Safeguarding
Chantry Primary Academy is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for pupils, staff and visitors and to promoting a climate where children and adults will feel confident about sharing any concerns that they may have about their own safety and that of others. Chantry Primary Academy fully recognises its responsibilities for safeguarding children and child protection is of paramount importance.
Our Ethos
We promote an ethos where our pupils feel secure, are encouraged to talk and are listened to and can be confident that someone will listen. We want children at our schools to feel able to talk freely to any member of staff or regular visitor (defined as adults who visit the school on a regular basis representing another organisation but working in partnership with the school, this might include a community, voluntary or statutory organisation) if they are worried or concerned about something. All staff and volunteers will, through induction and training, know how to recognise concerns about a child and know how to manage a disclosure made by a child. We will not make promises to a child we cannot keep and we will not keep secrets. Every child will be told, by the adult they have chosen to talk to, what happens next.