Safeguarding 

If you have any concerns or wish to contact our Designated Safeguarding Lead, please email:

pastoral@st-peters-sittingbourne.kcsp.org.uk

If you have any concerns about your child or any other pupil at St Peter's, please speak to any of the named DSLs above.

Disclosures from pupils are always referred to the designated adult responsible for Safeguarding.

Safeguarding Statement

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people is at the heart of our vision, ethos and working practice. The Trust recognises that all our staff have a responsibility to safeguard children in accordance with the principles established by the Children Acts 1989 and 2004 and related guidance.

All employees, volunteers and governors within the Trust have access to and receive regular training in relation to safeguarding and child protection.

Safeguarding of our pupils is of paramount importance at St Peter's Catholic Primary School.

All members of staff are subject to a full, enhanced, DBS check prior to employment and 'Safer Recruitment' procedures are followed.

All members of staff receive training on an annual basis to confirm procedures in school.  This includes understanding and identifying possible areas of concern.

Volunteers in school are supervised at all times.  Parents volunteering for specific roles in school are subject to a DBS check as they may work unsupervised  with pupils present.

All visitors to school are required to sign in at the school office and present identification.

Further information on related policies can be found below:

 Statutory Information and Policies (Our Key Information menu tab)

Please visit the children's page for useful child-friendly information by clicking here. 

The Things I Wish My Parents Had Known

The Children’s Commissioner has compiled a useful guide to help parents and carers in discussing online sexual harassment with their children: “The Things I Wish My Parents Had Known” draws together advice from teenagers about how parents should manage tricky conversations around sexual harassment and access to inappropriate content, including pornography. Although this guidance will be most useful to the parents of secondary school-age children, you will see that the overriding message from the young contributors is 'talk early, talk often'. They suggest broaching topics before a child is given a phone or a social media account, which is often around the age of 9 or 10. The children are asking for age‑appropriate conversations that evolve over time in line with their growing maturity; they want their mums and dads to create a safe, judgment‑free space for them to talk about these issues. 

At St Peter's Catholic Primary School we are always striving to be the best we can be and this does not stop with the children. As a school we want to ensure that the curriculum and opportunities we provide are relevant and dynamic. 

Policy Statement on Safer Recruitment

St Peter's Catholic Primary School is committed to the safeguarding and protection of all children, young people and adults within our school community. We will carefully select, train and support all those with any responsibility within the School, in line with Safer Recruitment principles of the KSCB (Kent Safeguarding Children Board).

This means that we will:

• Ensure that our recruitment and selection processes are inclusive, fair, consistent and transparent.

• Take all reasonable steps to prevent those who might harm children who may be vulnerable, from taking up in our school, positions of respect, responsibility or authority where they are trusted by others.

• Adhere to safer recruitment legislation, guidance and standards, responding positively to changing understandings of good safer recruitment practice.

• Always seek advice from human resources personnel to achieve best possible practice.

• Ensure training on safer recruitment practice guidance is maintained and relevant to current legislation and guidelines

• Ensure our systems for monitoring adherence to safer recruitment practice are reviewed on a termly basis and documented as such, at an annual FGB.

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