Safeguarding

Safeguarding is about ensuring that children are safe from harm. This means protecting them from maltreatment, preventing any impairment to their health or development, ensuring that they grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care, and taking action, when appropriate, to ensure all children have the best outcomes.  Child protection is part of this definition and refers to activities undertaken to prevent children suffering, or being likely to suffer, significant harm, including abuse and neglect.

All staff are regularly trained, vigilant for signs of harm, and are confident about applying our policies to any potential safeguarding issues.  Our safeguarding and child protection work is led by our Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and our Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (Deputy DSL).

Our safeguarding team - school contacts

The safety of students is our priority at Ysgol Emrys ap Iwan. A culture of vigilance and strong relationships helps staff keep your children safe. 

• Safeguarding Team: Led by a designated safeguarding lead, the team ensures quick and appropriate actions are taken if there are concerns for a pupil’s welfare. 
• Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL): The DSL oversees child protection and safeguarding, ensuring a safe learning environment and that children are not vulnerable to abuse or neglect. 
• Staff Training: Staff receive thorough training on risks facing pupils and know how to respond to concerns. The DSL and deputy DSL receive ongoing professional development. 
• Policies and Procedures: Safeguarding policies are clear, accessible, and understood by all staff, pupils, and parents. Children know how to contact the safeguarding team if needed via posters in school, information from their form tutor and year teams and staff can report concerns using MyConcern.

Out of school contacts

Police:  If you have an immediate concern and believe a child to be at risk of significant harm or danger, please contact the police on:

• 101 (for general concerns) or
• 999 (in an emergency).

Social Services:  Social services provide support for children and families. Social services will get involved if they have worries about a child’s safety and will do what they can to ensure the child is safe and looked after. If you are concerned about a child, you can contact social services on:

• Conwy County Council: 01492 575111 - Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm; 0300 1233079 evenings and weekends.
• Denbighshire County Council: 01824 712200 - Monday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm and Friday 9am to 4.30pm; 0345 0533116 evenings and weekends.

Family Centre:  Canolfan Dinorben:  01492 577757  email:  familysupport.east@conwy.gov.uk

Conwy safe space - ASK FOR ANGELA

Safe Spaces are available in Conwy for any young person who feels threatened. If at any time you feel unsafe, you can walk into any family or leisure centre in Conwy and ask for a Safe Space.

More information here:  www.askforangela.co.uk/

Policies and documents

Safeguarding & Child Protection

Anti-bullying

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Antibullying

Bullying is never acceptable. If you, or somebody else that you know, is suffering because of the way that someone is treating you, please speak to a member of staff. Help will be available.

Everyone at Ysgol Emrys ap Iwan has the right to feel welcome, secure and happy. Only if this is the case will all members of the school community be able to achieve to their maximum potential. Bullying of any sort prevents this being able to happen and prevents equality of opportunity. It is everyone’s responsibility to prevent this happening.

There is no justification whatsoever for bullying behaviour and it should not be tolerated in any form. Differences of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and ability are absolutely repudiated as reasons for bullying.

KiVa - antibullying program

At Ysgol Emrys ap Iwan we have a new program called KiVa, which forms a big part of the school's pastoral programme.

KiVa is an antibullying program that has been developed in the University of Turku, Finland. It is an evidence-based program which means that the effectiveness of KiVa has been proven scientifically. KiVa offers a wide range of concrete tools and materials for schools to tackle bullying.

• www.kivaprogram.net

The Parents’ Guide is part of the KiVa antibullying program, a research-based tool to prevent and reduce bullying problems. The Guide offers information about bullying; what is known from current research and what can be done at home and at school. Cooperation between home and school is important in addressing bullying.