At Shotley Community Primary School, ‘Be Safe’ is the third pillar of our core values. We are immensely proud of the support we offer to our children, their families, and our wider community.

We recognise the moral and statutory responsibility placed on all staff and community members to safeguard and promote the welfare of every child. To support this, we aim to provide a safe, welcoming, and open environment where both children and adults feel secure raising concerns—confident that they will be listened to and that appropriate action will be taken.

Safeguarding is embedded throughout our curriculum in PSHE, RSE, Computing and in assemblies. We ensure our pupils know how to stay safe both in person and online and understand what steps to take if they ever feel worried about their well-being.

Our policy applies to all staff, parents, governors, volunteers, visitors, and pupils. It reflects the latest government guidance, Keeping Children Safe in Education.

You can read our full Safeguarding Policy below, or request a hard copy from the school office.

• NSPCC Tel: 0800 8005000 nspcc.org.uk

• Childline Tel: 08001111 childline.org.uk

• Worried about radicalisation? educateagainsthate.com

• Suffolk Safeguarding Children’s Board suffolkscb.org.uk

• Concerned about a child? Customer First Tel: 0808 8004005

Keeping safe online is very important to us at Shotley Community Primary School.

We aim to keep our pupils safe online and also when using mobile phones, games consoles and wireless technology. We feel it is important to educate our children on the benefits, risks and responsibility of using information technology.

All of our pupils and staff have signed our acceptable use of technology agreements and regular updates, reminders and training is given to both staff and pupils.

Our e-safety lead is R Newton