Safeguarding

Our pupils’ safety and well-being is our most important concern. We understand safeguarding as:

• Providing help and support to meet the needs of children as soon as problems emerge

• Protecting children from maltreatment, whether that is within or outside home, including online

• Preventing the impairment of children’s mental and physical 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

All staff at Aston Tower receive regular training to help them promote our pupils’ welfare. Staff will immediately report concerns about children to one of the Designated Senior Leaders for Safeguarding who are Jonathan Moore, Suki Rai-Moore, Dawn Saxena and Deborah Walters

Our safeguarding trustee is Amanda Bishop.

We work with families to provide support through any difficulties they might be facing. We can offer Early Help support to families who we may feel will benefit from this. We work with a range of partners to keep our pupils safe, such as Birmingham Children’s Trust.

Our curriculum builds our pupils’ resilience to safeguarding concerns. Subjects like Personal, Health and Social Education, along with other parts of the curriculum provide our pupils with the knowledge they need to keep themselves and others safe. Our computing curriculum helps pupils understand the importance of e-safety, and assemblies and lessons teach pupils about the importance of Fundamental British values.

We have a practice of not having mobile ‘phones being used near or with children. Staff and visitors must not comment, or participate with comments, relating to Aston Tower Primary School on any social media sites.