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 10 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.  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 and 'Incredible Us' sessions.

The Safeguarding Team consists of the following staff:

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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:

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 2023.

Safeguarding Policy 2023-24

KCSIE 2023

KCSIE 2023 Part One

Working Together to Safeguard Children

What to do if you are worried about a child