Safeguarding
Keeping children safe is everyone’s responsibility!
All staff at Linthwaite Clough Primary School understand their individual responsibilities when it comes to safeguarding and its importance, following guidelines set by the Department for Education. Members across our school community play a key role in ensuring our children are safe at all times. On this page, you can find information about the systems we have in place to do so, and what you need to do if you have any concerns about a child.
Key document
Our Safeguarding Policy can be found in our Policy Library.
If you have any concerns about a child, please act immediately!
What to do if you are worried about a child
Who to contact at Linthwaite Clough
Designated Safeguarding Lead: James Roberts
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads: Mrs Alison Barker and Mr Liam Kershaw
What happens if there is a cause for concern?
Our first priority is of course each child’s welfare and school is required to take any reasonable action to ensure the safety of its pupils.
However there may be occasions when we have reason to be concerned that a child may be subject to ill-treatment, neglect or other forms of abuse. We will ensure that our concerns about a child are discussed with his/her parents/carers first, unless we have reason to believe that such action would put the child at greater risk.
In this case school is obliged to follow the Child Protection procedures and inform the Children's Social Services of the concern.
If you are worried about a child's safety please do not hesitate to contact the school or contact Kirklees safeguarding.
More sources of help
Kirklees Safeguarding
If you are worried about a child in Kirklees you can contact the Duty & Advice Team
on: 01484 456848 during office hoursNSPCC
If you’re worried about a child or unsure what to do, the NSPCC website and helpline offer information and advice from a trained counsellors.
- Help for adults concerned about a child
Call NSPCC on 0808 800 5000
- Help for children and young people
Call Childline on 0800 1111
- NSPCC Report Abuse in Education: 0800 136 663Report harmful content online
You can use the button below to report harmful content online such as online abuse, impersonation, violent or pornographic content. The national reporting centre can help get a satisfactory response from a range of platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat and many more
If a child is in immediate danger, call the police on 999 straightaway.
Protecting children from domestic violence
We are part of Operation Encompass, a national scheme involving schools and police to protect children who experience domestic violence. Please see the poster and links to find out more.
Click poster to enlarge.
We’re positive about mental health.
We support positive mental health and wellbeing in our children, staff and families.