At Water Primary School, we believe that all children have the right to be safe and happy. We all have the responsibility to ensure that all children are protected from maltreatment and impairment of health or development.

We will ensure that:

The welfare of the child remains paramount.

All children whatever their age, culture, disability, gender, language, racial origin, religious beliefs and/ or sexual identity have the right to be protected from harm.

All suspicions and allegations of abuse will be taken seriously and responded to swiftly and appropriately.

All staff and volunteers working at our school have a responsibility to report concerns to Miss Elizabeth McKay (Designated Safeguarding Lead for Child Protection) or our Backup DSLs: Mrs Jennifer Edington and Miss Michelle Launder. 

If you have any safeguarding concerns please contact Miss McKay DSL or Mrs Edington/Miss Launder (Back up DSLs)

Water Primary School is participating in Operation Encompass. Operation Encompass is a unique Police and Education early intervention safeguarding partnership which ensures that a child/young person's school/college is informed, prior to the start of the next school day, that there has been a domestic abuse, vulnerable child or missing incident to which the child or young person has been exposed, and which might then have an impact on them in school or college the following day. You can find more information about this at the bottom of this page.

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