Safeguarding

The person in Carr Hill who is responsible for keeping you safe is Mr Harris, our Headteacher (Mr Harris is the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead). If you have any concerns or worries about your friends, your child or another child then please talk to Mr Harris.

Mrs Chandler, our Deputy Headteacher, and Miss Curry, our Family Support Worker, help Mr Harris to keep our children and families safe (Mrs Chandler is the school’s Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and she is supported by Stephanie Curry who has also completed Designated Safeguarding Lead training).

This academic year we are involved in Gateshead’s Team Around the School (TAS).

Ashley Dodds is supporting us from Gateshead and will support in a variety of areas and you can find more about this support here.

Local safeguarding arrangements are led by the three named statutory safeguarding partners; local authorities, chief officers of police, and clinical commissioning groups (health).

The three safeguarding partners have now assumed the responsibilities for safeguarding arrangements that previously sat with LSCBs and now have a shared and equal duty for new safeguarding arrangements and for working together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in Gateshead.

The Safeguarding partners in Gateshead are:

• Gateshead Council
• Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group
• Northumbria Police

Working together to safeguard children requires that as local safeguarding partners the council, the police and the CCG publish arrangements to work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of local children.

Carr Hill Community Primary School works really well with Gateshead’s Children’s Services and Early Assessment Teams.

Paul Harris sits on Gateshead’s Safeguarding Children Partnership and the Education Reference Group for Safeguarding.

Our Governing Body has a duty to ensure that the school meets its statutory responsibilities and that the children attending Carr Hill are safe.

The following Carr Hill Governors make up our safeguarding committee with Mrs Curry and Mr Harris.

• Ms Lindsey Wardle – Chair of Governors
• Mr Tony Nicholson – Vice Chair of Governors

We try to keep you, our children, safe with our technology in school but you must keep yourself safe at home. Please be very careful and listen to the advice we give you when using the internet at home and at school.

Online Safety Policy (including use of mobile phones) update 2022

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If you have any concerns about your safety, or anyone else’s safety online then come and talk to us or report it to the NSPCC or ceop.police.uk

A superb webiste on internet safety and up to date advice on new and current ‘apps’ and ‘web-pages’ is Net Aware! It is a great guide to the social media sites that children use!

If you have concerns about the safety of a child in Gateshead then you should talk to someone immediately. You can contact Children’s Social Care on 0191 433 2653 during office hours or 0191 477 0844 during evenings, weekends or bank holidays.

Gateshead’s Safeguarding website is a really useful. You can report concerns about children or adults here. In addition to this you can get additional information on the Gateshead Safeguarding Children Partnership, Early Help, Private fostering etc.

https://www.gatesheadsafeguarding.org.uk

In an emergency you should contact the police on 999. For non-emergencies you can contact Northumbria Police on 101.

You can also report concerns to the NSPCC by text message on 88858. This service is free and anonymous. The NSPCC aim to respond within three hours.

Make a Prevent referral

If you believe someone is being drawn into or supporting terrorism call the below numbers and make it clear that you wish to make a Prevent referral.

Your concerns must be based on an individual’s vulnerability to radicalisation and should not be on a person’s religion or ethnic origin.

Children 0191 433 2653

Adults 0191 433 7033

National Terrorism hotline 0800 789 321 and, in an emergency, always dial 999.

For more advice call our Community Safety Team, 0191 433 2701 or email prevent@gateshead.gov.uk

Children Missing Education

All schools and educational providers must notify the Children Missing Coordinator (Legal Intervention Team) if a child has left the Gateshead area and their whereabouts are unknown.

Education providers have a statutory duty that requires them to complete checks before advising the local authority of a missing child.

https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/2794/Children-missing-education-CME provides further information.

The following statutory guidance is for local authorities and advice for other groups on helping children who are missing education get back into it.

Children Missing Education

You can talk to CHILDLINE about anything. No problem is too big or too small.

Call CHILDLINE free on 0800 1111 or get in touch online:

http://www.childline.org.uk/get-support/1-2-1-counsellor-chat/

However you choose to contact CHILDLINE, you’re in control. It’s confidential and you don’t have to give your name if you don’t want to.