Protecting Every Step

Excellent safeguarding provision involves creating a safe environment, implementing robust policies and procedures, and establishing strong partnerships with all stakeholders. By prioritising the safety and well-being of students, schools can ensure that their students thrive in a secure and nurturing environment. Djanogly Learning Trust (DLT) aims to establish a culture of operational consistency, trust-wide communication, and continuous development in safeguarding practices.

Audit and Quality Assurance

Reviewing Reality

Establishing measures to guarantee the security and strength of safeguarding practices.

Unified Documentation

At Djanogly Learning Trust we employ a unified system for documenting and managing safeguarding issues.

Consistent Practices

Equip all staff with the necessary information to comprehend what constitutes a safeguarding concern, ensuring uniformity in practices for documenting concerns across our whole Trust.

Knowledge Transfer and People Development

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Continuous Review

To regularly review to ensure continued best practice.

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Designate Pathways

To establish designated pathways for offering support and guidance to safeguarding colleagues throughout the Trust.

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Dedicated Support

Individuals tasked with safeguarding have support resources.

Systems and Processes Prevention

Tailored Safeguarding

Schools adopt a tailored approach to safeguarding, aiming to recognise and prevent harm.

Vigilant Culture

There exists a vigilant culture of acknowledging 'it can occur here,' emphasising early intervention and prevention, evident across all schools.

Comprehensive Training

All personnel receive suitable training pertaining to their specific safeguarding duties and/or obligations.

Safeguarding Data and Intelligence

Combined Perspective

The Trust utilises several individual systems that offer a combined perspective on safeguarding patterns throughout DLT, subsequently reported to Trustees.

Routine Analysis

Safeguarding information undergoes routine analysis, reporting, and discussion across all hierarchical levels.

Stakeholder Engagement

DLT engages with schools and other essential stakeholders to recognise trends and concerns related to safeguarding.

Board Reporting

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Transparent Accountability

To establish a transparent framework of accountability for safeguarding throughout the Trust and its schools, ensuring efficient reporting at every level.

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Precise Risk Identification

To establish a transparent framework of accountability for safeguarding throughout the Trust and its schools, ensuring efficient reporting at every level.

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Statutory Compliance

DLT and schools adhere to the statutory requirements detailed in Keeping Children Safe in Education and Working Together to Safeguard Children.

External Scrutiny

Systematic Audits

DLT employs a systematic method for conducting audits and reviews within schools and across the Trust, encompassing all aspects of safeguarding.

External Reviews

External reviews verify the effectiveness of safeguarding measures.

Trust Support

Notable Referrals

Offering guidance to DSLs regarding safeguarding advice, assisting in referrals related complex cases to external agencies, and facilitating engagement in CPD programs.

Serious Behavioural Incidents

Offering guidance concerning behaviour strategies, assisting schools with children vulnerable to exclusion or those with a history of fixed-term exclusions, and supporting the use of physical interventions and strategies to reduce exclusions.

Individual Support

Providing assistance to schools and families regarding vulnerable pupils who need individual support and adaptations.

Allegations Against Staff

Reviewing systems to aid in addressing minor concerns and referral procedures, and providing guidance and instruction around the LADO process.