Safeguarding and the Welfare of Children – A Priority for Everyone within the School Community:

• Senior Designated Safeguarding Lead – Mrs R Joyce
• Designated Safeguarding Leads – Mrs J Reeves, Mrs Hamilton and Miss S Parkin

These staff can be contacted via the school office.

Children should be safe and secure both at home and school. Mornington maintains a child protection policy and follows all the local & national guidance relating to safeguarding children. The child protection officer for the school is the Headteacher.

All staff, have taken training in the signs of child abuse and in the procedures that should be followed in cases of abuse. It is the Headteacher’s duty to refer suspicions of abuse to Social Services and she will then work with them, and other professionals, to achieve the safety of the child(ren) concerned.

The School Policy for Safeguarding is updated in line with Local Authority Guidance and Regulations on an annual basis and approved by the School Trust & Governing Body.

• All staff receive regular training around safeguarding from the local authority.
• Designated persons receive updates to training every 2 years.
• An Annual Safeguarding Audit is carried out by the Governors.

Contact During the School Holidays

If you have a safeguarding concern about a child during school holidays, please email: head@morningtonprimary.org This account is monitored regularly on weekdays during school holidays.

If you have concerns about a child’s immediate safety, please contact the police on 999 if it is an emergency or 101 for non-emergencies. Safeguarding concerns can also be reported anonymously. The link can be found here

Further information from the Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Partnership can be found here.

Our Parent Code of Conduct can be found on the Policies Page.

Prevent Strategy 

 What is the Prevent strategy 

Prevent is a Government strategy designed to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorist or extremist causes. 

The Prevent strategy covers all types of terrorism and extremism. 

 How does the Prevent strategy apply to schools? 

From July 2015, all schools (as well as other organisations) have a duty to safeguard children from radicalisation and extremism. 

This means we have a responsibility to protect children from extremist and violent views the same way we protect them from any other harm. 

 What we do if there is a concern 

If we have a concern about a particular pupil we will follow the school’s normal safeguarding procedures, including discussing with the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead and Prevent Lead, Mrs Rebecca Joyce.