Safeguarding Children
- Cwmbach Community Primary School has at its priority, the protection and wellbeing of all pupils in the school.
- In our school the HeadTeacher has overall responsibility for child protection matters and acts as a source of advice and support to other school staff.
- Our school also has a nominated child protection governor, who has to ensure that the school has a child protection policy in place, which is consistent with the AA Wales Child Protection Procedures (2002), that all staff in the school must follow where there are concerns or suspicions of child abuse.
- If we receive information about a child, which suggest that he/she has been abused or at risk of being abused, we have a duty to refer these concerns to the Children's Services, or the police without delay. We have no discretion in this matter.
- Our first concern as a school is you child's welfare and where we have general concerns, thses will be raised with you and we would want to work with you, to remedy the situtation. However, there may be concerns as listed above, where we have to talk to other agencies before we contact you. Should this be necessary, we want to reassure you that any concernswe have about your child will then be fully discussed with you in a way is consistent with you child's best interest.