB Linda Heaver Tel: 07941211984 Email: [email protected] Nominated E-Safety Governor of LGB Linda Heaver Tel: 07941211984 LMS_ChildProtection_130918 Page 4 of 36 Email: [email protected] Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) {and Main DSL for the School Deputy Designed Safeguarding Leads Jenny Muir (DDSLs)} Tel: 01522 551300 Email: [email protected] Fiona Thomas Tel: 01522 243003 Email: [email protected] Deputy DSL Sam Joyce Tel: 01522 551300 [email protected] Victoria Whitworth Tel: 01522 524622 Email: [email protected] Bethan Hall Tel: 01522 243008 [email protected] EYFS DSL Victoria Whitworth TEL: 01522 524622 Email: [email protected] Designated E-Safety Lead Jenny Muir Tel: 01522 551300 Email: [email protected] Fiona Thomas Tel: 01522 243003 Email: [email protected] Designated Teachers for Looked After Jenny Muir Children Tel: 01522 551300 Email: [email protected] Fiona Thomas Tel: 01522 243003 Email: [email protected] Headmaster Mark Wallace Tel: 01522 551300 Email: [email protected] LMS_ChildProtection_130918 Page 5 of 36 3. Policy Statement This policy applies to Lincoln Minster School which includes the EYFS setting. United Church Schools Trust requires the School’s Local Governing Body to review and update this policy annually (as a minimum). This policy is available on the School website. This policy is ratified annually by the United Learning Group Board. This policy has regard to the following guidance and advice: Keeping Children Safe in Education (September 2018) (‘KCSIE’) • Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006 (July 2018) • What to do if you're worried a child is being abused: advice for practitioners (March 2015) • Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges (May 2018) Working Together to Safeguard Children (July 2018) • Information sharing: advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services (July 2018) • Revised Prevent Duty Guidance for England and Wales (July 2015) • The Prevent Duty: Departmental advice for schools and childminders (June 2015) • The use of social media for on-line radicalisation (July 2015) This policy also takes into account the procedures and practice of Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children’s Board and the published safeguarding arrangements set out by the Lincolnshire Children’s Safeguarding Children Board. 4. Concerns about a Child The School has a duty to consider at all times the best interests of the student and take action to enable all students to achieve the best outcomes. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone has a role to play in identifying concerns, sharing information and taking prompt action in accordance with this policy. The School has arrangements for listening to children and providing early help and processes for children to raise concerns about themselves or their peers. All pupils are allocated a form tutor and, in the senior school, a Head of Year. Pupils are encouraged to speak to any member of staff with whom they feel comfortable about any concerns. Teachers with particular responsibility for pastoral care such as tutors, Heads of Year and the Assistant Head Pastoral are signposted to pupils as those to seek out for help or guidance. Information for pupils about who they can speak to can be found around school. The school also employs a School Counsellor to whom pupils can self-refer; Form tutors, Heads of Year and the Assistant Head Pastoral can also refer pupils. Lincoln Minster School uses the Early Help Assessment to identify the holistic needs of a child and seek support through the Early Help Consultants or Team Around the Child Coordinators. Lincoln Minster School acknowledges serious case review findings and shares lessons learned with all staff with the aim to ensure no child falls through the gap. LMS_ChildProtection_130918 Page 6 of 36 All staff understand the ‘Meeting the Needs of Children in Lincolnshire’ procedures and know how to pass on any concerns no matter how trivial they seem. They are consistent with Lincolnshire's Local Safeguarding Children’s (LSCB) child protection procedures. Staff should expect to support social workers and other agencies following any referral. 4.1 Definitions of Safeguarding and Types and Signs of Abuse Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes. Abuse is a form of maltreatment of a child. Somebody may abuse or neglect a child by inflicting harm or by failing to act to prevent harm. Children may be abused in a family or in an institutional or community setting by those known to them or, more rarely, by others (e.g. via the internet). Abuse can take place wholly online, or technology may be used to facilitate offline abuse. They may be abused by an adult or adults or by another child or children. Abuse can be: • physical abuse • emotional abuse • sexual abuse; and/or • neglect. Staff are referred to Appendix 1 of this policy for further detail of the types of abuse and possible signs of abuse. 5. Procedures for Dealing with Concerns about a Child If staff suspect or hear