All members of the St Therese of Lisieux school share a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and have a duty to follow the procedures approved by the Local Safeguarding Children Board and take appropriate action if they have concerns about a child’s welfare.

Designated Safeguarding Lead – Miss H Lickess

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads – Mr M Ryan, Mrs H Mannion, Mr M Sherrington and Mrs S Sherrington.

Miss Lickess, Mr Ryan, Mrs Mannion, Mr Sherrington and Mrs Sherrington are the Designated Child Protection members of staff and all teaching and support staff have had regular Child Protection Awareness training.

Mr J Newman is our Safeguarding Governor.

All staff have undertaken Channel General Awareness training with regards to the Prevent Strategy.

All teachers are fully aware of the important guidance given to school by the government in their Keeping Children Safe in Education Document and have complete annual Safeguarding training. All staff completed Keeping Children Safe in Education training in September.

We currently have 18 members of staff who have successfully completed First Aid training of which 14 members of staff are ‘Paediatric First Aid’ trained. All members of staff have received epipen training and 12 members of staff defibrillator training. For full details of the school’s commitment please refer to the Child Protection Policy found under our policies page.