Safeguarding

What is Safeguarding?

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families has a role to play. 

In order to fulfil this responsibility effectively, all at Our Lady of Lincoln Catholic Primary School ensure the approach is child-centred. This means that Our Lady of Lincoln Catholic Primary School consider, at all times, what is in the best interests of the child.

Our Lady of Lincoln Catholic Primary School recognises that no single practitioner can have a full picture of a child’s needs and circumstances. If children and families are to receive the right help at the right time, everyone who comes into contact with them has a role to play in identifying concerns, sharing information and taking prompt action.

 The purpose of safeguarding children is to:

  • Protect them from abuse, maltreatment and exploitation.
  • Prevent anything from harming their health or development.
  • Ensure they can grow up under safe and effective care.
  • Take action to ensure they have the best outcomes in life. 

As part of our Safeguarding offer, Our Lady of Lincoln Catholic Primary School and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi Academy Trust (OLoL CAMT) have a team of people who lead on safeguarding our students, they are our Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs). 

All staff have undergone basic safeguarding training and the following staff members hold specific roles and responsibilities for child protection in school.

Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL) contact details:

Designated Safeguarding Lead

Miss F McGinty

Tel: 01522 527500

Email: enquiries@ourladylincoln.lincs.sch.uk 

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

Mrs A Desforges

Tel: 01522 527500

Email: enquiries@ourladylincoln.lincs.sch.uk

Safeguarding hotline number for OLoL:

Tel: 01158550557

This will be diverted to our safeguarding team between 9am-3pm weekdays, and will send a voicemail to the safeguarding team outside of these times.

Robert Della-Spina (Trust Safeguarding Lead)

Tel: 07356 120899

Email: robert.della-spina@ololcatholicmat.co.uk 

We feel that it is important to support our parents to know how they can protect their children, where to find help and raise concerns if necessary.

As well as skills which are taught within the specific curriculum of Religious Education, PSHE & RSE, please find below contact details for a variety of organisations who support parents and young people if they have any safeguarding, mental health or welfare needs.

  • Parent line 07520 619919: Healthy Family Teams confidential texting service to provide parents and carers advice around feeding, child development, parenting advice and support, emotional health and wellbeing, behaviour difficulties and family health.
  • Health4kids – healthforkids.co.uk; this is an NHS site supporting young children and parents.

All the above websites are for students and their families should they need them.

CAMHS crisis team: (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team) part of the Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

This service is for young people experiencing a mental health crisis. This includes young people who:

  • are at risk of immediate and significant self-harm
  • are an immediate and significant risk to others due to their mental health
  • are being considered for admission to a mental health inpatient unit
  • are in acute psychological or emotional distress that is causing them to not be able to go about their daily activities, such as going to school and looking after themselves

We feel that it is important to support our pupils to know how they can be safe and protected, and to empower them to recognise situations which are unsuitable for them. As well as skills which are taught within the specific curriculum of Religious Education, PSHE & RSE, please find below contact details for a variety of organisations who support young people and their families if they have any safeguarding, mental health or welfare needs.

  • Child line 0800 1111 childline.org.uk; Childline is here to help anyone under 19 in the UK with any issue they’re going through. You can talk about anything. Whether it’s something big or small, trained counsellors are on hand to support you.
  • ChatHealth – 07520 649893: this is a confidential texting servicefor 13 to 19 year olds in Lincolnshire Healthcare NHS Trust.
  • Kooth – kooth.com: Free, safe and anonymous online support for young people
  • Health4teens – healthforteens.co.uk– this is an NHS site supporting young people around emotional wellbeing.
  • Health4kids – healthforkids.co.uk: this is an NHS site supporting young children and parents.
  • Young Minds – youngminds.org.uk: this organisation support young people to have the best Mental Health
  • Jigsaw – https://www.changegrowlive.org/jigsaw-young-person-family-service-nottingham/info: Support people up to the age of 18 with their drug and alcohol use. The service is free and confidential.

If you have any concerns regarding Safeguarding for any child, you can also contact the following Lincolnshire Local Authority Multi Agency teams: