Safeguarding
Safeguarding Children
The Corsham School fully recognises its responsibilities for Safeguarding and Child Protection. Our policies and procedures aim to ensure that all our pupils are safe and protected from harm, and we work closely with all relevant outside agencies as safeguarding issues arise.
Safeguarding children is everyone’s responsibility and we encourage all adults, both within our school and beyond, to report anything which may be of concern.
The Safeguarding Team:
| Designated Safeguarding Lead: | Chris Smith (Deputy Headteacher) CSmith@corsham.wilts.sch.uk |
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| Deputy Safeguarding Leads: |
Lydia Smith (Inclusion and Support) Justin Derby (SENCo) Laura Oldfield (Pastoral Manager) Sue Wort ( Parent Support Adviser) Sue Geoghegan (Transition Coordinator) Theresa Cooper (Alternative Provision and pastoral Support) Matt Kingscote (Director of Corsham 6th) |
| Safeguarding Team admin assistant: | Alice Brand |
| Link Governor for safeguarding: | Claire Snook-Lumb |
The NSPCC website is an excellent source of help and advice on all aspects of Child Protection - both for parents and professionals
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-is-child-abuse/
There is no place for extremist views of any kind in our school, whether from internal sources- pupils, staff, visiting adults, governors or external sources- school community, external agencies or individuals.
Any prejudice, discrimination or extremist views, including derogatory language, displayed by pupils, staff, visitors or parents will always be challenged and, where appropriate, dealt with. Where misconduct by a teacher is proven, the matter will be referred to the National College for Teaching and Leadership for their consideration. Misconduct by other staff will be dealt with under normal school disciplinary procedures.
We encourage pupils to respect the fundamental British values of: democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. We ensure that partisan political views are not promoted in the teaching of any subjects in the school and where political issues are brought to the attention of the pupils, reasonably practicable steps are taken to offer a balanced presentation of opposing views to the pupils.