Safeguarding

All staff, governors and volunteers in the school, both teaching and non-teaching, are required, by law, to undertake safeguarding training regularly and we are vigilant in providing that training and rigorous in checking that all colleagues’ knowledge and understanding remains current.

Key members of staff, including the Heads of House access higher levels of Safeguarding training in order to ensure that more complex issues can always be addressed with confidence. We have a Safeguarding Team comprising teaching and non-teaching, headed by the Designated Safeguarding Lead, who is a member of the Senior Leadership Team.

This team is the key point of contact when a young person is believed to be at risk of harm. If you have a concern about a young person, please contact: safeguarding@cps.hants.sch.uk

Part of the school’s remit by law is to try to equip young people with information that will help them to keep themselves safe. The Personal Social and Health curriculum is one vehicle we use to deliver information that will enable students to adopt safe practices; the ICT department delivers lessons relating to online safety and other curricular areas deliver modules relating to personal health and wellbeing. 

Parents/carers are our key partners in securing the best outcomes for our students. Sometimes, we need to draw on the support and expertise outside agencies to broker support for students and their families. Under such circumstances, we will seek advice from Children’s Services and complete an IARF (Inter Agency Referral Form). The Multi-agency team will then advise the school about help that may be available to the young person and their family through the Early Help Hub and/or Children’s Services depending on the level of need. Calthorpe Park is incredibly fortunate, in addition to our extensive pastoral support offer to also have two Family Liaison Officers based within our Safeguarding Team. 

We work closely with the Hampshire Safeguarding Children’s Partnership and make referrals to Children’s Services and other agencies through this mechanism. 

Our safeguarding practices are regularly scrutinised by the Governing Body. We report to the governors about our Safeguarding work and systems and liaise regularly with the governor whose remit is Safeguarding. Governors can be contacted via clerktothegovernors@cps.hants.sch.uk