Safeguarding

The Trust ensures all Academy policies and procedures in respect of safeguarding children are up to date and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024. Policies and procedures are reviewed and revised by Academy Principals, Designated Safeguarding Leads and Local Governing Committees on a regular basis (at least annually). Policies are accessible to all staff and parents through the individual Academy websites. Contextualised safeguarding information is available on each Academy’s website. This includes, for example, the names of the Designated Safeguarding Leads and their deputies and how to raise a safeguarding concern. Academies use CPOMS to record concerns, information and actions towards keeping pupils safe.

At Cranberry Academy we recognise the responsibility we have under Section 175 of the Education and Inspections Act 2002, to have arrangements for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The Governing Board in our school approve the S175/157 return to the Cheshire East Safeguarding Children’s Partnership (CESCP) on a yearly basis. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families and carers has a role to play in safeguarding children. In order to fulfil this responsibility effectively, all practitioners in this school make sure their approach is child centred. This means that September 2024 Page |3 we consider, at all times, what is in the best interests of the child. The term children includes everyone under the age of 18.

We plan to constantly challenge children to think deeply about safeguarding matters and their own personal physical and mental wellbeing. We value pupils’ questions and give them space for their own thoughts, ideas and concerns. We give them opportunities across the curriculum to explore values, personal rights, responsibilities and equal opportunities that develop moral concepts that impact positively on safeguarding, promote British values and prevent radicalisation and extremism. Our safeguarding curriculum is also supplemented with a variety of visits, visitors and assemblies throughout the year, which further enhances pupil learning. This policy outlines where specific safeguarding objectives fit into our curriculum.

Cranberry Academy is fully aware of its responsibility under the Prevent Duty Guidance 2023 and recognises that its responsibilities to prevent and protect children from extremism, fits within its duty of child protection and safeguarding. Prevent” is part of the government’s counter terrorism strategy to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. The Prevent strategy covers all types of terrorism and extremism, including the extreme right wing, religious extremists and other causes.

All children are entitled to a full-time education, regardless of their circumstances. Unfortunately, children missing from education (CME) risk underachieving, and not being in education, employment or training (NEET) in later life, and it can act as a vital warning sign of a range of safeguarding concerns, including abuse and
neglect. Every Local Authority (LA) has a legal duty to identify when there are CME and help them back into education. This guidance highlights what our Academies will do to help the LA with its duty.

Educational achievement and subsequent life chances for Looked After Children (LAC) and previously-Looked After Children (PLAC) are of real concern. Pupils who are looked after often require additional support and attention in order to improve their situation. St. Bart’s Multi-Academy Trust endeavours to provide positive experiences and offer stability, safety, and individual care and attention for all our pupils.

This is statutory guidance from the Department for Education (‘the Department’) issued under Section 175 of the Education Act 2002 (as amended), the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014, the Non-Maintained Special Schools (England) Regulations 2015 and the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (as amended). Schools and colleges in England must have regard to it when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. For the purposes of this guidance children includes everyone under the age of 18.

Cheshire East’s Domestic and Sexual abuse Partnership is committed to promoting and supporting the needs of children and young people affected by domestic, sexual and relationship abuse by identifying their needs and responding accordingly; in order for these children and young people to meet their full potential. As a partnership, Cheshire East is committed to ensuring our work with families is robust, comprehensive, preventative and proactive, so we achieve both safety and recovery. This policy and practice guidance sets out how the needs of these children and young people will be identified and assessed and the range of services open to them to assist them in feeling and being safe, secure and able to thrive