Safeguarding and Keeping Your Child Safe

At Orchard Manor School, safeguarding is our priority and underpins everything we do.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As such we work hard to maintain a culture in which staff, pupils, parents and governors feel able to articulate concerns comfortably; safe in the knowledge that effective, appropriate action will be taken.

When there are concerns about a child’s welfare, we will need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies. We will ensure that our concerns about our pupils are discussed with parents/carers first, unless we have reason to believe that doing this would be detrimental to the child's welfare.

We have a number of policies and procedures in place that contribute to our commitment to safeguarding, including our Child Protection Policy which can be viewed via the link to the right.

The Direct Line to our Safeguarding Office is 01626 895973

Our Safeguarding Team:

Interim Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead: Rachel Addison
Email: raddison@orchard-manor.org
Tel: 01626 862363 extension 229

Interim Deputy Safeguarding Lead and Senior Care Officer:  Chris Heard
Email:  cheard@orchard-manor.org
Tel: 01626 862363 x 141  Spartan House,  Upper Campus

Interim Deputy Safeguarding Lead and Assistant Head Teacher: Paul Giles-Phillips
Email: pgphillips@orchard-manor.org
Tel: 01626 862363 x 128 Upper Campus

The Governor with Responsibility for Safeguarding: Gavin Garman
Email: ggarman@orchard-manor.org

Our Level 3 Safeguarding Officers

Nicola Jones Headteacher njones@orchard-manor.org 01626 862363 x 211 Lower Campus 01626 862363 x 123 Upper Campus	Bryan Webster Deputy Head Teacher bwebster@orchard-manor.org 01626 862363 x 223 Lower Campus
Sam Poole Senior Care Officer spoole@orchard-manor.org 01626 862363 x 139 Gala House, Upper Campus	Megan Barr Senior Care Officer mbarr@orchard-manor.org 01626 862363 x 142 Spartan House, Upper Campus
Tia Beddows Family Liaison Officer tbeddow@orchard-manor.org 01626 862363 x 203 Lower Campus	Danielle Sherwood Family Liaison Officer dsherwood@orchard-manor.org 01626 862363 x 203 Lower Campus
Alex Caven PHSE Lead / Teacher acaven@orchard-manor.org Upper Campus	Peter Smith Teacher psmith@orchard-manor.org Upper Campus

Safeguarding at Orchard Manor School is extremely important and it is everyone’s business; It’s up to all of us to keep children and young people safe. Whilst you are on site, we ask you that should you hear, see or read anything which troubles you about a child, do not ignore it, but report your concerns to a member of staff or one of the Designated Safeguarding Officers for Orchard Manor School.

If you have any concerns at any time, speak to any member of staff and never be worried about reporting your concern - ask yourself:

“Would this be good enough for my child?”
If your answer is: “No!”
Then it’s not good enough for the children and young people here!