Safeguarding

Our Safeguarding Team brings a wealth of experience to the school. Our Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) is supported by a dedicated Team, including a Safeguarding Adviser who has worked on Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB) subgroup for Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), and the LSCB County Lines and Exploitation subgroup. She is a Home Office certified trainer in the PREVENT Strategy, has lectured in Child Protection at Bath Spa University and acted as Vice Chair of the Bath Area Panel, which meets monthly to discuss the needs of the Authority’s must vulnerable students.

The Safeguarding Team is trained beyond the statutory guidance found in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2019 and the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, 2015.

Whole school training is given to all staff annually. This may be the statutory training or training in current ‘trends’ in safeguarding. All new staff have induction training in safeguarding and the Single Central Record (SCR) is updated to reflect this. We believe that the whole school community has a responsibility for ensuring that all members of our community are aware of issues around safeguarding and how to keep themselves safe. We support this ethos through the curriculum in PSHE, Tutorials and by example in all subjects. Our Assembly Programme further supports our ethos.

“Safeguarding at Hayesfield is outstanding” Ofsted

School Policies are robust and applied by all members of our community. They are readily accessible to all members of our community via the Policies section of this website.
  Our approach to safeguarding is pro-active. We have introduced a Wellbeing Programme, which offers all of our students access to information on positive wellbeing as well as a tiered offer of support throughout the school. We encourage resilience through the use of Growth Mindset techniques and we were part of Oxford University’s training programme on Mindfulness, which is now delivered to our students. We support National Campaigns against Bullying and for E-Safety. We have a team of police trained student E-Safety Gurus, another team of Student Mentors trained by Mentoring Plus and we have a third team of Anti-Bullying Ambassadors trained by the Diana Award. We have been part of a joint project between the University of Bath and The Motivation Project Dance Company, led by Dr Emma Rich of the University’s Department for Health, aimed at promoting body confidence with students. This was followed by a second research project on Digital Health Technologies also headed by Doctor Rich. Our staff have undergone a period of training from Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) professionals on issues including coping with bereavement, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and wellbeing. We work closely with a range of agencies including Social Care, CAMHS, the Willow Project (for those in danger of CSE), Project 28 (to help combat drug and alcohol abuse), Bath Area Play Project, the School Nursing Service and Mentoring Plus. Our students are further supported ‘in-house’ by a Youth Worker working with students referred to her in Year 7 to 9 and by a Relate counsellor for students referred to her in Year 10, 11, 12 and 13. We have a certified THRIVE Practitioner on our Pastoral Team and are also able to offer Solution Focussed Practise. Thus the safeguarding and wellbeing of our students, and the rest of our school community, is embedded in our ethos. Our “students feel safe, happy and enjoy coming to school.” (Ofsted) For more information about safeguarding please visit the Bath and North East Somerset safeguarding website. Please also peruse our Wellbeing and Positive Mental Health Offer [PDF]
 
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