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Safeguarding

Safeguarding and Child Protection

St Anthony's is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent, effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, children and staff at school.

School Safeguarding Team

If you want to know more about our procedures, please speak to one of the following key personnel, who are contactable via the main school office – 01274 414761 or office@stac.bcwcat.co.uk

Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL): Mr Jonathan Kendall - Deputy Headteacher

Deputy DSLs: Mrs Sarah Kenyon - Headteacher

                         Mrs Hayley Lalor - Y2 teacher

Designated Teacher for Looked After Children and Previously Looked After Children: Mr Jonathan Kendall

Designated Teacher for Prevent: Mrs Sarah Kenyon

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCo): Mrs Karen Allen

Mental Health Champion: Mrs Sarah Kenyon

Chair of the Local Academy Council: Mrs Sharon Langford

Nominated Safeguarding Academy Councillor: Mrs Sharon Langford

Prevent Academy Councillor: Mrs Sharon Langford

Looked After Children Academy Councillor: Mrs Sharon Langford

For all our Safeguarding policies please follow the link to our policy page HERE

Please find our Child Protection Procedures Flow Chart HERE *Insert Flow Chart*

Please find the Government's latest guidance on Keeping Children Safe in Education HERE

Prevent Duty

As part of St. Anthony's commitment to safeguarding and child protection we fully support the government's Prevent Duty and take guidance from Teaching Approaches to help build resilience to extremism.

What is the Prevent Duty?

The Prevent duty is the duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 on specified authorities, in the exercise of their functions, to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.

Click here to see the official Government guidance on the Prevent Duty (April 2021)

Please see our Prevent Risk Assessment HERE *Insert PREVENT Risk assessment*

For further safeguarding support, please see:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/

https://www.ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/

Signs and Symptoms of Potential Abuse

We expect all members of our school community to remain vigilant to the signs and symptoms of potential abuse and report any concerns to our Designated Safeguarding Leads.  There are 4 main categories of abuse to be aware of;

  • Physical Abuse
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Neglect 

In addition to these 4 areas, the following Safeguarding issues are also high on our agenda;

  • The Prevent Duty (Radicalisation & Extremism) 
  • Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
  • Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
  • Children Missing From Education (CME)
  • Child on Child Abuse
  • Bullying