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Safeguarding and Wellbeing

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as:

Providing help and support to meet the needs children as soon as problems emerge;
Protecting children from maltreatment within or outside the home, including online;
Preventing impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development;
Ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and
Taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.

All the staff at North Chadderton School are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff, volunteers and members of the school community to share this commitment. We ensure that effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support children, families and staff at our school.

All concerns are passed to the members of staff who are trained as Designated Safeguarding Officers. We aim to:

Provide a safe environment for children to learn.
Identify children who are suffering or likely to suffer harm.
Take appropriate action where appropriate with the aim of making sure that our students are kept safe both at school and at home.

To achieve this objective, we:

Aim to prevent unsuitable people from working at our school.
Promote safe practice and challenge any unsafe practice.
Identify instances where there are grounds for concern about a child’s welfare and initiate or take appropriate action to keep them safe.
Contribute to effective partnership working between all those involved in providing services for our children.
Ensure that concerns about our students are discussed with their parents/carers unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the students’ welfare;
Ensure that safeguarding and child protection is everyone's responsibility.

If you have any questions or concerns or want to report anything that you believe to be a safeguarding matter relating to pupils or our site at North Chadderton please contact Nikola Westhead, the Designated Safeguarding Lead, Mrs Claire Purkhardt, the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead, any member of the safeguarding team.

Safeguarding and Mental Health Newsletter

Safeguarding Curriculum

At North Chadderton school, safeguarding and wellbeing are at th heart of everything we do.

All students take part in a safeguarding focussed assembly every half term designed to provide age-appropriate guidance, raise awareness of key issues, and offer support relevant to their year group.

Our Personal Development Programme (PDP) is regularly reviewed to ensure it meets statutory requirements and remains responsive to local, national and global issues that may affect our students. https://www.northchaddertonschool.co.uk/Curriculum/Personal-Development-Programme-PDP/

Each week, students also participate in a Wellbeing Wednesday session during form time. These sessions focus on developing physical and mental wellbeing, resilience and, healthy lifestyle habits.

Curriculum maps outlining the topics covered are available below.

Inter-agency Working

North Chadderton school is committed to working with other agencies to ensure the safety and welfare of our students. We work with a wide range of agencies such as Oldham's Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), QEST, TOG Minds, police, Keeping Girls Safe in Education (KOGS), positive steps and we work with a school based mental health practitioner.

We will share information with agencies to protect our students following the guidance provided by the Data Protection Act.
We engage and support parents through early help processes, including the signposting to local support providers, parental engagement work and advice around supporting their child’s mental health.