Safeguarding
Keeping children safe in education is our priority.
At Eccleston Lane Ends Primary School, the health, safety and welfare of our children are of paramount importance to us. We respect our pupils and want to provide them with a stimulating and safe environment that encourages them to flourish.
In order to keep our children safe at school, we
ensure that all our staff – through their induction and on going training - have a clear understanding of their responsibilities towards our children’s safeguarding
make sure that we have a range of clear and up to date policies and procedures in place to ensure the safety and protection of our pupils in all aspects of school life
ensure that we teach our pupils how to keep themselves healthy and safe – in and out of school
ensure that we audit our safeguarding practices regularly so we remain vigilant.
What does it all mean?
Sometimes, we may speak to you about some of our safeguarding procedures and processes. We want you to be comfortable and understand how we use safeguarding procedures in school and how we share information with other agencies. If you have any questions about this, please see a member of the Safeguarding Team.
Mrs L Garford - Pastoral Lead
DDSL
Young Carers Champion
Miss S Bond - Headteacher
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Young Carers Champion
Mr N Loftus - Deputy Headteacher
DDSL
Mrs T Leather
Safeguarding Governor
Values
At ELE, our safeguarding offer starts with our whole school values which we instil in our children from their first day at Eccleston Lane Ends Primary. Values such as Respect, Inclusion, Honesty and Kindness teach children to be ready, respectful and safe. We have an open, honest and relationship centred approach at school, wherein children are nurtured and taught that they are able to confide in any adult if they are worried about anything.
Behaviour
We have very clear expectations of our children’s behaviour and these are regularly discussed in class and whole school assemblies. Our children learn from an early age that bullying in any form is not tolerated at Eccleston Lane Ends Primary and we expect our staff to act as exemplary role models.
Mental Health and Wellbeing
As one of the key parts in our BRICKS curriculum, we take promoting and supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing as a vital part of our safeguarding offer. We have a Mental Health Lead and Health and Wellbeing Champions in school who help to ensure that all members of the school community are well supported. See our Mental Health and Wellbeing page for more information.
Teaching and Learning
Our RE and ELE Essence lessons include education on financial awareness, healthy diet, the importance of exercise, road and pedestrian safety, stranger danger, how to deal with bullying and much more (see the ELE Essence page for class overviews). Our ELE Essence Curriculum (which meets all of the statutory elements within the RHE curriculum) includes a progressive, whole school approach for Relationship, Health and Sex education.
From EYFS, our children are taught about the importance of staying safe online. At Eccleston Lane Ends Primary we have very clear online safety guidelines for both staff and children and everyone signs an Acceptable Use Agreement before they use a computer. As this is a constantly changing world, we try to provide children and parents with as much up to date information as we can about practical ways to stay safe on the internet and online safety teaching is incorporated regularly into both our Computing and ELE Essence offer.
Our Staff
As already mentioned, our staff are expected to act as role models at all times. All members of staff – teaching and non teaching alike – have been recruited following safer recruitment procedures. Their application forms are carefully scrutinised and any education or employment gaps are queried. References and all necessary DBS checks are undertaken as a matter of course and we keep an up to date single central record on our employees.
When a new member of staff (or Governor) joins our school they receive an induction and staff handbook which includes up to date information on safeguarding, child protection and our health and safety induction booklet. We also ensure that they have read part one of the Government's guidelines on Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024, which you can find out more about here. Our safeguarding and child protection policy clearly sets out the school and our staff’s responsibilities towards ensuring that all children at Eccleston Lane Ends are kept safe and protected from harm. All our staff and governors undertake regular safeguarding and child protection training.
First Aid and Medical Needs
In addition to safeguarding and child protection training, a number of our teaching assistants, ASC and Breakfast club staff and lunchtime supervisors have first aid and paediatric first aid qualifications.
Inclusion and Equality
The school has a commitment to equality and accessibility for all and we believe that everyone at Eccleston Lane Ends Primary should be treated with care, dignity and respect. Our children are explicitly taught that any form of discrimination on grounds of race, religion, sexuality or disability is wrong. In Eccleston Lane Ends, RE lessons and worship, we explore different ideas, cultures, faiths and beliefs to broaden our pupil’s awareness of the world and we teach tolerance and mutual respect.
Volunteers and Visitors
We also make sure that any volunteer or visitor to school – which includes staff who may be running after school clubs – visits the School Office to sign in and read the school information sheets on Safeguarding and Health and Safety. Volunteers and visitors are not left unsupervised with children at any time unless they are regular volunteers who have completed a DBS check. As a parent, if you would like to know more about volunteering, please come into the School Office or email school.
Site Safety
Ensuring that the school site is safe and risk assessed is the responsibility of our School Business Manager. We have a comprehensive Health and Safety policy to ensure that our premises are safe for all. This includes undertaking risk assessments for all school activities and trips, as well as for aspects of the site.
