Wombwell Park Street Primary
  • Home
    • A Welcome From The Head
    • Headteacher's Blog
    • School's Ethos >
      • School Aims
      • School Policies
      • Vision Statement
      • Behaviour
      • Suspension Arrangements
      • Equality
    • ECM Trust >
      • Corporate Information
    • Who's Who?
    • Governors
    • Barnsley Community
    • Safeguarding At Park Street >
      • Operation Encompass
    • GDPR
    • Job Vacancies
    • Contact
    • ECM Trust SharePoint Portal
    • Train to Teach
  • OUR CURRICULUM
    • Incredible Me!
    • Special Educational Needs & Disability School Offer
    • Curriculum Outline and Rationale
    • Curriculum Leaders
    • Statutory Assessments
    • Core Subjects >
      • Reading >
        • Reading Blog
      • Writing >
        • Writing Blog
      • Maths >
        • Maths Blog
      • Computing >
        • Computing Blog
      • Science >
        • Science Blog
        • Spectacular Science
      • Community Cohesion >
        • Community Cohesion Blog
    • Foundation Subjects >
      • Art >
        • Art Blog
      • D&T >
        • DT Blog
      • Geography >
        • Geography Blog
      • History >
        • History Blog
      • Modern Foreign Languages >
        • MFL Blog
      • Music >
        • Music Blog
      • PE >
        • PE Blog
      • PSHE and One Life >
        • PSHE and One Life Blog
      • RE >
        • RE Blog
    • Oracy
    • Online Safety >
      • Online Safety Blog
      • Digital Parenting
    • Mrs Fitchett's Art Blog
    • Mr Smith's Sporting Information
    • British Values
    • SMSC at Park Street
    • Personal Learning And Thinking Skills
  • Team Groups
    • Nursery - Team CM >
      • Team CM Blog 2024/25
      • Team CM Blog 2023-24
      • Team CM Blog 2022-23
    • Reception - Team CW >
      • Team CW Blog 2024/25
      • Team CW Blog 2023-24
      • Team CW Blog 2022-23
    • Reception/Year 1 - Team EO >
      • Team EO Blog 2024/25
      • Team EO Blog 2023-24
      • Team EO Blog 2022-23
    • Year 1 - Team AC >
      • Team AC Blog 2024/25
      • Team CH Blog 2023-24
      • Team CH Blog 2022-23
    • Year 2 - Team JF >
      • Team JF Blog 2024/25
      • Team JF Blog 2023-24
      • Team JF Blog 2022-23
    • Year 2/3 - Team CH >
      • Team CH Blog 2024/25
      • Team AC Blog 2023-24
      • Team AC Blog 2022-23
    • Year 3 - Team CB >
      • Team CB Blog 2024/25
      • Team SG Blog 2023-24
      • Team CB Blog 2022-23
    • Year 4 - Team LF >
      • Team LF Blog 2024/25
      • Team JD Blog 2023-24
      • Team JD Blog 2022-23
    • Year 4/5 - Team JD >
      • Team JD Blog 2024/25
      • Team LF Blog 2023-24
      • Team LF Blog 2022-23
    • Year 5 - Team DB >
      • Team DB Blog 2024/25
      • Team DB Blog 2023-24
      • Team DB Blog 2022-23
    • Year 6 - Team AF >
      • Team AF Blog 2024/25
      • Team AF Blog 2023-24
      • Team AF Blog 2022-23
    • Year 6 - Team LL >
      • Team LL Blog 2024/25
      • Team LL Blog 2023-24
      • Team LL Blog 2022-23
  • Parents
    • Admissions >
      • New To Park Street Primary School? >
        • New to Park Street
        • New Starters - Nursery
        • New Starters - Reception
      • Nursery Admission Arrangements
      • Primary School Admission Arrangements
    • Complaints Procedure
    • Coronavirus >
      • Remote Learning
    • Information for Parents >
      • Attendance
      • Before & After School Provisions plus After School Extra Curricular Activities
      • Drop Off / Pickup Times
      • Healthy Schools
      • School Dinner Menu
      • School Times
      • School Uniform
      • Snow and bad weather
    • Letters and leaflets
    • Newsletters
    • Parent Support Advisor
    • Transition >
      • Transition to Secondary Education
      • Reception - Team CW
      • Reception/Year 1 - Team EO
      • Year 1 - Team AC
      • Year 2 - Team JF
      • Year 2/3 - Team CH
      • Year 3 - Team CB
      • Year 4 - Team SG
      • Year 4/5 - Team JD
      • Year 5 - Team DB
      • Year 6 - Team AF
      • Year 6 - Team LL
    • Useful Forms
    • What our parents say about Park Street?
  • Kids Zone
    • Arts Council Blog
    • The Park Street Gallery
    • Eco Rep Blog
    • Junior Reader Leaders
    • Student Council Blog
    • Online Safety
    • Performing Arts >
      • Performing Arts Blog
    • School Trips and Visitors >
      • Robinwood Residential
      • Trips we have been on
      • Visitors in school
    • Special Jobs Around School
    • Special Learning Events
  • Statutory Information
    • Ofsted Reports
    • School Performance Tables
    • Sports Premium
    • Pupil Premium
    • School Policies

Safeguarding at
​Wombwell Park Street Primary School

"The school’s work to keep pupils safe and secure is outstanding. Checks are carried out on all adults to make sure they can work with children. Robust systems and policies to keep children safe are in place. Staff are also trained to make sure they are very clear about their responsibilities in keeping pupils safe. Parents agree that the school staff do everything they can to keep children safe."

​(Ofsted 2014)
Leaders and governors ensure that pupils are safe. Staff receive regular training and this is updated when necessary. This means that all staff understand their responsibilities around pupils’  safety and they know what to do when an issue around safeguarding arises. You keep detailed records of the checks you make on staff, including checks on their identity and qualifications. These meet statutory requirements. These checks are also made on governors and any volunteers who come into school. The school keeps records of any incidents that relate to pupils’  safety and safeguarding. This ensures that the relevant staff understand the context of a child and of any safeguarding issues which relate to them. Such information, alongside the training provided, helps the school work effectively with external agencies.

​(Ofsted June 2018)

Safeguarding at Wombwell Park Street Primary School is a top priority.
There is a shared ethos amongst school Leaders, staff and Governors regarding the importance of keeping our children safe.  All staff acknowledge their responsibility as a member of staff to ensure safeguarding principles, policies and procedures are adhered to, to a very high standard.   Over the past 14 years, we have invested a great deal of time and money to ensure we have robust systems in place and trained staff to ensure optimum care for our children and families.  We have nine staff in school who are trained to the level of Designated Safeguarding Lead standard and these staff work as part of a wider Safeguarding Team to ensure all areas of safeguarding are effectively led eg support for parents, SEN, attendance, training for other staff, to name a few.
​As a staff team we share a commitment to look after each other and hold well being in high regard.  We want to ensure our school's children are happy, healthy and content, both at home and school. We strongly believe this will enable all children to meet their full potential in a caring and safe environment.  In normal times, our school has an open door policy and we would advise any parent with any concerns to approach us in school. Similarly we always encourage our children to be confident enough to speak to members of staff they feel comfortable with.  Our school's PSA. Mrs Carol Hitchens, is a crucial link between our parental community, children, staff and outside agencies.
Safeguarding is effectively led by Leaders in school and parents acknowledge how deeply we care about the children (Ofsted 2023).  The Chair of Governors and Headteacher meet each term to discuss strategic Safeguarding and to ensure systems and processes are as robust as possible.
We have additional measures in school to support children who may be at risk.  These include time with our PSA, Art Therapy with Mrs Lilian Fitchett, 'Books Beyond Words' sessions, 'Incredible Us' sessions and our 'One Life' morning routine and PSHCE curriculum.

The Safeguarding Team consists of the following staff:

Value
Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL) and LAC Officers
​Chloe Lawson (Headteacher) LAC Officer
Louise Longden (Deputy Headteacher)
Deputy Safeguarding Lead
Clare McGinnes (AHT FS/KS1 Lead)
Carol Hitchens (PSA)
DSL trained staff: Attendance
Cathy Turner (School Business Manager)
Elaine Green (Attendance Lead and Business Support)
DSL trained staff: SEND
Adam Fidment (AHT / SENDCo)
DSL trained staff: Trips
Ryan Smith (Sports Coach)
Lilian Fitchett (HLTA)
Governor Responsible for Safeguarding (including LAC and Online Safety)
Elaine Oliver (Chair of Governors)
The following poster is displayed in and around school in all rooms accessed by staff, to ensure all staff know who they can turn to for support regarding safeguarding our children:
safeguarding_poster_september_2024.docx
File Size: 559 kb
File Type: docx
Download File

Agency Involvement:

Staff in school are committed to working with a range of specialist professionals from outside agencies, for the benefit of the children and their families. Some of these include:
  • Early Help Team (EHA Team)
  • Education Welfare Services (EWO) - Mr David Scarth is our school's EWO
  • Social Care (including Disabled Children's Team)
  • School Nursing Team
  • Local Health Visiting Team
  • Family Intervention Services (FIS)
  • Preferred Futures
  • Family Support Workers based at 0-19 Centre
  • MARAC (Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference)
  • IDAS (Independent Domestic Abuse Service)
  • BSCP (Barnsley Safeguarding Children Partnership)
  • COMPASS Be

What can school help families with?

​Safeguarding leads and staff in school have had training and experience in supporting families in relation to:
  • Behaviour management (including domestic abuse / violence)
  • SEND behaviour management through courses such as 'Thinking Differently' which run regularly by Mr A Fidment
  • Drug and alcohol abuse
  • Positive parenting (Webster Stratton)
  • Sleep training
  • Raising Awareness of Prevent / Radicalisation (WRAP)
  • Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
  • Mental health
  • Private fostering
  • Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)
  • Children missing from education (CME)
  • Online Safety
  • Mental Health issues
  • Peer-on-Peer abuse

Training, Systems and Policies in School:

Staff are committed to continually seeking professional development around the areas of safeguarding, so as we can best support our families and children.  The main bulk of the staff team received their latest three yearly training in September 2020 and DSLs receive refresher DSL training every two years (most recently in September 2022).  Volunteers and students experience a thorough induction with safeguarding training from Mrs C Lawson.  This includes information on systems in school which need to be adhered to and also information on current prevalent topics.  These include CSE; WRAP; Child on Child Abuse, online safety, FGM etc.  Every member of staff has read KCSIE 2022 Part One and Annex B,  DSLs have read all of the document.

In school, we use an electronic system for recording matters relating to safeguarding, SEN, Attendance and significant behaviours (of children and parents).  This system is called CPOMs - Safeguarding and Child Protection Software for Schools and ensures our staff team communicate sensitively, efficiently and accurately around important topics.  Staff are proactive in documenting concerns down appropriately and our Safeguarding Team deals with such concerns promptly with children and parents.

As a school, we are not afraid to have the difficult conversations with parents, managed in a sensitive way, as long as it means the children are safe and happy.  This is something our community of parents have complimented the school on before.  We also like to think that the wider community are more than comfortable in reporting concerns to us, should the matter arise.

Our principles, policies and procedures follow those of 'Keeping Children Safe in Education September 2022' and 'Working Together to Safeguard Children'.  Please find these key documents and our Safeguarding Policy below.

Our Safeguarding Policy was last updated in August 2024.

Safeguarding Policy 2024-25

Your browser does not support viewing this document. Click here to download the document.

KCSIE 2024

Your browser does not support viewing this document. Click here to download the document.

KCSIE 2024 Part One

Your browser does not support viewing this document. Click here to download the document.

Working Together to Safeguard Children

Your browser does not support viewing this document. Click here to download the document.

What to do if you are worried about a child

Your browser does not support viewing this document. Click here to download the document.

Location

Picture
Picture

Contact Us

​Mailing address:
Wombwell
 Park Street Primary School,
Park Street,
Barnsley,
S73 0HS

Telephone: 01226 752029
Email: [email protected]

General Enquiries: 
​
Our Admin Team will be happy to assist you with any enquiries and direct you to the relevant staff as necessary.  Our Leadership team will always be happy to help, as will our Parent Support Advisor Mrs Carol Mason.

If you require a paper copy of any of the information found on our website we will be happy to provide you with this free of charge upon request, Please contact a member of our office staff who will be more than willing to help.

ECM Trust: 
http://www.ecmtrust.org/index.html
  • Home
    • A Welcome From The Head
    • Headteacher's Blog
    • School's Ethos >
      • School Aims
      • School Policies
      • Vision Statement
      • Behaviour
      • Suspension Arrangements
      • Equality
    • ECM Trust >
      • Corporate Information
    • Who's Who?
    • Governors
    • Barnsley Community
    • Safeguarding At Park Street >
      • Operation Encompass
    • GDPR
    • Job Vacancies
    • Contact
    • ECM Trust SharePoint Portal
    • Train to Teach
  • OUR CURRICULUM
    • Incredible Me!
    • Special Educational Needs & Disability School Offer
    • Curriculum Outline and Rationale
    • Curriculum Leaders
    • Statutory Assessments
    • Core Subjects >
      • Reading >
        • Reading Blog
      • Writing >
        • Writing Blog
      • Maths >
        • Maths Blog
      • Computing >
        • Computing Blog
      • Science >
        • Science Blog
        • Spectacular Science
      • Community Cohesion >
        • Community Cohesion Blog
    • Foundation Subjects >
      • Art >
        • Art Blog
      • D&T >
        • DT Blog
      • Geography >
        • Geography Blog
      • History >
        • History Blog
      • Modern Foreign Languages >
        • MFL Blog
      • Music >
        • Music Blog
      • PE >
        • PE Blog
      • PSHE and One Life >
        • PSHE and One Life Blog
      • RE >
        • RE Blog
    • Oracy
    • Online Safety >
      • Online Safety Blog
      • Digital Parenting
    • Mrs Fitchett's Art Blog
    • Mr Smith's Sporting Information
    • British Values
    • SMSC at Park Street
    • Personal Learning And Thinking Skills
  • Team Groups
    • Nursery - Team CM >
      • Team CM Blog 2024/25
      • Team CM Blog 2023-24
      • Team CM Blog 2022-23
    • Reception - Team CW >
      • Team CW Blog 2024/25
      • Team CW Blog 2023-24
      • Team CW Blog 2022-23
    • Reception/Year 1 - Team EO >
      • Team EO Blog 2024/25
      • Team EO Blog 2023-24
      • Team EO Blog 2022-23
    • Year 1 - Team AC >
      • Team AC Blog 2024/25
      • Team CH Blog 2023-24
      • Team CH Blog 2022-23
    • Year 2 - Team JF >
      • Team JF Blog 2024/25
      • Team JF Blog 2023-24
      • Team JF Blog 2022-23
    • Year 2/3 - Team CH >
      • Team CH Blog 2024/25
      • Team AC Blog 2023-24
      • Team AC Blog 2022-23
    • Year 3 - Team CB >
      • Team CB Blog 2024/25
      • Team SG Blog 2023-24
      • Team CB Blog 2022-23
    • Year 4 - Team LF >
      • Team LF Blog 2024/25
      • Team JD Blog 2023-24
      • Team JD Blog 2022-23
    • Year 4/5 - Team JD >
      • Team JD Blog 2024/25
      • Team LF Blog 2023-24
      • Team LF Blog 2022-23
    • Year 5 - Team DB >
      • Team DB Blog 2024/25
      • Team DB Blog 2023-24
      • Team DB Blog 2022-23
    • Year 6 - Team AF >
      • Team AF Blog 2024/25
      • Team AF Blog 2023-24
      • Team AF Blog 2022-23
    • Year 6 - Team LL >
      • Team LL Blog 2024/25
      • Team LL Blog 2023-24
      • Team LL Blog 2022-23
  • Parents
    • Admissions >
      • New To Park Street Primary School? >
        • New to Park Street
        • New Starters - Nursery
        • New Starters - Reception
      • Nursery Admission Arrangements
      • Primary School Admission Arrangements
    • Complaints Procedure
    • Coronavirus >
      • Remote Learning
    • Information for Parents >
      • Attendance
      • Before & After School Provisions plus After School Extra Curricular Activities
      • Drop Off / Pickup Times
      • Healthy Schools
      • School Dinner Menu
      • School Times
      • School Uniform
      • Snow and bad weather
    • Letters and leaflets
    • Newsletters
    • Parent Support Advisor
    • Transition >
      • Transition to Secondary Education
      • Reception - Team CW
      • Reception/Year 1 - Team EO
      • Year 1 - Team AC
      • Year 2 - Team JF
      • Year 2/3 - Team CH
      • Year 3 - Team CB
      • Year 4 - Team SG
      • Year 4/5 - Team JD
      • Year 5 - Team DB
      • Year 6 - Team AF
      • Year 6 - Team LL
    • Useful Forms
    • What our parents say about Park Street?
  • Kids Zone
    • Arts Council Blog
    • The Park Street Gallery
    • Eco Rep Blog
    • Junior Reader Leaders
    • Student Council Blog
    • Online Safety
    • Performing Arts >
      • Performing Arts Blog
    • School Trips and Visitors >
      • Robinwood Residential
      • Trips we have been on
      • Visitors in school
    • Special Jobs Around School
    • Special Learning Events
  • Statutory Information
    • Ofsted Reports
    • School Performance Tables
    • Sports Premium
    • Pupil Premium
    • School Policies