Safeguarding, Health & Safety and Promoting Welfare

The health, safety and welfare of all the people who work or learn at Wolsey House Primary School are of paramount importance. We are committed to providing a safe, secure, inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone, in which children can learn and flourish.

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Our approach is child-centred and we consider at all times what is in the best interests of each child. We expect all staff, governors, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment.

Safeguarding includes:

• providing help and support as soon as problems emerge;
• protecting children from maltreatment at home, at school, in the community and online;
• preventing impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development;
• ensuring that children grow up receiving safe and effective care; and
• taking action to enable every child to achieve the best possible outcomes.

We recognise that safeguarding concerns may involve adults or other children and that different forms of harm can overlap. We are alert to abuse, neglect and exploitation; domestic abuse; child-on-child abuse; online harm; criminal and sexual exploitation; radicalisation; and prejudice-based harm, including racism, faith-based prejudice and other forms of discrimination.

Our Governing Body, Headteacher, Designated Safeguarding Lead and staff fulfil their safeguarding, health and safety responsibilities in accordance with legislation, statutory guidance and Leicester’s local multi-agency safeguarding arrangements.

Reporting Safeguarding Concerns

All safeguarding concerns are taken seriously and acted upon promptly.

Staff record concerns securely using a child protection online management system (CPOMS). All concerns and disclosures are reported to a member of the safeguarding team immediately; recording something on CPOMS does not replace an urgent verbal report.

Visitors and volunteers must report any concern directly to the Designated Safeguarding Lead or a Deputy DSL before leaving the school. The names and photographs of our safeguarding team can be found at the bottom of this page and are displayed around school.

Child Protection

The school has a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of its pupils. If the school has cause to be concerned about the safety or welfare of a child, we will follow our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and the locally agreed safeguarding procedures.

School staff do not carry out child protection investigations. We will, however, listen to children, record concerns, gather relevant factual information and work with other agencies. Where appropriate, information may be shared with the local authority Children's Social Care, health services, the police or other relevant professionals, and a safeguarding referral may be made.

We will normally work openly with parents and carers and inform them when we need to seek additional support or make a referral. However, we may share information or make a referral without first seeking consent where doing so is necessary to safeguard a child. Parents or carers may not be informed in advance if this could place a child or another person at greater risk, cause an avoidable delay or prejudice a police or Children’s Social Care investigation.

Our actions will always be guided by the welfare and best interest of the child.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Female Genital Mutilation is illegal in the United Kingdom and is a form of child abuse and as such is dealt with under the school's Child Protection/Safeguarding Policy. 

Teachers have a personal statutory duty to report directly to the police if, in the course of their professional work, a girl under the age of 18 tells them that FGM has been carried out on her, or they observe physical signs which appear to show that it has been carried out. Teachers should not examine a child to determine whether FGM has taken place.

Concerns that a child may be at risk of FGM, or suspected cases that do not meet the mandatory reporting duty, must be reported immediately to the Designated Safeguarding Lead or a Deptuy DSL so that the school's safeguarding procedures can be followed.

To make a mandatory FGM report, telephone the police on 101.

In an emergency, telephone 999.  

Prevent Duty

Wolsey House Primary School has due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. Prevent forms part of our wider safeguarding responsibilities.

Our approach includes:

• promoting a safe and respectful school culture;
• helping children develop critical thinking and online safety skills;
• ensuring staff can recognise and respond to possible signs of susceptibility to radicalisation;
• assessing and responding proportionately to local risks; and
• seeking appropriate advice and support, including through the Channel process, where necessary.

Safeguarding children from radicalisation is approached in the same way as safeguarding them from other forms of harm.

Attendance and children absent from education

Regular attendance supports children’s education, safety and wellbeing. Attendance and punctuality are recorded and the school follows up unexplained absences promptly. Reasons will be sought for all absence or lateness. Parents will always be informed of concerns around attendance and lateness at the earliest point. If attendance concerns continue the school will refer concerns to the Education Welfare Officer.

Where absence is repeated, prolonged or unexplained, we will consider whether this indicates a safeguarding concern and act in accordance with safeguarding procedures.

Helping children keep themselves safe

Parents/carers send their children to school with the expectation that the school provides a secure environment for their children to flourish. A wide range of measures are in place to ensure that children are protected. We ensure that children learn in a safe, caring and enriching environment. We teach children, in an age-appropriate way, how to:

• keep themselves and others safe;
• recognise safe, respectful and healthy relationships;
• seek help from a trusted adult;
• stay safe online;
• recognise bullying, discrimination, exploitation and inappropriate behaviour; and
• understand that abuse is never their fault and that they will be listened to and supported.

Please visit our Safeguarding Documents page to read our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and other relevant policies. If you have a question or concern about safeguarding, please contact the school and ask to speak to a member of the safeguarding team.

If a child is in immediate danger, telephone the police on 999. Concerns about a child living in Leicester can also be reported to Leicester City Children’s Social Care/Duty and Advice Service on 0116 454 1004.

Recent key safeguarding training at Wolsey House 

Whole school safeguarding training (LCC)	21st August 2026
Whole school PREVENT training	22nd and 23rd August 2025
Whole school online safety training (SWGFL)	15th October 2025
NSPCC assemblies (Year 2 - Year 6)	September 2026
Mandatory Operation Encompass training – Mr Powell	19th January 2026
Safer recruitment training – Mr Ismail and Mrs Cooper-Marsh	4th February 2026
REIGN Survivor-led CSA/CSE – Mr Powell	25th February 2026
Whole school ACE INSET	25th February 2026
Safer recruitment training – Mr M Peatfied (Chair of Governors)	14th April 2026
Trauma informed practices for primary staff – Mr J Baker	15th April 2026