Clifford Road Primary School and Nursery is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff, volunteers, governors, parents and children to share this commitment.

All staff appointments are subject to the completion of an Enhanced DBS check.

All staff have regular safeguarding training and they, including volunteers, have all read ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’.  All staff and visitors are made fully aware of the procedures to follow if they are concerned about the wellbeing of a pupil and know who to report those concerns to.

Our Safeguarding Team

We have a team of 5 staff who have all accessed Designated Safeguarding Lead Training and regular updates. This is our DSL Team.

If you have any concerns relating to the safeguarding of the children or adults in school then please contact our Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) Mrs. Helen Thorpe, via the school office.

Mrs. Helen Thorpe               Designated Safeguarding Lead (Deputy Head Teacher)

Mr. Cieran Dadds                 Alternate Designated Safeguarding Lead (Head Teacher)

Mrs. Claire Ruiz                   Alternate Designated Safeguarding Lead (Phase 2 Leader & Teacher)

Miss Vincia Whitehouse        Alternate Designated Safeguarding Lead (Assistant Deputy Head)

Ms. Helen Wright                 Alternate Designated Safeguarding Lead (Phase 3 Leader & Teacher)

Our link safeguarding governor is Mr. Francis Howard, who can be contacted via the school office.

If you have a safeguarding concern and would like to talk to a member of the Safeguarding Team, please contact the school office:

office@cliffordroad.suffolk.sch.uk

01473 251605

Prevent Duty

As part of Clifford Road Primary School and Nursery's commitment to safeguarding and child protection we fully support the Government's Prevent Strategy, and take guidance from Teaching Approaches to help build resilience to extremism.

The Prevent strategy is a Government Strategy designed to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. It:

• responds to the ideological challenge we face from terrorism and aspects of extremism, and the threat we face from those who promote these views
• provides practical help to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and ensure they are given appropriate advice and support
• works with a wide range of sectors (including education, criminal justice, faith, charities, online and health).

At Clifford Road Primary School and Nursery we ensure that we teach the children about the Prevent Aims. This is done through high quality PSHE activities and through frank and open discussions with pupils. In each year group we teach our children to be safe and to recognise the possible dangers they may face. Teachers make sure that this is done in a sensitive and age appropriate way.

Our designated Prevent Strategy lead is: Mrs. Helen Thorpe (Deputy Headteacher.) All staff have been trained to recognise signs of Extremism.

Please click below to access the official government document or to find out about how parents and carers can help support young people.

Prevent Duty government document

Information for parents