SAFEGUARDING

Safeguarding is defined as :

• protecting children and learners from maltreatment
• preventing impairment of children’s and learners’ health or development
• ensuring that children and learners are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
• undertaking that role so as to enable those children and learners to have optimum life chances and to enter adulthood successfully.

(Children’s Act 2004, “Working Together to Safeguard Children” )

Everyone working with students at our school treats learner’s welfare as paramount. Monmouth Comprehensive School values every individual as having equal worth and has a culture and ethos where young people are listened to and included. We promote the welfare of students by ensuring  we create and maintain a safe learning environment for our students. Where there are child welfare concerns we take action to address them in partnership with other agencies where appropriate. Our curriculum contributes by developing the student’s understanding, awareness and resilience along with their sense of self, their independence and their interdependence.

The school’s approach to building, maintaining and repairing relationships is informed by our restorative mindset and our core values: Respect, Freedom with Responsibility, Independence, Security and Success.

For any further information on Safeguarding please speak to Mr A. Williams (Deputy Headteacher) at the school.

1. Ofsted adopts the definition of safeguarding used in the Children Act 2004 and in the Department for Education and Skills (now DfE) guidance document Working together to safeguard children, which focuses on safeguarding and promoting children’s and learners’ welfare.