Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School

In the event of an urgent Safeguarding issue, please contact our Designated Safeguarding Leads: Julie Hampson Headteacher or any of her team named below.

All members of the Park Road Junior, Infant and Nursery School community aim to establish and maintain a safe and stimulating environment where children:

• feel secure

• are safe from harm

• are encouraged to talk to adults they can trust 

• are listened to

Our Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) are:

Please scroll down to see Park Road's Safeguarding Team.

Julie Hampson Designated Safeguarding Lead	Lucy Kingswell Deputy Safeguarding Lead	Josey Kutny Deputy Safeguarding Lead
Bethany Foley  Deputy Safeguarding Lead	Rebecca Jackson  Deputy Safeguarding Lead	Justi Hampson Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Safeguarding Governor: Greg Wadsworth

Through regular training, all staff are able to recognise the signs of abuse and understand their responsibilities when a child may be at risk of harm.

All staff are responsible for recording and passing on any concerns to  the designated staff. We also commit to working in partnership with external agencies in order to support and protect children. 

It is everybody's responsibility to make sure children and young people feel safe and cared for. It is important that you know who to speak to if you are concerned about  ANY child in or out of school. Passing on information could help to safeguard young people.

You can speak to any of our staff in confidence about any issues regarding the safety and well-being of children.

Click here to access our Safeguarding Policy

Safeguarding Policy 2023_24 

Child-on-Child Abuse Policy 2022

Safer Recruitment

In line with the ‘Safer Recruitment’ guidance, all staff, including volunteers who have access to children, in our school have been carefully selected and screened and all have had enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checks. Should allegations be made against members of staff we will follow LA guidance in dealing with them. This guidance ensures that the safety of the child is paramount.

Policies

Parents and carers send their children to school each day with the expectation that the school provides a safe and secure environment in which their children can flourish. We, therefore, have to ensure that this expectation becomes reality. In order to achieve this, a wide range of measures are in place. 

Governing Body

The Governing Board keeps these policies under regular review. They ensure the Headteacher provides termly updates on safeguarding as part of her report to Governors. The Governing Board appoints a named Governor for Child Protection and Looked After Children.

Operation Encompass Safeguarding Statement

Our school is part of Operation Encompass. This is a police and education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people who experience Domestic Abuse.

Operation Encompass means that the Education Safeguarding Service will share information about Domestic Abuse incidents with our school PRIOR to the start of the next school day when the police have been called to a domestic incident.

Once DSL has attended at an Operation Encompass briefing, they will cascade the principles of Operation Encompass to all DDSL’s.

Our parents are fully aware that we are an Operation Encompass school.

The Operation Encompass information is stored in line with all other confidential safeguarding and child protection information.

The DSL has also led training for all school staff and Governors about Operation Encompass, the prevalence of Domestic Abuse and the impact of this abuse on children. We have also discussed how we can support our children following the Operation Encompass notification.

We are aware that we must do nothing that puts the child/ren or the non-abusing adult at risk.

The Safeguarding Governor will report on Operation Encompass in the termly report to Governors. All information is anonymised for these reports.