Keeping Our Children Safe at Whaley Thorns Primary School

At Whaley Thorns Primary School we all work incredibly hard to make sure our school is a welcoming place for the whole school community, where children's wellbeing, mental health and safety is our top priority.

Our designated safeguarding lead is Mrs Lupton and Miss Slack is the deputy designated safeguarding leads.

Please feel free to bring any concerns relating to the safety and well being of any of our children to any of these members of staff.

Whaley Thorns Primary School has policies and procedures in place to deal effectively with child protection and safeguarding issues.

To provide a safe environment for our children, our selection and recruitment processes include all statutory checks on staff, governors and regular volunteers including enhanced DBS, (disclosure and barring service), checks.

All staff are trained at a level appropriate to their safeguarding responsibilities:
All staff and governors receive annual safeguarding training to remind them of their responsibilities and ensure safeguarding protocols are followed.
Designated and deputy designated safeguarding leads attend more specific training.
All staff are trained in basic first aid and a further five members of staff are trained specifically in paediatric first aid.

Mrs Lupton, Miss Slack, Mr Wormall and Mrs Hardy, (our Safeguarding link Governors), are trained in the safer recruitment of staff and our anti-bullying committee and Peer Listeners, are trained in active listening. They know what issues they can deal with themselves and what issues they must report.

If you have immediate concerns about the safety or welfare of a child then please contact Call Derbyshire on 01629 533190

Please follow the links below to find out more Information about some of our anti-bullying strategies and interventions:

• ​Peer Listeners
• ​i-vengers
• The Prevent Strategy
• Keeping Children Safe - NSPCC Share Aware Campaign
• Keeping your child safe on YouTube 
• ​Keeping your child safe on a smart phone
• ​Checking your child's games, apps and social media
• Online Safety 
• ​Mental Health and Well-Being
• Parent Info Articles on Keeping Children Safe​
• ​Anti-Bullying