Our Academy

Safeguarding

Healing Primary Academy is committed to its moral and statutory responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of our children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are alert to signs of abuse and neglect, and we follow our procedures and policies to ensure that our children receive effective support and protection.

We keep children safe by:

  • Having an up to date Safeguarding and Child Protection policy.
  • Having two identified members of staff, and one identified Governor, who have responsibility for safeguarding, as well as having a Level 2 Safeguarding trained Behaviour, Attendance and Support Lead.
  • Completing the safer recruitment and checking procedures necessary to ensure all staff have the suitability to work with children and young people.
  • Having an open-door policy where concerns can be shared in confidence.
  • Having a safeguarding culture that is embedded through ongoing CPD ensuring all our staff have up to date safeguarding and child protection training.
  • Sharing information with appropriate agencies if we have concerns. We will ensure that our concerns about our pupils are discussed with parents and carers first, unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child’s welfare.
  • We actively support the Government’s Prevent Agenda to counter radicalism and extremism.

Our Safeguarding Team

All staff have a responsibility to safeguard our pupils however the main point of contacts at the school are:

  • Mrs Kate Williams
    Designated Safeguarding Lead
    Behaviour, Attendance and Wellbeing Support Lead
  • Mrs Claire Knight
    Principal and Designated Safeguarding Lead
  • Mrs Anna Wood
    Vice Principal and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
  • Ms Josie Waller
    Safeguarding Link Governor

Should you have any safeguarding concerns about your own child, or any of our children at Healing Primary Academy, please make contact with the school or other appropriate agency details of which can be found below:

Healing Primary Academy Safeguarding Contacts:

Local Authority Safeguarding Contacts:

  • Contact the police on 101, or 999 in an emergency

You should report any concerns, however small they may seem, as soon as you possibly can.

Everyone has a responsibility to keep children safe from harm.

Safeguarding support for children, families and young people

The North East Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership has a wealth of information on their website to support families. For example: Private Fostering, Parenting Advice, Wellbeing Support, Young Carers, Online Safety and Family Relationships, plus many more helpful topics. 

https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/scp/scp-children-and-families/

Sources of Support and Information

Child protection – national

Bullying – national

Mental health – national

Parents’ support – national

Sexual harm and sexually harmful behaviour – national

Useful websites:

Online Safety

There are a range of potential harms that come with using the internet. Categories include:

  • Content
    Being exposed to illegal, inappropriate, or harmful content.
  • Contact
    Being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users.
  • Conduct
    Online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm.
  • Commerce
    Risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and financial scams.

As part of our teaching of online safety in school, children are taught:

  • that people sometimes behave differently online, including by pretending to be someone they are not
  • that the same principles apply to online relationships as to face-to-face relationships, including the importance of respect for others
  • the rules and principles for keeping safe online: how to recognise risks, harmful content and contact, and how to report them
  • how to critically consider their online friendships and sources of information
  • how information and data is shared and used online

There are well-publicised concerns regarding access to material on the internet that would be unsuitable for pupils. Whilst it is impossible to ensure that pupils will not access such material, the Academy is taking all reasonable steps to minimise a pupil’s access to unsuitable material. These include.

  • Use of a filtered Internet Service to prevent access to internet sites with undesirable material (Lightspeed and Smoothwall)
  • The requirement that all Internet access during school hours will be supervised by a member of staff or another responsible adult
  • As an essential part of the curriculum, all children are taught about online safety, across the year and when topics become prevalent.

Healing Primary Academy are proud to say that all our pupils have received training from Tim Pinto, from the E Safety Office Ltd, about how to stay safe online.

Please see the links to further Online Safety information and our Pupil’s Acceptable Use Agreement, which can be found at the bottom of this webpage.

Online Reporting

If you see something online that you know is harmful or makes you feel uncomfortable, reporting it is always the best option. When you make a report, you are essentially escalating it for review. This process essentially determines whether something should remain online or not with reference to the law or specific standards and guidelines associated with online platforms.

Follow this link to find out how to report harmful content: https://swgfl.org.uk/topics/reporting/ 

Operation Encompass

Healing Primary Academy is part of a project run by Humberside Police called Operation Encompass. The project aims to support children who are affected by Domestic Abuse.

As a result, following any domestic abuse incident, the police will contact the school and communicate relevant and necessary information to the DSL and DDSL. This will ensure that the school is made aware (usually before the start of the next school day) and can subsequently provide support in a way that means the child feels safe.

To find out more information please visit the site below:

https://www.operationencompass.org/

We are proud to be a Foster Friendly School!

Please visit the website below for more information about Fostering, and how you could help. 

https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/health-wellbeing-and-social-care/childrens-social-care/interested-in-fostering/ 

Photography and Video

Whilst lots of parents and carers really enjoy seeing photos and videos of their children’s school life, we are very mindful of our duty of care towards all our pupils. We take the issue of safeguarding very seriously and this includes the use of photographic and video images.

Any photographs or videos taken by parents, carers and relatives at school productions, sports days or other events are for the enjoyment of individual families. They must not be used in any way that could potentially place a child at risk. This would include publishing images in any form of print, or on the internet, including social networking sites. This is emphasised before concerts and shows etc.

We understand that, in exceptional circumstances, a parent or carer may not wish their child to be photographed or videoed in this way. If this is the case then please contact the Head of School to discuss how this can be best achieved before events take place.

Occasionally, the local press will be invited to take photographs of school events and special achievements. We like to use photographs of our children on our website, Class Dojo, school Twitter feed, in school documents, for parent information meetings, newsletters and on our display boards around the school. Permission to share images of your child in this way will be sought on entry to the school, via the contact form issued. You are within your rights to withdraw your consent for any of these, at any time.

 

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