Safeguarding at Holy Cross

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. 

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined by the Department for Education as: 

• protecting children from maltreatment 
• preventing impairment of children’s health or development 
• ensuring children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care. 
• taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes. 

Child protection is a part of safeguarding and promoting welfare. It refers to the activity that is undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering, or are likely to suffer, significant harm.

The aim of Prevent is to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

The objectives of Prevent are to:

• tackle the ideological causes of terrorism.
• intervene early to support people susceptible to radicalisation.
• enable people who have already engaged in terrorism to disengage and rehabilitate.

Our Designated Safeguarding Lead is Headteacher, Mrs Zeil. Our Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads are Mrs Waterson, Miss Thorne and Miss Fowler and the Trust Safeguarding Lead is Jade Betts.

Our designated teacher for Looked After Children is Mrs R Waterson.

If you are concerned about a child’s welfare, please get in contact with one of the school safeguarding team. 

Please click below to view our current Safeguarding Policy.