St. John’s C of E Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in our care and to have effective safeguarding procedures in place to support families, children and staff at our school. It is our aim that children and adults always have someone they are able to talk to if they have any worries or concerns. Our core safeguarding principles are:
Our Child Protection policy can be read here and our child friendly version here. The policy is reviewed regularly and updated in line with changes to the Department of Education document, Keeping Children Safe in Education.
The policy is one of a series in the school integrated safeguarding portfolio and should be read in conjunction with the policies as listed below and can be found on our policies page:
Our School Designated Safeguarding Leads are Mr Niall Dosad – Headteacher, Mr Tom Angus – Deputy Headteacher, Miss Jenny Stiff – Deputy Headteacher, Mr Dan Selby - Deputy Headteacher and Mr Jack Hyett - Assistant Headteacher.
Safeguarding Training Attended
DSL training
Female Genital Mutilation Recognising & Prevention v1.3
Prevent e-learning
Online Safety (E safety for DSL)
Safer Recruitment
If you have any concerns about the well-being or safety of any of our pupils, or you are a St. John’s parent and require support yourself, please contact one of the designated Safeguarding Leads using the email address:
safeguarding@st-johns.kent.sch.uk
Other people who can help with worries are:
For adults: Mrs Audra Maskell – Attendance Officer a.maskell@st-johns.kent.sch.uk
For children: Miss Becca Owens – School Counsellor b.owens@st-johns.kent.sch.uk
If you are concerned about a child in Kent, please call Kent Safeguarding Children Multi-Agency Partnership on 03000 411111 (Out of hours 03000 419191). You can find out more about the partnership on their website:
Home - Kent Safeguarding Children Multi-Agency Partnership (kscmp.org.uk)
Other helpful websites:
Online Safety
At St. John’s we believe that online safety is an essential part of safeguarding, please click here for further information.