Safeguarding at Chaigeley

At Chaigeley Education Foundation, safeguarding our children and young adults is our highest priority.

If you have concerns about the welfare of a child or young adult, please contact us immediately on 01925 752357, or follow this link (Warrington Safeguarding Partnership) to report your concerns.

In cases where a young person is in immediate danger, please call 999.

We are committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all our students and encourage everyone to remain vigilant.

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Working together to safeguard children - Gov

Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy

Safeguarding and Whistleblowing form an integral part of staff interviews, induction and daily working. All staff are required to read and sign an acknowledgement to demonstrate awareness and understanding of the Keeping Children safe in Education (KCSIE) document. All staff receive training on any updates to this document at least once per year.

Meet the Safeguarding Team

If you have any safeguarding concerns please contact one of the team on 01925 752 357.

Jackie Carter, our Chair of Governors, is also a point of contact as our Link Safeguarding Governor. She can be contacted at this address jackie.carter@chaigeley.org.uk.

If you are unable to speak to any of the above people you may contact Warrington Safeguarding Partnership for advice and support.

Tel: 01925 443126

Email: wscb@warrington.gov.uk

Rachel Guyer

Rachel Guyer

Deputy Principal - Designated Safeguarding Lead

Paul Lambert

Paul Lambert

Principal - Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Noel Conreen

Noel Conreen

School Business Manager - Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Jackie Carter

Jackie Carter

Chair of Governors - Link Safeguarding Governor

Robyn Shevlin

Robyn Shevlin

Therapy Lead - Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Debbie Conreen

Debbie Conreen

SENCO - Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Iolen Strettle-Jones

Iolen Strettle-Jones

Assistant SENCO - Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Eva-Mailin Anderson

Eva-Mailin Anderson

Pastoral Inclusion Manager - Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Training

All staff undergo regular safeguarding training at Chaigeley to keep up to date with the latest developments, trends, legislation, government guidance, good practice and support in relation to safeguarding. Training is undertaken in a variety of ways including: via regular SLT communications, distance learning via the School Bus platform, in-house workshops, via our safeguarding leads and by visiting training providers who have expertise in specific safeguarding areas. This network of training means we are at the necessary level of preparedness to enable us to effectively safeguard our pupils and deal with with safeguarding issues.

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Different members of the Safeguarding Team will attend all Warrington DSL events and training. Regular Safeguarding Newsletters and other information is made available to staff verbally or via the Safeguarding Notice Board. Information for the wider population, parents/carers and pupils is published on the school website.

Useful Advice & Resources

This section provides a range of useful links to help educate parents and staff to keep children safe.

Warrington Safeguarding Partnership
This website gives practical advice about the services offered in relation to the safeguarding of children in and around Warrington. Information is given on how to make a referral along with a list of useful contacts should you have a concern or require advice. Use this site if you have a concern about any child.

Know IT All for Parents
This website provides a unique, interactive guide to help you keep up to date with how children use the Internet and how you can support them in keeping safe. It is produced by ChildNet International.

ThinkUKnow for parents
This website, from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, has a section dedicated to parents with lots of useful advice. In particular check out the parent webcast!

Social Networking
This website, from ChildNet International, gives some useful advice on social networking, which lots of young people use on a daily basis.

Get safe Online
has plenty of guidance on offer regarding all aspects of online safety and specific safeguarding issues and all aspects of digital usage.

NSPCC
This website has a section for parents with advice on Internet safety.

Get safe Online
This website has guidance on mobile phone safety for children.

National College Training
Chaigeley Educational Foundation has recently implemented the National College training system which provides online training on a variety of Safeguarding issues. As part of ongoing CPD all staff are required to complete the safeguarding training.

O2 Keeping Kids Safe Online

These resources are designed to help parents have more regular conversations with their children about online safety – enabling more families to enjoy the digital world with confidence

CPOMS

We have recently transferred our paper based processes to the CPOMS system. CPOMS is a cloud based software solution for monitoring Safeguarding, wellbeing and all pastoral issues. Working alongside our existing safeguarding processes, CPOMS is an intuitive system which helps us to ensure that children, young people and adults are safe and fully supported. CPOMS allows instant notifications to be sent by mail to key stakeholders and allows us to extract supportive MI when managing safeguarding and wellbeing concerns, providing a consistent and secure solution.