Safeguarding

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To report a safeguarding concern when school is closed please email safeguarding@brackensdalespencer.com

Schools are charged with maintaining a safe, supportive environment which protects the rights and needs of children at all times. School staff have regular contact with children and young people, and a responsibility to help to identify signs of children in need of additional support or protection accordingly.

Together, these responsibilities are called safeguarding.

At Brackensdale Spencer Academy, the safety and welfare of our children is at the heart of everything we do. We recognise our safeguarding responsibilities to include:

  • creating a safe environment for children and young people through robust safeguarding practices;
  • ensuring that adults who work in school, including volunteers, are able to work with children safely, and are properly trained and equipped to do so;
  • teaching children and young people to stay safe; and
  • maintaining an environment in which children feel confident to approach any member of staff if they have a worry or problem.

 

As part of our safeguarding delivery, Brackensdale Spencer Academy follows the procedures set out by the Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board in the Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Procedures (www.derbyshirescb.org.uk) and take account of guidance issued by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (in particular Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education 2007).

Links to safeguarding resources used in school can be found here.

A child friendly version of our school’s safeguarding policy can be found here.

 

Safeguarding Team

Mr Ben Radbourne | Designated Safeguarding Lead

 

Mrs Joanna McGregor | Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

 

Miss Samantha Hassall | Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

 

Miss Lucy Mugglestone | Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead