Safeguarding Children is Everybody's Responsibility

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as: protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.

Safeguarding is not just about protecting children from deliberate harm.  It relates to aspects of school life including:

• Pupils’ health and safety
• The use of reasonable force
• Meeting the needs of pupils with medical conditions
• Providing first aid
• Educational visits
• Intimate care
• Internet or e-safety
• Appropriate arrangements to ensure school security, taking into account the local contex

Are you concerned that a child is being abused or neglected?

If you are concerned about a child and you feel they are being abused, neglected or at risk of abuse/neglect, then you should consider making a safeguarding child referral.

Contact Blackburn with Darwen Children's Advice and Duty Service (CADS) for confidential advice and consultation. Monday to Friday 08.45-17.00 please call: 

01254 666400

If you are calling outside these hours please contact our Emergency Duty Team on 01254 587547.

You can contact the Blackburn with Darwen Local Safeguarding Children Board by following this link:

http://www.lscb.org.uk

You can also report your concerns online:

NSPCC Website: www.nspcc.org.uk

Or you can also speak to:

NSPCC 0800 800 5000

Childline 0800 1111

Useful Information for Parents - Keeping Children Safe

All safeguarding documentation is read and understood (signed) by all the teaching staff, non-teaching staff at OLPS.

The senior leadership team are responsible for the recording, implementation and tracking of all statutory updates and training requirements. 

The SLT carry out induction meetings with newly appointed staff to ensure key messages, policies and procedures are followed. 

Prevent Strategy

As part of The OLPS commitment to safeguarding and child protection we fully support the government's Prevent Strategy, and take guidance from Teaching Approaches to help build resilience to extremism.

Mrs M Staffa is the Prevent Lead at OLPS.

What is the Prevent Strategy?

The Prevent strategy is a government strategy designed to stop people becoming terrorists, supporting terrorism, fundamentalism or extremist behaviours. It:-

• responds to the ideological challenge we face from terrorism and aspects of extremism, and the threat we face from those who promote these views
• provides practical help to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and ensure they are given appropriate advice and support
• works with a wide range of sectors (including education, criminal justice, faith, charities, online and health).
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Internet and E-Safety

E-Safety is an important part of keeping children safe . We have extensive security measures in place in school to help safeguard pupils from potential dangers or unsuitable material. Internet and E-Safety is taught to all pupils explaining and demonstrating how to stay safe and behave appropriately online.

We can only be successful in keeping children safe online if we work with parents to ensure the e-Safety message is consistent. It is important that parents speak to their children about how they can keep safe and behave appropriately online.

Useful Information about staying safe online can be found at:

https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/

https://parentzone.org.uk/digitalparenting