SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT Alderwasley Hall School is committed to keeping children and young people safe. By providing a safe environment for children to live, learn and play and by identifying children who are, or may be, suffering harm, the school will endeavour to ensure they are kept safe both at school and at home.
To achieve this, we have systems in place which are designed to:
• Create and maintain a safe living and learning environment. • Identify child welfare concerns and take appropriate action. • Use the curriculum to enable our children to develop keep-safe strategies. • Operate safer recruitment and selection procedures to prevent unsuitable people from working with our children. Anyone visiting the school shares the responsibility to keep children safe whilst on our premises and will be required to work within the guidelines of our safeguarding procedures. Our safeguarding policies can be viewed in the policies section of the website. Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child’s welfare. We will ensure that our concerns about our students are discussed with his/her parents/carers first unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child’s welfare. If at any time you have concerns about the welfare of a child, Kay Tunstall, the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), or our Deputy DSL should be contacted. If either are not available please call the school office and you will be transferred to a member of the safeguarding team to discuss your concerns.
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