The Designated Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Katy Astle

The Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads are Miss Amy Howe and Mrs Chantelle Legg 

The Safeguarding Governor is Mrs Heather Pardoe

You can contact the DSLs via the school office: sgps.office@coastalpartnership.co.uk 

The safety and wellbeing of our children is something that we take very seriously at St George’s Primary School and Pre-School. We are proactive in this area and work with other agencies, such as the social care and safeguarding teams, the police and health representatives through multi-agency partnership often led by the school.  The approach we use is illustrated below, and is used by all partner agencies across Dorset.  

The purpose of taking this co-ordinated approach is to help identify a child’s degree of need, ensure support is offered by the right agencies, at the right time and prevent their needs escalating to a higher level. It will help identify when referrals to specialist Children’s Social Care services are required.

We ensure that our school site and practices are secure and safe and all our staff are trained to be alert to ensure that we keep our children safe whilst educating them. 

We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, children and staff at school. 

We always:

• Ensure we practice safe recruitment in checking the suitability of staff and volunteers to work with children.
• Raise awareness of child protection issues and equip children with the skills needed to keep them safe.
• Develop and implement procedures for identifying and reporting cases, or suspected cases, of abuse.
• Support pupils who have been abused in accordance with the agreed safeguarding plan
• Establish a safe environment in which children can learn and develop.
• Establish and maintain an ethos where children feel secure and are encouraged to talk and are listened to.
• Ensure that children know that there are adults in the school who they can approach if they are worried or are in difficulty.
• Plan activities and opportunities which equip children with the skills they need to stay safe from abuse
• Include in the curriculum material which will help children develop realistic attitudes to the responsibilities of adult life – where appropriate for the age of the child.
• Ensure that wherever possible, every effort will be made to establish effective working relationships with parents/carers and colleagues from other agencies.
• We are compliant with 'sharing of information' guidance.

Operation Encompass

We are an Operation Encompass School, which means that our Safeguarding Leads (also known as 'Key Adults') are trained to receive notifications from the police about domestic abuse incidents so we can support our children and families. 

For more information about Operation Encompass, view the Handbook: 

If you are worried about the safety or wellbeing of a child or young person who lives in Dorset and this is outside of school hours, then you can call the Family Support and Advice Line (FSAAL):