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St Mary's CofE Primary School

Safeguarding

The aim of St Mary's is to safeguard and promote children’s welfare, safety, health and guidance by fostering an honest, open, caring and supportive climate. The children’s welfare is of paramount importance.

 In order to protect and support children there will be an emphasis on:

  • Prevention through a positive and open atmosphere, teaching and pastoral support to students
  • Protection through following agreed procedures, ensuring staff are appropriately recruited, trained and supported to respond appropriately and sensitively to Child Protection concerns
  • Support for children who may have been abused

Safeguarding leads

At St Mary's there is a Designated Safeguarding Leader (DSL) and a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leader (DDSL) who are responsible for ensuring that child protection and safeguarding concerns are handled sensitively, professionally and in ways which support the needs of the child.

 

DSL                    Laura Mayende, Head of School

DDSL:                Anthony David, Executive Head Teacher; Lucy Courtney Diggins, Assistant Head/SENCO

                            

If you would like any more information or would like to speak with either the DSL or DDSL, please contact the school office on 0207 359 1870.

All staff have read and comply with the updates on the current Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026.

Islington Safeguarding Children's Partnership

All Local Authorities have a partnership between three main agencies:

  • Local Authority (Education and Social Services)
  • Health
  • Police

These organisations work together supporting children and families.

The Islington Partnership has a really helpful website that offers a wide range of services and resources to support children, families and professionals:

Safeguarding Partnership

Islington LADO, for safeguarding concerns related to members of staff can be contacted on email by: LADO@islington.gov.uk  

Their website link is here.

Operation Encompass

St Mary has been given the opportunity to take part in a project that will run jointly between Islington schools and the Metropolitan Police.

Operation Encompass is the medium of notifying schools, prior to the start of the next school day, when a child or young person has been exposed to, or involved with, any domestic incident.  We know that children can be significantly physically or emotionally harmed when this is the case and the information received will be used to make sure the right support is available for children and their families in school.

Operation Encompass will ensure that a trained member of the school staff, known as a Designated Safeguarding Lead, can use any information that has been shared, in confidence.  At the same time the school will be able to make provision for possible difficulties experienced by children, or their families, who have been involved in, or exposed to, a domestic abuse incident.

We are keen to offer the best support possible to all our pupils and we believe this will be extremely beneficial for all those involved.

Prevent

The Prevent programme supports people who are at risk of becoming involved with terrorism through radicalisation, to make Islington a safer place.

Seeing signs of radicalisation

The Educate Against Hate website explains any possible signs of radicalisation.

Make a referral

If you're worried someone is at risk of being involved in terrorism or of being exploited:

Call 999 if there is an immediate risk to safety.

 

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