Safeguarding

We believe that:
• All children have the right to be protected from harm;
• Children need to be safe and to feel safe in school;
• All children have the right to speak freely and voice their values and beliefs;
• All children must be encouraged to respect each other’s values and support each other;
• All children have the right to be supported to meet their emotional, and social needs as well as their educational needs – a happy healthy sociable child will achieve better educationally;
• Schools can and do contribute to the prevention of abuse, victimisation, bullying, exploitation, radicalisation, extreme behaviours, discriminatory views and risk taking behaviours; and
• All staff and visitors have an important role to play in safeguarding children and protecting them from abuse.
Safeguarding is defined as
• Protecting children from maltreatment;
• Preventing impairment of children's health or development;
• Ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and
• Taking action to enable all children to have the best life chances.
Wembley Primary school will fulfil their local and national responsibilities as laid out in the following documents:
• CEOP
• Childline Website
• Keeping Children Safe in Education: Statutory guidance for schools and colleges 
• Mental Health and Behaviour in Schools: Departmental Advice (DfE Nov 2018)
• The Children Act 2004
• The Education Act 2002 s175 / s157
• The Procedures of Brent Safeguarding Children Board
• Working together to safeguard children 

Operation Encompass
This operation is a national partnership between all schools, families and the Police.The intention is that all parties will be informed immediately of any reported domestic abuse.The reason for this relates directly to the impact that domestic abuse has upon the success of young people in education. Children can be victims of domestic abuse when they are directly targeted for violence/abuse or if they are accidentally assaulted in an incident with others.
Children can also be seriously affected by witnessing domestic abuse.If the Police are made aware of an incident of domestic abuse, they will notify the school by 11am of the following morning. The school will then decide the appropriate support that is required for the student. The information will only be shared with the appropriate members of staff.

In the absence of the DSL and Deputy DSL, other members of SLT with Level 3 Safeguarding training are: Karen Kennedy-Medford, Dipti Pindoria & Sharon Griffith