Safe Guarding

What is Child Protection or Safeguarding?

Safeguarding includes all the work that school does to ensure that learners stay safe.  It includes health and safety, meeting the needs of learners with healthcare needs, site security etc.

Child Protection refers to the activity which is undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering or at risk of suffering significant harm. 

Safeguarding children is everyone's responsibility

If any person has knowledge, concerns or suspicions that a child is suffering, has suffered or is likely to be at risk of harm, it is their responsibility to ensure that the concerns are referred to social services or the police, who have statutory duties and powers to make enquiries and intervene when necessary

Wales Safeguarding Procedures

The interest of the child is paramount in all considerations of welfare and safeguarding.