Safeguarding is

EVERYONE’S

responsibility!

At Brampton Primary Academy, we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children. We expect all members of the Brampton community and visitors to share this commitment.

Keeping Children Safe in Education

Children includes everyone under the age of 18.

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as:

·  protecting children from maltreatment

·  preventing the impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development

·  ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care, and

·  taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.

Indicators of Abuse and Neglect:

Abuse: a form of maltreatment of a child. Somebody may abuse or neglect a child by inflicting harm or by failing to act to prevent harm.

Physical abuse: a form of abuse which may involve hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning or scalding, drowning, suffocating or otherwise causing physical harm to a child.

Emotional abuse: the persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and adverse effects on the child’s emotional development.

Sexual abuse: involves forcing or enticing a child or young person to take part in sexual activities, not necessarily involving violence, whether or not the child is aware of what is happening. The activities may involve physical contact.

Neglect: the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child’s health or development.

Keeping Children Safe in Education, DfE (2023)

Support for children and families in Bexley

At Brampton we work in conjunction with Children's Social Care in Bexley to offer support for our families. 

Support can come in many forms:

• Family Wellbeing (Early Help)
• Child in Need
• Children with Disabilities
• Children at Risk of Harm
• Children in Care
• Young Adults Leaving our Care

If you need support, we are always here to help you. Please contact the school office via admin@bramptonacademy.org and ask to speak with Miss Hannabuss-Penn (Inclusion Lead & DSL).

If you have concerns about a child/family in the school which is not your own, you can also contact the school and we are happy to meet with you. Alternatively you can contact the MASH (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub).

For more information please look at the following link: https://www.bexley.gov.uk/services/health-and-social-care/social-care-for-children/reporting-concerns-about-child/worried-about-child 

What is Family Wellbeing?

The Family Wellbeing team aims to provide help to families early, to prevent difficulties becoming worse.

The team works with children and families from 0 to 18 years old, where there is one or more of the following:

• the permanent exclusion of a child from school
• the risk of school exclusion
• parental or carer mental ill health
• parental learning disability
• parental domestic abuse
• parental drug or alcohol misuse
• low-level neglect
• physical chastisement

The team has family key workers who work directly with children and families, providing advice, help and support, they will work with families up to three months and where more intensive support is identified a maximum of up to 6 months.

Bexley Local Offer:

Supporting Documents: