Safeguarding

The Lantern Community Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding at The Lantern covers many areas. Altogether, these create a safe and nurturing environment where everyone can grow to be their best. Safeguarding ranges from adhering to guidelines and policies, through Health and Safety, to supporting everyone’s mental health. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility, be they pupil, staff, governance or community.  

If you have any urgent safeguarding concerns, call the school office on 01353 664174 Monday to Friday during term time.

The Designated Safeguarding Lead for Child Protection is Chris Axten-Higgs.

The following members of staff are Designated Persons for Child Protection: Joanne Clarke, Thomas Ritson, Susan Greydanus and Tamzyn O’Keefe.

Annex C of Keeping Children Safe in Education explains the roles and responsibilities of those who lead Safeguarding:

Staff are trained to be alert to signs of abuse and neglect and will follow the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Children Partnership Board’s procedures to ensure that children receive appropriate and effective support and protection.

Parents/carers should know that the law requires all school staff to pass on information which gives rise to a concern about a child’s welfare, including risk from neglect, physical, emotional or sexual abuse. Parents/carers should know that records of safeguarding concerns may be kept about their child.  They should be informed that school staff will seek, in general, to discuss any concerns with them including referrals to other agencies. The following statement expands on this.

Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy can be read here:

If you would like further information to that below, there is a link to the NSPCC site that has a wealth of advice for parents on keeping children safe. 

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/

Prevent Duty

On 1 July 2015 the Prevent duty (section 26) of The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 came into force. This duty places the responsibility on local authorities and schools to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.

The Lantern Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its pupils. As a school we recognise that safeguarding against radicalisation is as important as safeguarding against any other vulnerability.

All staff are expected to uphold and promote the fundamental principles of British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect, and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. We believe that children should be given the opportunity to explore diversity and understand Britain as a multi-cultural society; everyone should be treated with respect whatever their race, gender, sexuality, religious belief, special need, or disability.

As part of our commitment to safeguarding and child protection we fully support the government’s Prevent Strategy. 

Our Prevent Action Plan is available here:

Operation Encompass

At the Lantern School, we are working in partnership with Cambridgeshire Police and Cambridgeshire County Council, to identify and provide appropriate support to pupils who have experienced domestic abuse in their home; this scheme is called Operation Encompass. In order to achieve this, Cambridgeshire’s Education Safeguarding Team will share police information of all domestic incidents, where one of our pupils has been present, with the Designated Safeguarding Lead(s) (DSL)/Domestic Abuse (DA)Lead. On receipt of any information, the DSL/DA Lead will decide on the appropriate support the child may require. The Operation Encompass information is stored in line with all other confidential safeguarding and child protection information. All information sharing and resulting actions will be undertaken in accordance with the ‘Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Joint Agency Protocol for Domestic Abuse – Notifications to Schools, Colleges, and Early Years Settings’. https://www.operationencompass.org/

Report Remove

https://www.childline.org.uk/info-advice/bullying-abuse-safety/online-mobile-safety/report-remove

Report Remove is here to help young people under 18 in the UK to confidentially report sexual images and videos of themselves and remove them from the internet.

It’s against the law for anyone to share a sexual image or video of someone who’s under 18, and we’re working with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and Yoti to help you remove any sexual image or video of you that’s online. 

Report Remove is safe, easy and free