Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.

Trust safeguarding vision:

Safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do for all members of our Trust community. Fostering a secure environment that empowers and protects, ensuring positive outcomes and wellbeing for everyone, irrespective of their needs or their background.

Our Designated Safeguarding Lead is Jenny Fox.

Our Safeguarding policy is available on the policies page. 

Please read:

It is important that you and your child are aware of the following information regarding Water Safety. Please read and be mindful throughout the year.

We are an Operation Encompass School. This means we are part of a police and education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people who experience Domestic Abuse. For further information, please view the document below:

You can also find other useful information and contact numbers on the following website: Kirklees Safeguarding Children

Please also watch this important video on Safeguarding here - it is 'everyone's business'.  

There are also a wide range of resources available for parents/carers, included in the links below:

Children’s Services Duty and Advice Team - 01484 456848 

This is the team based in Children’s Social Care where all Child Protection concerns should be referred. Duty and Advice is a multi-agency team with workers from the Police, Education, Health and Housing as well as Children’s Social Workers.

For any other information please visit the Kirklees Duty and Advice webpage.

Other useful safeguarding and wellbeing links: 

CEOP

DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education
Kirklees Safeguarding Children
NSPCC
Childline
Barnados
Brook Sexual Health and Wellbeing
Kooth
Headspace
CalmHarm
Papyrus
Family Lives
Anna Freud
Thriving Kirklees

Choose Well for Mental Health  

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust have created a guide to help children and young people ‘choose well for mental health’. Aimed at people in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield, the guide will:   

• Support people in looking after their mental health and wellbeing 
• Inform people about how to access the right support when they need it  
• Help people know what to do if they, or someone they know, experience a mental health crisis or emergency. 

Parents, carers, families and friends can also use the ‘choose well for mental health’ guide to look out for children and young people close to them and help them get the right support and advice.  

The guide has been co-created with children and young people with lived experience, and specialist healthcare teams who work with them, carers and their families.