Keeping your children safe

SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT

Keeping our children safe

At White Rock Primary School we strongly recognise the need for vigilant awareness of safeguarding issues. All staff have received appropriate training and induction so that they understand their roles and responsibilities and are confident about carrying them out. Staff, pupils, parents and governors feel secure that they can raise any issues or concerns about the safety or welfare of children and know that they will be listened to and taken seriously. This is achieved by maintaining an ethos of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. At our school we are not afraid to challenge each other to keep our children safe.

The school takes safeguarding very seriously. There is always someone available to speak to adults or children about any safeguarding concerns whether these are current or historic.

We all have a safeguarding responsibility and have a duty to refer any safeguarding issues to external agencies that need to be involved.

Who Should You Contact?

If you have a concern about a member of staff please contact the Headteacher, Mrs Tomkinson at: stomkinson@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk or phone 01803 577940.
If you have a concern about the Headteacher, please contact Jo Beer (Chair of Governors) at: jbeer@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk

If you have concerns about any child, you can contact Torbay Children's Services on: 01803 208100 or out of hours on 0300 456 4876 or email: torbay.safeguardinghub@torbay.gov.uk

SAFEGUARDING IS EVERYONE'S RESPONSIBILTY

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At White Rock Primary School we are committed to ensuring that all children are safe during their time with us. Our safeguarding covers many aspects including:

Recruiting staff and volunteers
Allowing visitors into the school
Checking attendance and following up any low attendance
Ensuring play-times are safe and enjoyable for all pupils
Educating our pupils about bullying, on line safety, staying safe in the community, drug and alcohol awareness and health education
Training staff and volunteers

Our Safeguarding Policy can be found on the school website at the following link:

https://www.whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk/policies/

ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT A CHILD?

Please call these numbers:

TORBAY - 01803 208100

TORBAY OUT OF HOURS - 0300 456 4876

or email:

http://www.devonsafeguardingchildren.org/workers-volunteers/safeguarding-hub-the-mash/

EMAIL OUR SAFEGUARDING TEAM ON:

stomkinson@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk

sclover@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk

bayling@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk