Safeguarding

Together with Cornwall Children’s Trust, Mounts Bay Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children’ is defined as:

• Protecting children and young people from maltreatment
• Preventing the impairment of their health or development
• Ensuring that they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
• Enabling them to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully

The school has a Whole School Safeguarding Policy, and associated procedures in place to ensure that Safeguarding / Child Protection issues are dealt with efficiently and appropriately.

All staff, including our support staff, visitors, and volunteers are made aware of our procedures, and parents / carers are welcome to read the Child Protection and Safeguarding policy by following this link.

We are committed to keeping children and young people safe against Radicalisation and Extremism and parents can click here to read our Prevent Strategy information for parents and carers.

Any form of abuse, whether it is Sexual, Physical, Verbal or Mental is completely unacceptable and we do not tolerate this within our community. Our students are regularly updated on the latest information regarding their safeguarding and are encouraged to contact are wellbeing team to report any worries or safeguarding concerns. We believe in encouraging correct behaviour frameworks by using using Restorative Approaches have been commended by the Restorative Justice Council.

Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child’s welfare. We will always ensure that our concerns about our students are discussed with their parents/carers first, unless there is reason to believe that this is not in the student’s best interests.

If you have a concern about a child, particularly if you think he/she may be suffering or at risk of suffering harm, it is your responsibility to share the information promptly with:

We offer in house specialist teams and external experts to provide the latest information, advice and guidance on all aspects of our students personal development and well being who can be contacted directly from student iPads.