Child Protection and Safeguarding
What is safeguarding?
Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm.
Safeguarding means:
- protecting children from abuse and maltreatment
- preventing harm to children’s health or development
- ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care
- taking action to enable all children and young people to have the best outcomes.
Child protection is part of the safeguarding process. It focuses on protecting individual children identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. This includes child protection procedures which detail how to respond to concerns about a child.
Most recent Ofsted report
The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.
Leaders have strong systems in place to identify and communicate any safeguarding concerns effectively. This includes carrying out appropriate checks to ensure the suitability of staff. Leaders ensure that staff are well trained. This helps leaders to act swiftly to secure the right help for any pupils at risk. Leaders work well with a range of outside agencies when it is needed to help protect pupils. Leaders have a good awareness of how to adapt the curriculum accordingly so that pupils learn how to keep themselves safe both in and out of school. They provide parents with helpful safeguarding information.
Ofsted Report July 2023
Safeguarding staff
Designated Safeguarding Lead for child protection and looked after children - Margaret Gibbs - margaretgibbs@goldstone.brighton-hove.sch.uk
Deputy designated lead - Anne Gibbs - annegibbs@goldstone.brighton-hove.sch.uk
Deputy designated lead - Iain Henderson - Iainhenderson@goldstone.brighton-hove.sch.uk
Act Early
A new national safeguarding website www.actearly.uk has been launched to help the public share concerns about a friend or a loved one who might be vulnerable to radicalisation.
Policies
To view our Child Protection Policy, please click see our policies page here.
