Safeguarding at Ravenswood

At Ravenswood Community Primary School, we are vigilant in keeping all children safe from harm and are committed to safeguarding our children. All adults, including staff, parents and governors, have a shared responsibility to safeguard children; any concerns, no matter how small, should be shared with the Designated Safeguarding Lead.  

If anyone has concerns about a member of staff, these should be reported to Mrs Kent. If the concern is about Mrs Kent, the concern should be reported to the Chair of Governors, Mr Robert Smith or the police on 101.

Anyone can make a referral about their concerns directly to: Customer First: 0808 800 4005 or the Police on 101.

• Our Lead Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) is Mrs M Cartwright. 
• Our Safeguarding Governor is Mrs V Mushati.  
• Our Alternate Designated Safeguarding Leads (ADSL) are Miss S Cook (OSL and ADSL), Mrs H Kent (SPOC and ADSL), Mrs N Ritchie (CiC and ADSL), Mrs L Thurston (ADSL), Mrs S Milburn (ADSL), Mr N Hynes (ADSL) and Mrs C Hallett (Family Worker).

PREVENT

The Prevent strategy, published by the Government in 2011, is part of our overall counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST. The aim of the Prevent strategy is to reduce the threat to the UK from terrorism by stopping people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.  In the Act this has simply been expressed as the need to ‘prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’.  The 2011 Prevent strategy has three specific strategic objectives:

• respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism and the threat we face from those who promote it
• prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and ensure that they are given appropriate advice and support
• work with sectors and institutions where there are risks of radicalisation that we need to address.
• Our lead PREVENT officer is Mrs M Cartwright. Our alternate PREVENT officers are Mrs H Kent and Miss S Cook.