Brandlehow Primary School

Safeguarding Procedures

Brandlehow Safeguarding Policy 

If you have any safeguarding concerns, please email safeguarding@brandlehow.wandsworth.sch.uk

Safeguarding procedures – circulated to those working in a voluntary capacity at Brandlehow School

Keeping Children Safe in Education: summary

This article summarises part 1 of the government's updated statutory guidance on safeguarding. It outlines what staff should know and do. It also looks at the arrangements that should be in place for safeguarding, recruitment and managing allegations.

The Department for Education (DfE)  statutory guidance on safeguarding,

Keeping children safe in education, GOV.UK – DfE

The guidance is organised into five main parts covering:

1. Safeguarding information for all staff

2. The management of safeguarding

3. Safer recruitment

4. Safeguarding concerns or allegations made about staff, including supply teachers, volunteers and contractors

5. Child-on-Child sexual violence and sexual harassment

London Grid for Learning has translated Keeping Children Safe into a number of other languages:

• Arabic
• Bengali
• Cantonese
• Mandarin
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Punjabi
• Spanish
• Urdu

The translations can be found here: kcsietranslate.lgfl.net

The DfE says the document should be read alongside the government’s inter-agency safeguarding guidance, Working Together to Safeguard Children, and its departmental advice, 'What to do if you're worried a child is being abused: advice for practitioners'. These documents are summarised in the following articles:

Working Together to Safeguard Children: summary by the NSPCC

Part one: safeguarding information for all staff

These documents explain that governing bodies should ensure that all staff read part one of the guidance, as a minimum. Part one outlines what school and college staff should know and do in relation to safeguarding.

In the document, Keeping Children Safe in Education, safeguarding is defined as protecting anyone under the age of 18 from maltreatment, preventing impairment of their health or development, ensuring they grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care, and taking action to enable them to have the best outcomes.