Safeguarding
To contact school, please ring 01904 552225
To report a safeguarding concern to the Local Authority, please ring 01904 551900
In an emergency, please ring 999
Self-Evaluation and Review
Wigginton Primary School takes its commitment to safeguarding and child protection very seriously. We conduct regular self-evaluation and audits of our policies, practice and procedures. Governors hold school leaders to account for ensuring that planned actions are completed within the timeframes indicated.
Staff Training
Safeguarding is the responsibility of all staff at Wigginton Primary School and all the teachers and teaching assistants undergo regular training in Safeguarding, including (but not limited to): Child Protection, Safer Recruitment, First Aid, Prevent (the name given to the training which aims to prevent young children becoming radicalised) and other safeguarding risks prevalent in our community.
All staff and governors complete an annual ‘Basic Awareness’ qualification in Safeguarding. Annual Safeguarding training also includes staff and governors reading and agreeing to the DFE guidelines ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education (Part 1)’, the school’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policy documents.
Preventing Radicalisation
Prevent Strategy Information for Parents explains our responsibilities in protecting children from extremist and violent views. It also supports us in promoting and teaching important values such as tolerance, respect and the celebration of diversity. You can see the parent leaflet – Prevent Strategy here.
Prevent Duty Information is also included in the Safeguarding Policy (available on Our Policies page).
Bullying
We work hard to ensure that any instances of bullying are dealt with quickly and followed up over time. 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 (available on Our Policies page).
Online-Safety
In our modern world, technology poses certain risks that we want to protect our children against.
For more information see our Online-Safety Policy (available on Our Policies page).
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 (available on Our Policies page).
Operation Encompass
Our school is involved in a project that will run 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 (available on Our Policies page).
The letter here also provides information on “Operation Encompass.”
External organisations
City of York Safeguarding Children Partnership