Safeguarding
Safeguarding Statement
At Haddenham St Mary’s we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We ensure that all staff and governors have a full and active part to play in protecting our pupils from harm, and we recognise that safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in our school is the responsibility of the whole school community.
As part of our duty of care we ensure that everyone working in our school has successfully completed the necessary clearances and checks to enable them to work with children. We actively support the Government’s Prevent Agenda to counter radicalism and extremism.
All staff and volunteers are given clear guidance in how to behave and work with children and young adults. They are highly vigilant and they are required to report instances of actual or suspected child abuse or neglect to the Designated Safeguarding Leads. These staff members have been specifically trained and nominated as Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL) within the school.
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DSL – Who you need to know
The Designated Safeguarding Lead is: Mrs Karen Collett
The Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead(s) are: Mrs Emily Butler (Acting Deputy Head) and Mrs Kelly Williams (Year 1 teacher and SENDCO).
Safeguarding Governor: Mrs Gaynor Bull, who can be contacted via the School Office.
Reporting Concerns
If you have a concern about a child contact the one of the DSLs above during term time or you can call Buckinghamshire County Council’s First Response Team on 0845 4600 001 (out of hours: 0800 999 7677). They will listen to your concerns and decide on the appropriate course of action.
You can contact the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000 (free service, lines open 24 hours a day). They will listen to your concerns, offer advice and support and can take action on your behalf if a child is in danger. You can also report concerns anonymously. For further information or to report your concerns online visit: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/reporting-abuse/report
GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European law which came into effect on 25th May 2018.
All schools handle a large amount of personal data. This includes information on pupils such as grades, medical information, images and much more including data on staff, governors, volunteers and job applicants.
What is Personal data?
This data is already governed by existing DPA (Data Protection Act) regulations which ensure personal data is handled lawfully. However, the GDPR has gone further and requires organisations (including schools) to document how & why they process all personal data.
What is GDPR exactly?
The GDPR is Europe’s new framework for data protection laws – it replaces the previous 1995 data protection directive, which current UK law is based upon. The EU’s GDPR website says the legislation is designed to ‘harmonise’ data privacy laws across Europe as well as give greater protection to individuals.
The categories of pupil information that we collect, hold and share include:
- Personal information (such as name, unique pupil number and address)
- Characteristics (such as ethnicity, language, nationality, country of birth and free school meal
eligibility) - Attendance information (such as sessions attended, number of absences and absence reasons)
- Assessment information
- Safeguarding information
- SEN information
- Behavioural information
- Dietary and medical information
- Emergency contact details
- Consent forms. E.g. pictures on the website and educational visits
- Accident information
- Admission information
Data Protection Officer
The Data Protection Officer is responsible for overseeing data protection within the School so if you do have any questions in this regard, please do contact them on the information below: –