Child Protection and Safeguarding      

Keeping Children and Young People Safe

Educational establishments and services must create and maintain a positive ethos and climate which actively promotes child welfare and a safe environment by:

• ensuring that children are respected and listened to.
• ensuring that health and wellbeing is central to the curriculum.
• ensuring that staff are aware of Management Circular 57 and child protection procedures and concerns.
• ensuring that any CP or Safeguarding concerns are progressed as per MC57 guidance.
• establishing and maintaining close working relationships and arrangements with all other agencies to make sure that professionals collaborate effectively in protecting children.
• ensuring the name of the Child Protection Coordinator and Depute Child Protection Coordinator(s) is on display within the establishment.

Name of CP Coordinator:   Geraldine Dolan

Name of Depute CP Coordinator(s): Samantha Johnston, Laura Anderson and Claire Smith

All educational establishments and services must take positive steps to help children and young people by ensuring that safeguarding is promoted through all elements of education including leadership, values, vision, the curriculum, learning and teaching, positive relationships, ethos and building resilience in our learners.

Safeguarding supports the development of learner’s knowledge, skills and resilience to keep themselves safe and to protect themselves and develop an understanding of the world so that they can respond to a range of issues and potential risky situations arising throughout their lives. 

Safeguarding and wellbeing issues are addressed through our personal, social and health education curriculum and care should be taken to ensure our children have opportunity to develop such knowledge and understanding within our establishments.

As with other areas of the curriculum, you will be kept informed of the health and wellbeing programme for your child’s establishment.