Denmead Infant School ensure that everyone, this includes staff and volunteers or visitors to the site, who comes into contact with children and their families has a role to play in safeguarding children. Denmead Infant staff are particularly important as they are in a position to identify concerns early and provide help for children, to prevent concerns from escalating. Denmead Infant staff form part of the wider safeguarding system for children. This system is described in statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. Denmead Infant School works with social care, the police, health services and other services to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm. The designated safeguarding leads will provide support to staff members to carry out their safeguarding duties and who will liaise closely with other services such as children’s social care.
