Safeguarding
Safeguarding Children is Everybody's Responsibility
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as: protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.
Safeguarding is not just about protecting children from deliberate harm. It relates to aspects of school life including:
- pupils’ health and safety
- the use of reasonable force
- meeting the needs of pupils with medical conditions
- providing first aid
- educational visits
- intimate care
- internet or e-safety
- appropriate arrangements to ensure school security, taking into account the local contex
Are you concerned that a child is being abused or neglected?
If you are concerned about a child and you feel they are being abused, neglected or at risk of abuse/neglect, then you should consider making a safeguarding child referral.
Contact Blackburn with Darwen Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) for confidential advice and consultation. Monday to Friday 08.45-17.00 please call: 01254 666400
If you are calling outside these hours please contact our Emergency Duty Team on 01254 587547.
Additional informaion linked to Local Safeguarding Children Boards can be found at:
www.safeguardingpartnership.org.uk
https://www.safeguardingpartnership.org.uk
You can also report your concerns online: NSPCC Website: www.nspcc.org.uk
Or you can also speak to: NSPCC 0800 800 5000 or Childline 0800 1111