• Our Designated Safeguarding Lead is Miss Gemma Whittingham (Head of School)
• Our Deputy Designated Leads are Mrs Sam Ray (Executive Headteacher) and Mrs Rebecca Johnson (Assistant Head)
• Our Safeguarding Champion Governor is Mrs Helen Finn

Our first and foremost priority at Betley CE Primary is to keep your child safe and healthy. Keeping your child safe means:

• Making sure that the adults who work here have undergone safety and security checks
• Protecting children from deliberate harm
• Being an anti-bullying school
• Being proactive against racist behaviour
• Being proactive against attempts to indoctrinate children in to any form of extreme ideology
• Protecting our children from harassment and discrimination
• A positive approach to behaviour management 
• Meeting the needs of children with medical conditions
• Providing first aid
• Protecting children from drug and substance abuse
• Children enjoying safe educational visits
• Caring for children’s personal needs
• Keeping children safe when using the internet and making sure they are aware of cyber bullying.
• Making sure our school is secure and safe
• Being a ‘listening school’.
• Ensuring they know who to go in school if they have a problem

Safeguarding Documentation

• Letter to Parents/Carers regarding Private Tutors
• Child on Child Abuse Policy 2022 (incl Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment between children)
• Primary Age-appropriate Child-on-Child Abuse Policy September 2022
• Low Level Safeguarding Policy September 2022
• Whistle Blowing Policy 2023
• Keeping Children safe In Education 2023
• Safer Recruitment Policy 2023-24
• Safeguarding Policy 2023-24

Everyone has a responsibility