SAFEGUARDING - Education in a Safe Environment

At Litton C of E Primary, the safety of our children is paramount. All staff, governors and parents are asked to work together to ensure that the school environment is a safe place to learn and to work.

We take our responsibilities for Safeguarding extremely seriously and all staff have received training in First Aid, Child Protection, Safeguarding and our duties with regard to the 'Prevent' agenda. Children are taught to use internet technology safely and all staff are asked to sign an Acceptable Use of IT Policy annually.

Please see our Keeping Children Safe page on the 'Key Information' tab for more information.

The Designated Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Caroline Hicks (Headteacher)

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Lorraine Bullock

Designated Safeguarding and Anti-bullying Governor is Mrs Gill Howland.

Important Contact Details

Starting Point (For all Safeguarding Concerns) Telephone: 01629 533 190

Out of hours Call Derbyshire (Children’s /Young Peoples and Adult Social Care) Telephone: 01629 533190

Derbyshire Police 101 - can route non urgent referrals through to the PREVENT Team

Children’s Social Care (single point of Contact-Starting Point) Telephone: 01629 5319930

Police Central Referral Unit: Butterfly Hall, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3RS Telephone: 0300 122 8719

Prevent - Seamus Carroll is the lead officer for Prevent at Derbyshire County Council

seamus.carroll@derbyshire.gov.uk Telephone 01629 538494 or 07771 980107

NSPCC - National Helpline 0808 800 5000

Childline 0800 11 11

Safeguarding Child Protection Policy for Schools

October 2023 Safeguarding Child Protection Policy for Schools.pdf

The CEOP Safety Centre

The Click CEOP button provides a gateway to the CEOP Safety Centre, an area of the CEOP website offering:

- advice on a range of online safety issues, such as hacking and cyberbullying;

- signposting to NCA
- CEOP partners offering help and support on issues outside of CEOP’s remit, such as ChildLine and BeatBullying;
- reporting of suspected or known child sex offender activity directly to CEOP for investigation .