Safeguarding is the top agenda at Pinders Primary School.

What is Safeguarding?

Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm.

Safeguarding means:

• protecting children from abuse and maltreatment
• preventing harm to children's health or development
• ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care
• taking action to enable all children and young people to have the best outcomes.

Safeguarding children and child protection guidance and legislation applies to all children up to the age of 18.

What is Child Protection?

Child Protection is part of Safeguarding and promoting welfare. It refers to the activity that is undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering, or are likely to suffer, significant harm.

Pinders Safeguarding Team

The safeguarding team is in charge of keeping children safe at home and at school. They are called Designated Safeguarding Leads.

Safer recruitment

Pinders Primary School follows safer recruitment policy and guidelines, in line with Department for Education guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. This is to ensure all recruitment for employees, volunteers and placements, is both safe and fair. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people is an integral factor in recruitment and selection and is an essential first step in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and creating safe environments for children and young people.

Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy

You can find out more in our Safeguarding policies below:

The children all have access to the child friendly version of the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy on the child friendly safeguarding page.

Staff Understanding of Safeguarding and Child Protection

All staff must read and sign Part 1 of Keeping children Safe in Education 2021 and all staff receive a minimum or one safeguarding and child protection training session annually.

Additionally there is a rolling programme of professional development for child facing staff to address safeguarding themes throughout the academic year.

Staff Training

Safeguarding is the responsibility of all staff at Pinders Primary School and all the teachers,  teaching assistants and other staff undergo regular training in Safeguarding, including (but not limited to): Child Protection, Safer Recruitment, First Aid, Prevent (the name given to the training which aims to prevent young children becoming radicalised) and Identifying Children at Risk of FGM and other safeguarding risks.

All staff and governors complete an annual safeguarding training which also includes staff and governors reading and agreeing to the DFE guidelines ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education (Part 1)’, the school’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policy documents.

Online safety

At Pinders Primary School, we take online safety very seriously in school and use the SMART rules to ensure all our children stay safe online. Children learn about keeping safe online and how to protect themselves through the curriculum in Computing and RSHE lessons.

It is important that parents are well-informed and know what children are accessing online at home, especially if they have their own phones, tablets or computers. You can find out more about how to keep your child safe online from the links below.

Useful links for parents:

Parents and Volunteers

All parents and Volunteers must have read and signed the Volunteer / Parent Agreement Form before they start a placement at Pinders Primary School.

Operation Encompass

Our school takes part in a project that runs jointly between all schools in Wakefield, Wakefield Council and Wakefield Police. This project is designed to provide early reporting to schools of any domestic abuse incidents that occur outside of normal school hours and that might have had an impact on a child attending our premises the following day: See our Safeguarding Policy for more information.

Please find below links to other useful weblinks  about safety: