Safeguarding

At Carr Infant School, we want every child and their family to feel safe and cared for at all times. We recognise that working in partnership with children, young people and their parents, carers and other agencies, is essential in promoting young people’s welfare, as the welfare of our children is important. All children, regardless of age, disability, gender, racial heritage, religious belief, sexual orientation or identity, have the right to equal protection from all types of harm and abuse.

We work under the guidance of the Department for Education (‘Keeping Children Safe in Education – Statutory Guidance for Schools and Colleges’ ) and the school’s Safeguarding Policy.

Safeguarding is the responsibility of all staff at Carr Infant School and all undergo regular training in Safeguarding such as Child Protection Online Safeguarding, completing online Prevent training, attending staff meetings delivered by external specialists and agencies to update knowledge and understanding. Annual Safeguarding training also includes staff and governors reading the DFE guidelines ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education (Part 1 and 5)’ and the school's Safeguarding Policy.

All staff have basic first aid training, with additional staff having more in depth training via the First Aid at Work and Paediatric First Aid courses.

Designated Safeguarding leads in school attend relevant and regular training and updates and share with the wider staff when necessary. Some teaching staff and governors are trained in Safer Recruitment. 

Child Protection

Child protection is part of safeguarding and refers to the protection given to specific children who are suffering, or at risk of suffering, harm.

Dr James Canniford is the designated teacher for Child Protection with Mrs Sharon Botterill as designated deputy. Ms Amy Hanson is the designated governor for Child Protection. Mrs Janet Dixon is the Office Manager with responsibility for Health, Safety and Premises.

All staff and governors have completed a ‘Basic Awareness’ qualification in Safeguarding. Our latest annual update training took place in September 2024; this training also includes attendees reading and agreeing to the DfE’s Keeping Children Safe in Education (part 1), the school’s Staff Code of Conduct, and the Safeguarding & Child Protection Policy all of which can be found in the Safeguarding section on our Policies & Key Documents page.

Prevent

The Prevent Duty is ‘the duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 on specified authorities, in the exercise of their functions, to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.’ (The Prevent Duty – Departmental advice for schools and childcare providers June 2015). As a school we need to ensure we protect children from the risks of radicalisation and extremism through our safeguarding procedures. We also need to provide a safe environment in which controversial issues can be discussed and build our pupils’ resilience and selfesteem to enable them to challenge extremist views. At Carr Infant School, we have made all staff aware of our responsibilities under the Prevent Duty. Through our RE and PHSCE curriculum and our work on Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development, including fundamental British values, we will enable children to explore a wide range of issues safely. Key staff and Governors have undergone Prevent Duty training online.

Bullying

We work hard to ensure that any instances of bullying are dealt with quickly and followed up. We care about all the children at our school and work closely with children and families to give every child the best experience. For more information see our Behaviour Policy.

Online-Safety

n our modern world, technology can pose certain risks that we want to protect our children against.

City of York Council schools internet provision currently utilises the Smoothwall filtering solution. This is a comprehensive filtering platform designed to protect schools from inappropriate on-line content, including new requirements around child safety/anti radicalisation, as well as meeting or exceeding the current compliance and recommended safeguarding children legislation. Detailed alerts and reporting are configured to alert the Authority helpdesk of an incident at a school, enabling a fast response to ensure children’s safety. 

Children at Carr Infants do not have unsupervised access to the internet in school, and staff ensure children are appropriately monitored when using the internet. Online safety is explicitly taught in all year groups. Our aim is that all children at Carr Infants will understand how to use the internet effectively and responsibly, and how to stay safe when accessing the internet, both at school and at home.

Our Online Safety Curriculum is taught through Assesmblies, PSHE, and Computing. 

Whistleblowing

Anybody having any concerns regarding the conduct of any adult within our school community, should refer to the school’s Safeguarding, Complaints and Whistleblowing policies.

Operation Encompass

Our school is part of a project that runs jointly between all schools in York, City of York Council and North Yorkshire Police. This project is designed to provide early reporting to schools of any domestic abuse incidents that occur outside of normal school hours and that might have had an impact on a child attending our premises the following day: See our Safeguarding Policy for more information.

MASH

Children's Services (Front Door) is now part of the Multi-Agency Support Hub. More information is provided here: https://www.yor-ok.org.uk/concerned-about-a-child-or-young-person.htm

Independent Domestic Abuse Services

As a school, we are able to offer support to families in conjunction with IDAS. For more information, please look at: https://www.yor-ok.org.uk/service-detail.htm?serviceid=1960

CEOP

CEOP is here to keep children safe from sexual abuse and grooming online.

You can make a report directly to the CEOP Safety Centre by clicking on the Click CEOP button if something has happened online which has made you feel unsafe, scared or worried. This might be from someone you know in real life, or someone you have only ever met online. CEOP take all reports seriously and we will do everything we can to keep you safe.

As well as making a report to the CEOP Safety Centre, the CEOP Education website has information and advice to help you if something has happened to you online.
Are you being bullied?

CEOP are unable to respond to reports about bullying but if you’re being bullied and would like to talk to someone in confidence right now you can speak to Childline on 0800 1111 or talk to them online – no worry is too big or too small.