Safeguarding Team

All adults in our school have a responsibility for Safeguarding and all staff have completed Safeguarding Awareness Training, provided by the TKAT Senior Safeguarding Lead and led by the school's Designated Safeguarding Lead, as well as online refresher training.

The most recent whole school staff training took place in September 2024. All staff Safeguarding training is recorded for school records.

If you are concerned about any Safeguarding issues, please come and speak to one of our Safeguarding Leads. We currently have three fully trained Designated Safeguarding Leads:

• Mr Setchell - Designated Safeguarding Lead
• Mrs Smith - Deputy Safeguarding Lead
• Mrs Fitch - Deputy Safeguarding Lead
• Mrs Prior – Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Joanne Alexander leads Safeguarding on behalf of our Governors. Part of Joanne’s role is to challenge our procedures and policies, ensuring that we are effectively safeguarding all of our pupils.

At School, we have a Single Central Record (SCR) to ensure all staff and volunteers have the required checks and certificates. Our Single Central Record is managed by the Business Manager and Mr Setchell, to ensure this record is updated and ensures all of the necessary qualifications and documents are in place.

Visitors

All adults in school are required to wear a Pluckley Church of England Primary School identification Badge, and they must sign in at the school office to receive this. All staff, governors, students and volunteers undertake a DBS check and details of these checks are kept in a single central record in school.

All visitors to the school are required to sign in, upon which they are given a visitors lanyard:

• Visitors with the appropriate checks and are able to work with children will be given a white lanyard.
• Visitors who are not able to work with children are given a red lanyard.

Staff can be easily identified due to their blue lanyard.

If you or a child is in immediate danger, phone the Police on 999.