Safeguarding

At Mattersey Primary School, the health, safety and well-being of every child is our top priority. 

We believe that safeguarding and promoting our pupils' welfare is everyone's responsibility and so all staff in school receive appropriate training on a regular basis. We are fully committed to ensuring that effective safeguarding procedures are in place and expect this of all staff, governors, volunteers and visitors to our school. 

We have two Designated Safeguarding Leads for Child Protection- Mrs Lucy Wilson (Head Teacher and Senior DSL), and Mrs Victoria Hunter (Deputy DSL) who have had appropriate training for this role. We believe it is important we work together as a whole staff team for the safety and welfare of our children.  Our governor link for safeguarding is Mr Chris Bailey. 

     Mrs Lucy Wilson (DSL)

    Mrs Victoria Hunter (Deputy DSL)

There are many different ways that we ensure our school is a safe place for children: 

All staff and governors undertake statutory safeguarding training. 

We make the necessary checks when recruiting new staff to our team. 

If children have any concerns about feeling safe, there are people in school they can talk to. 

We follow rules and guidelines for keeping children safe in education. 

We follow rules and guidance for keeping children safe in regards to Covid 19.

We follow rules and guidance if children do not attend school and we ask parents to notify us of pupil absence. 

We encourage everyone to be safe online and actively promote and teach e-safety in school through our PSHE curriculum and through assemblies and enrichment days. 

Our school staff receive appropriate First Aid and Paediatric First Aid training so there are staff who know how to deal with injuries and accidents, allergies and health concerns. 

We don't take photographs or recordings without permission. 

We follow rules for using mobile phones in school and expect all visitors to do the same. 

 Our Whole School Child Protection Policy and a link to the DFE Keeping Children Safe in Education- KCSiE (September 2023) document can be found in the Important Information/Policies section of our website. Working together to Safeguard Children was  updated and published in December 2023. 

Here is a useful link for parents, professionals and children/young people to the Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Partnership and to the Mutti-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH). 

https://nscp.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/  

Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) | Nottinghamshire County Council

 Please find below our Child Protection Policy 2023/2024 and the updated Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE) 2023. Also the published Working Together to Safeguard Children published in December 2023. 

KCSiE_2023

WTSC_2023_-_statutory_framework from December 2023

WTSC_2023_-_statutory_guidance

Working_together_to_safeguard_children_2023_-_summary_of_changes Jan 24

MPS Child Protection Policy 2023_2024 UPDATED JAN 2024