Safeguarding and Welfare Team

Designated Safeguarding Lead: DSL

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead: DDSL

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility, and it is amongst the most important things we do. If our pupils do not feel safe, they will not learn. We will endeavour to provide a safe and welcoming environment where children are respected and valued.

The name of the academy’s Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) is Rhia Chagger. They can be contacted via the academy office or using safeguarding@medeshamstedeacademy.org 

We have the following staff who are also responsible for overseeing safeguarding across the school:

• Matthew Bloodworth-Flatt (Principal)
• Nic Maker (Assistant Principal and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead)
• Tanya Briggs (Pastoral Learning Mentor and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead)
• Zoe Lockwood (Family Support Worker and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead)

You can find links to our trust-wide and academy specific safeguarding policy below. 

If you have a concern regarding an adult working with children at Medeshamstede Academy, please contact Matthew Bloodworth-Flatt. You can also report directly to the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO): LADO@peterborough.gov.uk

Additonal information can also be found through the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board - https://www.safeguardingcambspeterborough.org.uk/

Department for Education information around Children Missing in Education can also be found here - Children missing education: statutory guidance for local authorities and schools - GOV.UK

Sexual Abuse within Schools: Child on Child Abuse, Sexual Violence and Harassment and Harmful Sexual Behaviour:

Our position as a trust and within all our academies is clear: sexual violence and sexual harassment are never acceptable, will never be tolerated and are not an inevitable part of growing up. Such behaviour will never go unchallenged or become accepted and we remain committed to working openly and transparently to promote mutual respect. We will always act on concerns raised

Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy has guidance within it around the indicators of child-on-child abuse and harmful sexual behaviour along with our response procedures. All relevant Safeguarding Policies are available on individual academy websites.

All pupils are taught the Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum.

 

 

Please click on the below links to access current safeguarding guidance.