Meet Our Safeguarding Leads
Working Together
The staff and governors at The Elms School fully recognise that they have a duty to ensure arrangements are in place for safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children. We adhere to the Local Authority’s Safeguarding Children Board Procedures and to Keeping Children Safe in education (KCSIE). We adopt the principle that ‘it could happen here’ at The Elms. Please help us by becoming a part of our vigilant team whilst on our school site. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility.
Best Practice
The safeguarding structure at The Elms draws from the importance placed on the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads (DDSL) roles in KCSIE, as well as factoring in the structure and lines of communication within the school’s leadership and governance teams. Utilising the annual consultancy body, ensures that the first stage of our safeguarding system – policy – is constantly in focus and works toward best practice. The school has strong, current evidence of the effective use of policy.
Quality Training
Staff allocated to direct safeguarding roles at The Elms have a combination of expertise, supported by quality training, and capacity within their roles to execute their function as individuals and as a team. Online safety leadership is delegated where specialist knowledge, specifically in the realms of filtering and monitoring, exists.
Safeguarding Culture
The Elms Safeguarding culture is centred on a few core elements:
shared responsibility, vigilance, outward-facing and reflective, bottom-up (driven by the child’s lived experience and voice).
If you are concerned about the safety of any child in our school, you must report this to one of the Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL). If you are concerned about the conduct of a member of staff or volunteer in our school you must contact the Headmaster. In the absence of the Headmaster, the Deputy Head Pastoral or Deputy Head Academic must be contacted.
Visitor Procedures
Visitors must sign in at reception. Visitors must wait in reception until a member of staff escorts you to where you need to be.
Visitor lanyards must be worn and visible at all times whilst on the school site. Visitors wearing a red lanyard MUST remain under the supervision of a designated member of staff whilst on site.
All visitors must sign out and return their visitor lanyard at reception before leaving the site.
Visitors wishing to speak to a particular member of staff should telephone the school to make an appointment, wherever possible.
