What we do to safeguard children...

 

'Oldswinford CE Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the physical, mental and emotional welfare of every pupil, both inside and outside of the school premises. We implement a whole-school preventative approach to managing safeguarding concerns, ensuring that the wellbeing of pupils is at the forefront of all action taken.' [Safeguarding Policy 2026]

 

A Safeguarding Team has been created at Oldswinford to ensure that we are fully compliant and at all times we are protecting, to the best of our ability the children in our school.

The team is responsible for;

 

• Completing various recruitment checks and induction of staff, agency staff, students, governors and volunteers.
• Site Security, this includes visitors system, issuing of ID badges, key control measures, risk assessments of any visitors and the safety checking of outside equipment. It also includes the reviewing of fire procedures, fire drills, emergency planning and business continuity planning.
• Ensuring the most up to date policies are being adhered to and are circulated to staff regularly.
• Arranging regular staff training and circulating safeguarding updates to staff, governors, volunteers and students, and keeping records of all training.
• Checking that all staff, agency staff, governors, volunteers and visitors have the appropriate checks completed before entering the school.
• Following procedures for visitors and ensuring they are complaint in accordance to the policies.
• Ensure record keeping is secure for personal information and correct procedures are followed as set by the Local Authority and Information Governance.

 

Mrs Ellie Game - Lead DSL

Mrs Jo Seker - Deputy DSL

Mrs Fran Wooldridge- Deputy DSL

Mrs Sarah Dunn - Deputy DSL

Miss Rachael Barrows - Deputy DSL

Mrs Debbie Kirby - Deputy DSL

Meetings are held between Ellie Game, Fran Wooldridge and Alan Gilhooley (Safeguarding Governor) on a regular basis to ensure that procedures are being followed by the school and for Mr Gilhooley to be able to update the other Governors to the practices carried out by the school in order to keep our children safe in school.

To view our Safeguarding policies, please refer to the Policy section on the website.

Pupil Voice (October 2026)

We asked a range of pupils from Year 3-6:

• No children said that they felt unsafe at school.
• No children said that they didn't enjoy school.

Parent Voice (October 2026)

97% said that their children were happy at Oldswinford.

97% said that their child felt safe at school.