Safeguarding & eSafety

Lingfield Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment.

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. We have clear child protection policies and procedures in place and all staff, volunteers and governors receive appropriate safeguarding training and guidance. Parents and carers are welcome to view all safeguarding-related policies in the policies section of our website.

We work closely with parents, carers and external agencies to safeguard children. Where concerns arise, we discuss these with parents or carers at the earliest appropriate opportunity, unless we believe that doing so would place a child at further risk.

All staff, including teachers, volunteers, and governors, receive regular safeguarding training and updates. This ensures that everyone working in the school understands their responsibilities, knows how to recognise concerns and is confident in how to report them appropriately. Action is taken in a timely manner to safeguard and promote children’s welfare.

Our Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) are:

  • Andrew Winter DSL
  • Anna Sutton Deputy DSL
  • Charlotte Bunyan Deputy DSL
  • Lucy Longley Deputy DSL
  • Janice Blatcher Deputy DSL
  • Jas Jackson Deputy DSL


Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) are members of staff who have specific responsibility for safeguarding and child protection within the school. They provide advice and guidance to staff, respond to concerns and work closely with families and external agencies to ensure children are kept safe.

Key Safeguarding Principles Safeguarding Leaders

What should I do if I am worried about a child?


If you are worried about the safety of any young person in our school for any reason, you must report this to one of our Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs). You can speak to us in person or contact us via email.

National Safeguarding Initiatives 

 

 

 

E-Safety

 Our approach to e-safety is based on addressing the following categories of risk:

  • Content – being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful content, such as pornography, fake news, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, anti-Semitism, radicalisation and extremism
  • Contact – being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users, such as peer-to-peer pressure, commercial advertising and adults posing as children or young adults with the intention to exploit them
  • Conduct – personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm, such as making, sending and receiving explicit images, sharing other explicit images and online bullying
  • Commerce – risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and/or financial scam

The school uses SENSO, which monitors all messages, inspects images for visual threats and flags keyword algorithms.

The school runs termly internet filtering and monitoring tests (SWGfL) and liaises with eduthing (IT Services for Education) to ensure platforms in school are secure and comply with UK statutory safeguarding duties, centred on Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), the DfE’s online safety guidance and emerging duties linked to the Online Safety Act and Ofsted expectations.

Staff sign an Acceptable User Agreement regarding the use of electronic devices in school, including personal mobile devices.

Links for Parents

Please click on the logos below to visit the respective website (links open in a new window):

 

Parent Guardian Online Radicalisation Information and Support

 

 

 

 

Social Media Risks