Safeguarding

We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding all children at Holy Trinity Church School and expect everyone to share this commitment. In line with our safeguarding policy and statutory guidance, we have clear procedures in school for responding to any concerns about a child’s safety or wellbeing. All staff and adults are DBS cleared. We follow procedures set out by the Somerset Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) and take into account guidance issued by the DfE in Keeping Children Safe in Education September 2024 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023.

Key Contacts

The Assistant Head Teacher, Miss Claire West, is the Designated Safeguarding Lead. She can be contacted via the school office on 01935 472902 or by email [email protected].  During holidays or in an emergency, if you are worried about a child, please call Somerset Direct on 0300 1232224.

Mr Adam Beauford and Mrs Jo Veryard are Deputy Safeguarding leads.

Three senior members of staff have undertaken Home Office PREVENT training and are accredited trainers for the school - Mr Adam Beauford, Mrs Joanne Veryard and Miss Claire West. Prevent awareness is discussed regularly and staff have annual safeguarding refresher training. A leaflet for parents has been sent home to all families and can be downloaded below. Please do contact us if you have any questions or concerns about anything related to this work.

We welcome any support offered by outside agencies and regularly use a range of NSPCC materials to ensure our children all have up to date information to support them.

Mr Olly Baldwyn is our Safeguarding Governor and reviews our safeguarding procedures on a termly basis. He can be contacted via the school office. Please see the link to our website's contact page: 

contact us page

Key Documents

Please see policy page for safeguarding policy

Please see the staff and volunteers' code of conduct:

Please see policy page for code of conduct

SAFER RECRUITMENT AND VISITORS TO THE SCHOOL

The school is secure during the school day, so all visitors are asked to report to the main entrance. Please be mindful that for everybody’s safety, identification procedures will be carried out; a copy of which are displayed by the office for your information.

All members of staff are vetted against national safeguarding procedures before being allowed to work in school. At least one member of every interview panel has undertaken safer recruitment training to ensure that best practices and all necessary checks are carried out.

Staff in school work in partnership with other agencies such as Health Authorities, the FIS (Family Intervention Service)Team, Social Care and the Police. 

Useful Links 

Online Safety 

Prevent 

USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND CONTACTS

Link to Keeping Children Safe in Education:

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024

Working Together to Safeguard children:

Working_together_to_safeguard_children_2023_statutory_guidance

Children Missing in Education Guidance:

Childline: 0800 1111

childline website

South West Child Protection Procedures website:

If you are concerned about a child's welfare or worried they are being abused please contact one of the safeguarding team in school. Alternatively you can make direct contact with the Local Authority via the link below.

South West Child Protection Procedures website

Children's Social Care  0300 123 2224

Please see our contact us page for school contact details.

Click the link below for more information on PREVENT

educate against hate website

Other useful Websites:

Net Aware

NSPCC

Internet matters website for online gaming facts

employee privacy notice

prevent information for parents

publication scheme

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