Safeguarding Information
Safeguarding Team
If you are worried that a child is being harmed, or is at risk of being harmed, please speak to any member of our Safeguarding Team. All conversations will be dealt with sensitively and confidentially. However, you may wish to report a concern direct to North Somersets Front Door Team or through NSPCC Childline click here
All staff are familiar with the government’s guidance for schools: Keeping Children Safe in Education. We regularly review our school policies and procedures to ensure we fulfil our duty of care.
We are an equal opportunities employer. At least one member of every interview panel has had Safer Recruitment training. All offers of employment are subject to a disclosure and barring check (DBS), medical clearance and satisfactory references.
All visitors to the academy must sign in at main reception, where they will be issued with the ‘appropriate’ lanyard. All visitors with a red lanyard must be supervised at all times.
Concerns about Staff
Should you have any concerns in terms of safeguarding relating to the behaviour of a member of staff, you should immediately contact the Principal. Should you feel that your concerns have not been dealt with appropriately by the school or Academy Councillors you should contact the Designated Officer for Allegations (DOFA).
North Somerset’s LADO is James McMillan
07795 092 692
[email protected]
Academy Site
If you have any concerns regarding the safety of the school site, please contact a member of the school’s safeguarding team.
Safeguarding in the Curriculum
Prevent Strategy
The Prevent strategy, published by the Government in 2011, is part of our overall counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST. The aim of the Prevent strategy is to reduce the threat to the UK from terrorism by stopping people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. In the Act this has simply been expressed as the need to ‘prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’. The 2011 Prevent strategy has three specific strategic objectives:
- respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism and the threat we face from those who promote it
- prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and ensure that they are given appropriate advice and support
- work with sectors and institutions where there are risks of radicalisation that we need to address.
The Academy lead for the Prevent Strategy is Samantha Hodder. If you have any concerns relating to this please use the contact numbers above.
Online Safety
Staying safe online is very important within today’s ever changing world. Here at Uphill Village Academy we take online safety very seriously and we continually reinforce staying safe on the internet within lessons and general use around the school. Please read our Online Safety Policy for more information.
Parent Carer overview of online safety – NS cyber protect team
