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Safeguarding
Lantern and the Learning Community Trust
committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of our pupils both inside and outside of school.
Safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do.
We have staff who are trained to deal with safeguarding and child protection – our pupils and staff know who these people are, as the information is highly visible around the campus. In addition, all our staff receive regular training on safeguarding, and other high priority element of keeping your people safe.
All the trust’s academies have the ethos to create and maintain a safe learning environment where all children and adults feel safe, secure, and valued and know they will be listened to and taken seriously. Our academy is committed to ‘every child matters’, ‘keeping children safe in education’ and implements policies, practices and procedures which promote safeguarding and the emotional and physical wellbeing of children, young people and staff.
Our polices in relation to safeguarding can be found on our policies page – click here
What is safeguarding?
It might be difficult to accept, but every child can be hurt, put at risk of harm, or abused, regardless of their age, gender, religion, or ethnicity. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as:
- protecting children from maltreatment
- preventing impairment of children’s mental health or development
- ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
- taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes
In line with statutory guidance, Lantern is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Every employee (permanent or temporary) and governor of the school, as well as every volunteer who assists at the school, is aware that it is their legal duty to protect children from harm.
Our safeguarding team
Lantern’s designated safeguarding, child protection and online safety lead is:
- Michelle Skidmore – Headteacher
In addition of the designated safeguarding lead, who is the person with ultimate responsibility for safeguarding, there is a team of deputy designated safeguarding leads to support and safeguard our pupils:
- Kayleigh Vincent is responsible for supporting families through Early Help,
- Francesca Barnicott is the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead with responsibility for Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation and
- Emma Pritchett is our Named Safeguarding Officer who is the Dedicated Teacher for Looked After Children.
Reach out
Contacting the safeguarding team
The safeguarding team can be contacted during our opening hours. Outside these hours, out of hours safeguarding information can be found out the Learning Community Trust’s website – click here
Please remember, if yourself or someone is in immediate risk of harm, please contact 999 or visit your nearest A&E.
Call the academy on 01952 386961
Request a call back (during office hours)
