Safeguarding
At Kingsway Primary School, the health, safety and well-being of every child is our top priority. We expect all staff, governors and volunteers to share this commitment to safeguarding our pupils.
We listen to our pupils and take seriously what they tell us. All school staff receive regular training and children are made aware of the adults they can talk to if they have any concerns. Staff are trained to look out for signs of physical/emotional harm or neglect and are required to report these to the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL).
The Designated Safeguarding Lead at Kingsway is Miss Baskeyfield. The Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads are Miss Lowe and Mrs Jones. Mr Walker, Mr Taylor and Mr Dale have also received Designated Safeguarding Lead training.
At Kingsway Primary School, our Safeguarding team are dedicated to keeping all our children and families safe. The team comprises of :
Miss Baskeyfield - DSL
Miss Lowe and Mrs Jones - DDSL
Mr Walker - SENDCO, Mental Health Lead, Early Help Lead and Trafford Team Together Lead
Mr Taylor - EYFS Lead
Mrs Jones - Computing Lead and Online Safety Lead
Mr Dale - Lunchtime Lead
Mr Devlin - Safeguarding Link Governor
At Kingsway Primary School we believe it is important to make children and young people aware that unacceptable behaviour towards them will not be tolerated. Our PSHE curriculum supports children to be able to recognise when their safety becomes compromised and to know what they can do about it.
In school, we are proactive at raising pupil awareness of how they can stay safe through organised events such as Anti Bullying week and On-line safety training.
We are a values-based school and we value pupil voice highly. In order to recognise this, we have a pupil elected Pupil Parliament to ensure that pupil voice is sought, heard, and acted upon.
Encompass
Our school is part of a project, which is run between Trafford Local Authority, schools and Greater Manchester Police. The project called Operation Encompass, has been designed to provide early reporting of any domestic abuse incidents that occur outside school, which might have an impact on a child in school. This is communicated through a secure email to school following an incident.
The project ensures that at least one member of the school staff, known as the Key Adult, is available to liaise with children’s services and the police and to use the information that has been shared, in confidence.
In this way, we aim to support each child who has been involved in, or witnessed, a domestic abuse incident.
The Key Adult for Kingsway Primary School is Miss Baskeyfield.
If Miss Baskeyfield receives an Encompass notification, she will make sure that a person that the child trusts is available to help – if the child needs this. Most of the time this support is silent; keeping a careful eye on him or her and making sure the child has a calm school day. The confidential information is ordinarily not shared with all staff, just an agreement on how to help, if needed.
All schools have a duty to share any information with other organisations if they feel a child is at risk of being hurt. The Key Adult may contact other organisations if this is deemed appropriate or necessary.
The sharing of information from the police allows the school to be ready to help your child straight away, and it means that parents are aware that the Key Adult knows that something has happened. Parents can come and talk to our Key Adult. The Key Adult can point you towards other people that can help.
Our aim is to support children and their families - we are here to help.
If you wish to find out more, please click on the link below to take you to the Trafford safeguarding webpage.
Safeguarding information for Kingsway Parents:
