Safeguarding
Safeguarding and Child Protection
St Anthony's is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent, effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, children and staff at school.
School Safeguarding Team
If you want to know more about our procedures, please speak to one of the following key personnel, who are contactable via the main school office – 01274 414761 or office@stac.bcwcat.co.uk
Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL): Mr Jonathan Kendall - Deputy Headteacher
Deputy DSLs: Mrs Sarah Kenyon - Headteacher
Mrs Hayley Lalor - Y2 teacher
Designated Teacher for Looked After Children and Previously Looked After Children: Mr Jonathan Kendall
Designated Teacher for Prevent: Mrs Sarah Kenyon
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCo): Mrs Karen Allen
Mental Health Champion: Mrs Sarah Kenyon
Chair of the Local Academy Council: Mrs Sharon Langford
Nominated Safeguarding Academy Councillor: Mrs Sharon Langford
Prevent Academy Councillor: Mrs Sharon Langford
Looked After Children Academy Councillor: Mrs Sharon Langford
For all our Safeguarding policies please follow the link to our policy page HERE
Please find our Child Protection Procedures Flow Chart HERE *Insert Flow Chart*
Please find the Government's latest guidance on Keeping Children Safe in Education HERE
Prevent Duty
As part of St. Anthony's commitment to safeguarding and child protection we fully support the government's Prevent Duty and take guidance from Teaching Approaches to help build resilience to extremism.
What is the Prevent Duty?
The Prevent duty is the duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 on specified authorities, in the exercise of their functions, to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.
Click here to see the official Government guidance on the Prevent Duty (April 2021)
Please see our Prevent Risk Assessment HERE
For further safeguarding support, please see:
https://www.ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/
Signs and Symptoms of Potential Abuse
We expect all members of our school community to remain vigilant to the signs and symptoms of potential abuse and report any concerns to our Designated Safeguarding Leads. There are 4 main categories of abuse to be aware of;
- Physical Abuse
- Sexual Abuse
- Emotional Abuse
- Neglect
In addition to these 4 areas, the following Safeguarding issues are also high on our agenda;
- The Prevent Duty (Radicalisation & Extremism)
- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
- Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
- Children Missing From Education (CME)
- Child on Child Abuse
- Bullying