Safeguarding
Definition and Key Staff
Safeguarding is about ensuring that everyone is safe from harm, safe from bullying, safe from people who could abuse, safe from discrimination and safe from radicalisation.
Mr N. Hanshaw is the Designated Safeguard Lead (DSL)
Mr A. Newnham is the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL)
Ms S. Sleigh-Johnson is an Additional Deputy Safeguarding Lead
Mrs T. Row is an Additional Deputy Safeguarding Lead
Safeguarding Contacts
If you have a safeguarding concern, please use one or more of the contacts below:
E-mail the DSL in the first instance:
Nick Hanshaw (Deputy Headteacher)
office@chalkwellhall-jun.southend.sch.uk
E-mail the Local Authority:
seethesigns@southend.gov.uk
Make a referral to the Southend Child Single Point of Contact Service:
Children’s Social Care, Southend City Council
01702 215007
Out of Hours 0345 606 1212
Make a referral to the DfE's Counter-Extremism Division at:
counter.extremism@education.gov.uk
Useful Links:
Extremism and Radicalisation:
Parents' Guide to Extremism and Radicalisation
DfE's Use of Social Media in Radicalisation
NSPCC Blog on Supporting Children Worried about Terrorism
County Lines:
''County Lines' refers to a type of criminal exploitation in which gangs and organised crime networks exploit children to sell drugs. Often these children are made to travel across counties, and they use dedicated mobile phone ‘lines’ to supply drugs.
Home Office Guidance on County Lines
Private Fostering:
Private fostering arrangements are made, privately, between two parties for a child under the age of 16 (18 if disabled). This arrangement would be with someone who is not a parent or close relative, and is due to last 28 days or more.
For further information, please refer to: