Safeguarding at Langley

Safeguarding and Child Protection

Langley First School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent, effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, children and staff at school.

School Safeguarding Team

If you want to know more about our procedures, please speak to one of the following:

Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL):

Mrs Carrie Marron Headteacher (0191 6432026)

Deputy DSL: Mrs Karen Towers (0191 6432026)

Mrs Angela Ternent (0191 6432026)

Mrs Laurie Jones (0191 6432026)

Safeguarding Governor: Mr Chris Coady

Chair of Governors: Mr Chris Coady

Online Safety Lead: Ms Abigail Cummings

Learning Mentor / Family Support– Mrs Karen Towers

Cause for Concern

Our first priority is of course your child’s welfare and school is required to take any reasonable action to ensure the safety of its pupils. However there may be occasions when we have reason to be concerned that a child may be subject to ill-treatment, neglect or other forms of abuse. We will ensure that our concerns about a child are discussed with his/her parents/carers first, unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child’s welfare. In this case school is obliged to follow the Child Protection procedures established by the local authority

If you are worried about a child's safety please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Marron (Headteacher and DSL) or Front Door

0345 2000 109

Our Early Help Offer

Langley First School works to provide Early Help to those children and families in the school community with emerging needs, which may not be appropriate for Social Services intervention. Early help means providing support to our children and families as soon as a problem emerges, at any point in a child’s life.

We understand just how complicated family life can be. From time to time, there may be situations where you need some extra help and support.

If things are not right at home, please come and talk to us.

We can help in many ways.

Our Aims

To work to families' strengths...	...especially those of parents / carers and to take time to understand their needs fully.
To focus on preventing problems...	...before they occur and try to offer flexible, responsive support when and where it's required.
To base all we do on evidence…	...of both what is needed and of what works and be brave enough to stop things that are wrong.