Safeguarding our children, staff and visitors is a fundamental part of our work. Within our school, we follow clear policies and procedures to ensure that children are safe from harm. School adheres to DfE Guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ which is underpinned by our school policy and practice.
The Safeguarding Policy and Procedure is available here.
Our Designated Safeguarding Lead is:
Elizabeth Evans (Headteacher)
Our Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads are:
Charley Caine (Acting Deputy Headteacher) & Tina Nightingale (Pastoral Lead)
Please click here to read ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024’.
As part of Holy Family RC Primary School’s commitment to keeping children safe we have signed up to implement the principles and aims of the Encompass Model.
In signing up to Encompass the Governing Body and Senior Leadership Team:
Mrs Maureen Conlon Mrs Elizabeth Evans
Chair of Governors Head Teacher
While there are huge benefits to being online in order to stay connected to friends and family, it’s important to have regular conversations with your children about staying safe online and encouraging them to talk to you if they see anything worrying.
What harms might my child experience online?
You may have concerns about specific harms that your children experience online including: abuse, criminal exploitation, exposure to radicalising content, consensual and non-consensual sharing of images/videos, cyber-bullying, exposure to age-inappropriate content and harmful content.
Where can I go for help?
These resources will support you to talk to your child about a range of online safety issues, set up home filtering in a child-friendly way and set up age-appropriate parental controls on digital devices:
Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child’s welfare. We will ensure that our concerns about our pupils are discussed with his/her parents/carers first unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child’s welfare.
We actively support the Government’s Prevent Agenda to counter radicalism and extremism.
The Prevent strategy is a key part of the UK government’s counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, and is focused on preventing individuals from being drawn into terrorism or extremist ideologies. In schools, the Prevent strategy is implemented as part of a broader duty of care, aiming to safeguard children from risks of radicalisation.
Possible signs include:
Prevent principles are integrated into our curriculum, including:
Early Help is in place to ensure that families have help and support at the point of need. School is equipped to provide support to families and is able to access a range of services on behalf of families and children.
We have highly skilled staff who are equipped to provide support and advice to help families if they are experiencing any issues from routines at home to accessing support for housing. Louise Culpin (School based Social Worker) and Catherine Blanshard (Children’s Counsellor) can be reached through the school office or on the days when they are available on site (Louise works on Thursdays and Catherine on Wednesday afternoons).
Our Pastoral Lead, Mrs Nightingale, is always on hand to provide help for parents. She can be reached by contacting the school office or calling into school during the school day.
Rochdale Local Authority have issued an Early Help Guide for families, which is available here.
