Our children said:

"I feel safe when I am with grown ups I know and trust."

"I feel safe when I am with my family, friends, teachers and people I trust."

"I feel safe when I am at home, at school and when I am with a trusted adult."

"We feel safe when we are in the hands of trusted adults, who provide protection, as they guide us through obstacles in life; enabling us to make our own informed choices. "

"I feel safe when I am not alone."

"I feel safe when I am with a grown up that I know will look after me."

"Safe means not coming to harm and feeling comfortable, secure and protected in an unfamiliar environment. When you feel safe you trust people around you so feel relaxed and calm."

Our Commitment to Safeguarding

We aim to work in partnership and have an important role in the inter-agency safeguarding arrangements as set out by the current versions of Working Together to Safeguard Children and Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE). KCSIE applies to all school, colleges and providers who educate children up to the age of 19.

Everyone working in, or for our school, shares an objective to help keep children and young people safe by contributing to:

• providing a safe environment for children and young people to learn and develop in our school setting
• identify children and young people who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harm, and taking appropriate action with the aim of making sure they are kept safe both within and outside of our school setting
• creating a whole school approach to safeguarding through a culture of care where children are listened to, and heard, with the knowledge that their concerns and worries will be taken seriously

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the well-being of all our children. Each child’s welfare is of paramount importance. We will always take a considered and sensitive approach in order that we can support all our children.

Key Personnel

Online safety is a vital part of keeping children safe at St Andrew's C.E. Primary School. We strongly encourage sensible and safe use of digital and online technologies as they open up huge possibilities for learning for all our children.

At St. Andrew’s, we are committed to supporting children and staff with their wellbeing and mental health. We know that wellbeing, physical and mental health are all vital to successful learning.

• School Policies
• Talk Pants Guidance for parents on talking to your child about keeping themselves safe.from abuse
• County Lines County Lines describes the mobile phone lines used by criminal gangs to organise illegal drugs to be moved and sold from one village, town or city to another across the UK. Children are most often used to move and sell the drugs. They are recruited by gang members who pose as friends and then trap the young people into a terrifying cycle of violence, exploitation and abuse. Children caught up in County Lines are not criminals – they are victims of exploitation at the hands of organised criminal gangs.
• Domestic Abuse Domestic abuse is not a one-off incident, but an ongoing pattern of behaviour in the relationship. It includes a range of behaviours which, once begun, repeats and often gets worse over time.
• Domestic Abuse Domestic abuse: guidance and support for the armed forces community
• Healthy Minds Self Help and Emotional Wellbeing Advice
• Online Safety Helping you to better protect your children online.

• Prevent It can be hard to know what to do if you're worried someone close is expressing extreme views or hatred, which could lead to them harming themselves or others. Working with other organisations, the police protect vulnerable people from being exploited by extremists through a Home Office programme called Prevent.
• Substance Misuse Support for young people to make positive changes around drugs and alcohol in Lincolnshire.
• Substance Misuse Oasis Family Support provides advice, information and emotional support to Children, Young People, Adults and Families in Lincolnshire whose lives have been or are negatively impacted by a loved one's use of drugs or alcohol.
• Team Around the Child - TAC Team Around the Child (TAC) offers Early Help and support for children as soon as we have a worry about them. TAC is how different people services work together to help children and their families at any point in their and The TAC Journey lives to prevent or reduce difficulties before they become too difficult
• Young Carers A Resource for Young Carers

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