Safeguarding

Safeguarding is at the core of all we do at Water Leys and safeguarding our children is everyone's responsibility. 

If you have concerns about a child within school hours, please contact the office on 0116 2884135 and ask to speak to either Mr Wright or Mrs Goodwin who are our Designated Safeguarding Leaders. If you have a concern out of school hours and need help or need to report a concern, call 0116 305 0005. This will direct you to Leicestershire Children's Social Services. If a child is immediately at risk, please call the Police on 999. 

Our Designated Safeguarding Leaders (DSL) are Mr Wright and Mrs Goodwin, Co-Headteachers. They are also the Prevent Leaders for the school.  Mrs Faye Jarrams-Royley is our Governor responsible for Safeguarding. 

Our Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leaders (DDSL) are Mrs Benstead and Miss McMahon

Water Leys is part of Operation Encompass. This is a police and education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people who experience Domestic Abuse.  The police share information with the school's Designated Senior Leaders about incidents that they have attended where they feel there has been an impact upon the child's physical, emotional or mental well-being.  This information is shared so that our school can better understand children’s living experience and can support, nurture and care for them more effectively.

Our safeguarding policy can be found on our policies tab. There you will also find a number of other policies which support the safeguarding of our pupils including our Anti-Bullying policy, Behaviour Policy, Child on Child Abuse Policy, Online Safety policy, Relationships and Sex Education policy, Designated Teacher for Looked After Children policy and our Low Level Concerns policy. 

Keeping children safe in education statutory guidance

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2

Guidance for safer working practice for those working with children and young people in education settings can be found here (Addendum April 2020) and here (May 2019).

Working together to safeguard children

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-safeguard-children--2

Water Leys Anti-bullying Statement of intent

Water Leys Primary school believes that all pupils are entitled to learn in a safe and supportive environment; this means being free from all forms of bullying behaviour. This policy outlines how instances of bullying are dealt with, including the procedures to prevent occurrences of bullying. These strategies, such as learning about tolerance and difference as part of the school’s curriculum, aim to promote an inclusive, tolerant, and supportive ethos at the school. Our Jigsaw PSHE Curriculum, in particular encourages an antibullying approach and has specific ‘puzzles’ (units of work) aimed at celebrating difference and diversity that help celebrate diversity, build resilience and challenge thinking. The Education and Inspections Act 2006 outlines several legal obligations regarding the school’s response to bullying. Under section 89, schools must have measures in place to encourage good behaviour and prevent all forms of bullying amongst pupils. These measures are part of the school’s Behaviour Policy, which is communicated to all pupils, school staff and parents. All staff, parents and pupils work together to prevent and reduce any instances of bullying at the school. There is a zero-tolerance policy for bullying at our school. Where staff have concerns about the behaviour of other adults they should refer to our Safeguarding Policy and our Low Level Concerns Policy.