Westhouses Primary School
Staff and professionals
This page is for school staff and professions. If you are a parent, please check out our 'policies and information' or 'online safety' pages under the safeguarding tab.
Updates to the DDSCP Procedures and Documents Library:
Useful links, evidence and resources:
- Missingpeople.org
- Persistent absence for unauthorised reasons
- Managing risk and trauma after online sexual offending
- Evidence on pornography's influence on harmful sexual behaviour among children
- Health advisory on social media use in adolescence
- Let's talk about anxiety
- Mental health resources
- When to call the police - NSPCC guidance
- Early Years:
- Online safety tips for parents of pre-school children 0-5 Year Olds
- Safeguarding children and protecting professionals in early years settings: online safety guidance for practitioners
Derbyshire Early Years Improvement Service - April 26.
Guidance’s- DFE/Government Guidance’s
- Searching, Screening and Confiscation
- Regulated activity in relation to children: factual note by HM Government Useful supplementary document to explain regulated activity, supervised and unsupervised activity and by definition.
- Working together to Safeguard children Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children.
- What to do if you're worried a child is being abused useful document for all staff and for induction training particularly, non-teaching staff who have contact with children, of note is the useful resources page is now out of date.
- Information Sharing Whole document, all staff including governors have a working knowledge.
- Prevent Duty - an introduction for those with safeguarding responsibilities
- Prevent Whole document for leads/senior leadership.
- Sharing Nude/Semi Nude Images Schools and Colleges- Responding to Incidents and Safeguarding Young People A comprehensive guide to dealing with incidents in school.
- Controlling Access into Schools . An excellent tool to use when considering restricting, control or barring individuals including parents off the school site.
- Elected Home Education Guidance to be made familiar with all senior leaders and staff who are involved in discussions with parents around EHE, includes a guidance for parents.
- DfE Children Missing Education Statutory guidance for local authorities Whole document, all leads/senior leads must be aware of.
- The Designated teacher for looked after and previously looked after children Whole document for the LAC/Virtual school lead in the school/college.
- Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment between children in schools/colleges Advice for all staff in schools/colleges- whole document for all staff to be familiar with.
- Criminal Exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: County Lines Home office county lines guidance, whole document and useful for training purposes.
- Mental health and Behaviour in schools How schools can support pupils whose mental health problems manifest themselves in behaviour.
- Behaviour in schools
- Meeting digital and technology standards in schools and colleges
- Threshold Document
- Teaching Online Safety in School
- Derby and Derbyshire Education Providers Stopping Domestic Abuse Together (SDAT) Guidance
- Young Carers guidance
Policies/Guidance’s DCC/Schools own
Our full safeguarding portfolio can be found in our school office. If you would like to see it, please ask the office staff.
Online support and links
Training for staff, volunteers and governors
If you see some training you would like to book on S4S, please speak to the school office. S4S training link Staff have a login to Noodlenow for training Noodlenow login page . Governors have a login to the NGA Learning Links Learning Links login. If you do not know your login, please speak to the school office.
- Prevent
- FGM
- Protecting Children from Child Sexual Exploitation
- Derbyshire bite size data protection training
- Derbyshire cybersecurity information
Annual Safeguarding Refresher Training 2025-2026
Annual Safeguarding Refresher Training 2024-2025
Welcome to this years annual safeguarding training bought to you by the Safeguarding in Education Team in Bristol. This is a video to support Designated Safeguarding Leads to fulfil their duties in statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education to provide annual safeguarding training to their staff.
Annual Safeguarding Refresher Training 2023-2024
