St Annes Catholic Primary School
Wellington Road
Nantwich
Cheshire
CW5 7DA
Main Contact: Mrs M Ashbrooke, School Business Manager
Tel: 01270 260783
office@stannes.cheshire.sch.uk
Safeguarding
Safeguarding Statement
At St Anne’s Catholic Primary School we respect and value all children and are committed to providing a caring, friendly and safe environment for all our pupils so they can learn in a relaxed and secure atmosphere. We believe every pupil should be able to participate in all school activities in an enjoyable and safe environment and be protected from harm. This is the responsibility of every adult employed by, or invited to deliver services at St Anne’s Catholic Primary School. We recognise our responsibility to safeguard all who access school and promote the welfare of all our pupils by protecting them from physical, sexual or emotional abuse, neglect and bullying.
Safeguarding Champions
Each year, children fill in an application form to become a children's safeguarding champion. Safeguarding champions work with the headteacher, governors and site manager in completing safety walks, discussing relevant safeguarding issues, supporting children on the playground, reporting to governors and presenting assemblies to the children.
At St. Anne's we also have children's safeguarding policy which the safeguarding champions helped us to prepare. This is shared with all of our children in an assembly. It outlines the key principles of our responsibility to keep everyone safe in child friendly writing. Please click on the file below to read our children's safeguarding policy.
Operation Encompass
The school has been given the opportunity to take part in a project that will run jointly between schools and Cheshire Police.
Operation Encompass is the reporting of police attended domestic abuse incidents to schools, prior to the start of the next school day, where there are children in the home.
Operation Encompass will ensure that a member of the school staff, (DSL) known as a Key Adult, is trained to allow them to liaise with the police and to use the information that has been shared in confidence, while ensuring that the school is able to make provision for possible difficulties experienced by children, or their families, who have experienced a domestic abuse incident.
We are keen to offer the best support possible to all our pupils and we believe this will be extremely beneficial for all those involved
Please click on the below link for more information about Operation Encompass.
https://www.operationencompass.org/
Prevent Strategy
The aim of Prevent is to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Prevent also extends to supporting the rehabilitation and disengagement of those already involved in terrorism.
As of July2015,allschoolshaveadutytosafeguardchildrenand young people from radicalisation and extremism. This means we have a responsibility to protect our pupils from extremist and violentviews.Importantly,weaimtoprovideasafeplacefor students to discuss these issues, if required, so they better understand how to protect themselves.
For more information on our prevent strategy, please see the 'Prevent Strategy for Parents' below or click on the following link.
https://www.educateagainsthate.com/parents/
Online Safety
Our school aims to:
Have robust processes in place to ensure the online safety of pupils, staff, volunteers and governors
Identify and support groups of pupils that are potentially at greater risk of harm online than others
Deliver an effective approach to online safety, which empowers us to protect and educate the whole school community in its use of technology, including mobile and smart technology (which we refer to as ‘mobile phones’)
Establish clear mechanisms to identify, intervene and escalate an incident, where appropriate
The 4 key categories of risk
Our approach to online safety is based on addressing the following categories of risk, the 4 C's:
Content – being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful content, such as pornography, fake news, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, antisemitism, radicalisation and extremism
Contact – being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users, such as peer-to-peer pressure, commercial advertising and adults posing as children or young adults with the intention to groom or exploit them for sexual, criminal, financial or other purposes
Conduct – personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm, such as making, sending and receiving explicit images (e.g. consensual and non-consensual sharing of nudes and semi-nudes and/or pornography), sharing other explicit images and online bullying; and
Commerce – risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and/or financial scams
St. Anne's uses 'Netsweeper' as our filtering and monitoring service which is provided by Schools Broadband.
Other Useful Websites including resources for staying safe online, domestic abuse and bullying.
http://www.childline.org.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
https://nationalonlinesafety.com
