Safeguarding

A concern goes to the Designated Safeguarding Lead whether or not you have evidence, and you may go to Ofsted directly at any point without finishing our stages first. It names the people and their roles, the standing arrangements behind them, and how to raise a concern.

Raising a concern.

Report it even if you are unsure.

A concern about a child, about an adult, or about something you saw and cannot place, goes to the Designated Safeguarding Lead. You do not need to have evidence.

You may contact Ofsted directly.

If a concern is about the setting itself and you would rather not raise it with us, the trustees can be written to at the same address, and Ofsted may be contacted directly. You do not have to wait for our internal stages to finish.

Nasima Bobat

Designated Safeguarding Lead and Prevent officer, across both settings

Nadia Begum, Deputy Manager

Deputy safeguarding contact and Deputy SENCO

The standing arrangements

• Every adult who works with children is DBS-checked before starting, and trained in safeguarding at the level their role requires.

• Training is refreshed annually, and the record of who is trained and when is kept in the office.

• We work within the Barking and Dagenham Local Safeguarding Children Partnership framework and follow the statutory guidance in full.

• Concerns are recorded on the day they are raised, including low-level concerns about adults, which are logged rather than weighed up informally.

• Photography and the use of a child's image require separate written parent consent, per child and per use, revocable at any time.

How to raise a concern.

By phone, by email, in person at the office, or through the contact page.