Child Protection and Safeguarding
Child Protection & Safeguarding at Furze Platt Senior School
The wellbeing and safety of our students and staff is our number one priority. As such, we take all safeguarding and child protection issues very seriously.
We are committed to ensuring the welfare of all students and require all staff, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment.
The school will not tolerate any discriminatory, rude, aggressive or threatening behaviour to any staff, students or any member of our wider community.
Prior to employment all staff (paid or voluntary) are DBS checked for their suitability to work with children and young people. For more information on the Disclosure Barring Service, click here.
All staff at the school are provided with mandatory ‘initial’ safeguarding training when they join the school. This is the followed up with annual ‘refresher’ training. Both initial and refresher training sessions cover roles and responsibilities of staff, signs to look out for and what to do in the event of a concern. All safeguarding training is led by the Designated Safeguarding Lead or one of the Deputies. Staff also complete online 'Safeguarding in Education', provided by www.childprotectioncompany.com every two years.
The school ensures that all staff have read both the DfE’s “Keeping Children Safe in Education (2022)” guidance and the school’s Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy.
Safeguarding Team:
The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) is Mr J Sheppard (Deputy Headteacher)
Contact details: email: james.sheppard@furzeplatt.net tel: 01628 625308 x123
The Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads (DDSL) are:
Key Stage |
Head of Key Stage |
Year |
Head of Progress |
Pastoral Manager |
3 |
Miss L Lewis (Assistant Headteacher) laura.lewis@furzeplatt.net 01628 625308 x127 |
7 |
Miss A Towell 01628 625308 x235 |
Miss S Gumbs 01628 625308 x151 |
8 |
Mr N Jones nicolas.jones@furzeplatt.net 01628 625308 x295 |
Mrs J Barney jemma.barney@furzeplatt.net 01628 625308 x144 |
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9 |
Mr C Djaelani christopher.djaelani@furzeplatt.net 01628 625308 x187 |
Mrs B Harper beth.harper@furzeplatt.net 01628 625308 x164 |
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4 |
Mr J Dollery (Assistant Headteacher) james.dollery@furzeplatt.net 01628 625308 x133
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10 |
Mrs L Bull 01628 625308 x381 |
Miss L Barney larna.barney@furzeplatt.net 01628 625308 x417 |
11 |
Miss L Sharp 01628 625308 x213 |
Mrs M Carpenter maxine.carpenter@furzeplatt.net 01628 625308 x145 |
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5 |
Mr P Ging (Assistant Headteacher) 01628 625308 x601 |
12 |
Miss K Inwood 01628 625308 x302 |
Mrs M Pasa 01628 625308 x603 |
13 |
Mr A Colmer 01628 625308 x301 |
Please contact any member of our safeguarding team on 01628 625308 or via email at safeguarding@furzeplatt.net
All visitors to the school are required to sign in at Reception and to read our 'Safeguarding and safety information for all visitors' leaflet.