Hurst Green School and Nursery Safeguarding Team
Trust Safeguarding Team
What Should I do if I have a Safeguarding Concern?
Concerns about Children or Young People
If you have any concerns relating to Child Protection or Safeguarding, please contact one of the schools designated officers via the school office immediately.
Visiting the School?
If you are a visitor to the school and need to report a concern, please speak to the DSL immediately.
If a child or other person is at any immediate risk of harm, the first response should always be to call the police on 999. This policy applies to all adults, including volunteers, working in or on behalf of Hurst Green CE School and Nursery and DCAT.
Concerns about a Member of Staff
If you have a concern about a member of staff or a volunteer, please contact the headteacher or alternatively contact a member of the Trust DSL team.
Concerns and the Headteacher
If you have concerns about the Headteacher please contact the chair of governors or the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) through SPOA or the East Sussex County Council Website.
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility
It is the responsibility of every member of staff in the School to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. Safeguarding covers recruitment of staff, visitors to the School, the School site and the safety of all pupils and staff. Our safeguarding team is led by Miss Allison Flack who can be contacted on 01580860375 or via the school office email office@hurstgreen.school.
We follow statutory guidance set out in ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ (September 2024). This document contains information on what schools and colleges should do and sets out the legal duties with which schools and colleges must comply in order to keep children safe.
For more information please see the East Sussex Local Safeguarding Children Board’s website.
Hurst Green CE School and Nursery is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and requires all staff, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment.
To safeguard children and young people we do the following:
- Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) checks are carried out on everyone regularly working in the school
- The DBS status of every adult working with our students (e.g. sports coaches and music teachers) is checked
- No adult without a DBS check will be left unsupervised with pupils at Hurst Green
- Contractors and other services working on site are required to meet safeguarding requirements
- All school staff are given safeguarding training annually and are conversant with the DfE guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’
- Allegations will be dealt with quickly, fairly and with transparency
- Safeguarding procedures will be communicated to all staff, parents and visitors
- We are part of Operation Encompass
Useful contact numbers
Children and young people
For additional help and support, or to speak to someone independent of the school, please call the MASH/SPOA team on:
SPOA – 01323 464 222
MASH – 01424 724 144
Staff and volunteers
To speak to someone independent of the school about staff or volunteers, please call the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) on:
LADO – http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/lado
NSPCC helpline – 0808 800 5000
Accidents and Illness at School
We have both qualified ‘Full First Aiders’ and qualified ‘Paediatric First Aiders’ on staff at our school. If a child sustains an accident, the following procedure takes place:
If the accident is minor, the appropriate first aid is administered and the child returns to class.
If it is thought that the accident is more serious, parents and carers are contacted so that they can arrange for the child to see a doctor. If the parent cannot be reached, the Head Teacher assumes responsibility for the child. This would normally mean an ambulance being called to the school, if deemed serious enough to warrant this action.
If a child receives ANY bump to the head, a letter is sent home with him/her alerting parents and carers to the possibility of delayed reactions.
If a child is sick or has diarrhoea they are required to stay off school for 48 hours after the last incident occurred.
All accidents in school are recorded in the Accident Book. If a child is taken ill at school, parents and carers are contacted with a view to him/her being taken home. It is most important that we are informed of any change of address or telephone numbers. We keep a file index of information which will enable us to contact parents and carers during the day if necessary and it is essential that this is kept up-
Wellbeing
Links to websites to support your child’s mental wellbeing.
Short audio sessions to help with mindfulness
Cosmic Yoga videos designed for children age 3+
Interactive videos to support with KS1 and KS2 Maths, English, PSHE and PE.
Hundreds of ‘braincercise’, dancing, strength and mindfulness videos – as well as videos for fun!
Videos and activities to support with Maths, English, PSHE and PE.
Keeping children up to date with the world around them.
Links to websites providing access to emotional health and wellbeing services.
Future in Mind – the 5 year transformation programme for children and young people’s emotional health
Young Minds -The UK’s leading charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people
MindEd -A free educational resource on children and young people’s mental health for all adults (parents, educators and other professionals)
Time to Change -A growing movement of people changing how we all think and act about mental health
Winstons’ Wish -The leading childhood bereavement charity in the UK, offering practical support and guidance to bereaved children and their families and professionals
Reading Well Scheme -Promotes the benefits of reading for health and wellbeing to young people (secondary age) but provides some useful resources and suggestions for parents
