Safeguarding and Child Protection
Safeguarding Children is Everybody’s Responsibility…
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is of paramount importance and is everyone’s responsibility.
It is the responsibility of every member of staff, volunteer and regular visitor to our school to ensure that they carry out the requirements of this policy and, at all times, work in a way that will safeguard and promote the welfare of all of the pupils at this school. This includes the responsibility to provide a safe environment in which children can learn.
At English Martyrs’ we recognise that staff at our school play a particularly important role as they are in a position to identify concerns early and provide help for children to prevent concerns from escalating. All staff are advised to maintain an attitude of ‘it could happen here’ where safeguarding is concerned. When concerned about the welfare of a child, staff members must always act in the best interests of the child.
Our school will establish and maintain an ethos where children feel secure, are encouraged to talk, are listened to and are safe. Children will be able to talk freely to any member of staff at our school if they are worried or concerned about something.
All staff and regular visitors will, through training and induction, know how to recognise indicators of concern, how to respond to a disclosure from a child and how to record and report this information. We will not make promises to any child and we will not keep secrets. Every child will know that an adult will have to share and follow procedures with any information they have chosen to disclose.
Throughout our curriculum we will provide activities and opportunities for children to develop the skills they need to identify risks and stay safe. This will also be extended to include material that will encourage our children to develop essential life skills.
At all times we will work in partnership and endeavour to establish effective working relationships with parents, carers and colleagues from other agencies in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) and local safeguarding partners’ procedures.
We are an Operation Encompass School. Operation Encompass
Designated Leads
Our Designated Leads for Safeguarding and Child Protection are our Headteacher, Miss M Elliott and our Deputy Head, Mr. A Kennedy who can be contacted in confidence by calling 0191 2747463 or email office@emcps.co.uk
Our Deputy Designated Leads for Safeguarding and Child Protection are
Mr. A Young (Assistant Headteacher)
Mrs. J Kenny School Business Manager)
Miss L Moran (Family Support Officer)
Safeguarding Governor
Our Governor for Safeguarding and Child Protection is Mr. P. Douglass, who can be contacted in confidence by calling school on 0191 2747463 or by emailing concerns to Office@emcps.co.uk
Safeguarding Policy
Here is a link to our Safeguarding Policy:
Are you worried about a child?
Report a concern about a child or young person
If you are ever concerned that a child is in immediate danger call the police on 999.
If you are worried about a child or young person living in Newcastle call Children's Social Care on 0191 277 2500.
During office hours
If you are concerned about a child or young person:
report a concern about a child or young person online, call us on 0191 277 2500 (weekdays 8:45am to 5pm)
You can also discuss any concerns with someone who works with children and families, for example your health worker, social worker, school nurse or teacher (all schools have a teacher responsible for child protection).
If you are a professional working with families and children please:
report a concern about a child or young person as a professional online
Out of office hours
If the issue cannot wait until the next working day, call our Emergency Duty Team on 0191 278 7878.
Report a concern about a child or young person