Safeguarding at St Laurence is everyone’s responsibility.
If any parents, families or visitors have concerns about the welfare or safety of any children from St Laurence in Thanet CofE Junior Academy, please contact any of our Safeguarding leaders without delay or the Integrated Front Door advice service on 03000 4111111 during office hours (9am – 5pm), contact the out of hours Emergency Duty Team on 03000 419191.
If there are any safeguarding concerns over the summer please contact us on headteacher@stlaurencejuniors.co.uk
Cause for Concern
Our priority is of course, your child’s welfare and the 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, the school is obliged to follow the Child Protection procedures and inform the Social Services of the concern.
St Laurence in Thanet CofE Junior Academy 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.
Safeguarding Policies
Our up to date policies, including our Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy, Attendance Policy and Online Safety Policy, can all be found on the policies page of our website.
