Safeguarding
Kemsing Primary School is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all students, staff and visitors.
Our Designated safeguarding lead is Mr Tom Hardwick and Mrs Hill and Mrs Purkiss are our deputy designated safeguarding officers. If you have any concerns relating to the wellbeing or safety of a child please speak directly to them.
If you wish to raise a safeguarding issue or concern within school, please contact our safeguarding team via safeguarding@kemsing.kent.sch.uk
Please follow the link below to visit our policies page where you will find our Safeguarding policies.
Other useful contact numbers:
Local Authority Designated Officers - 0300 041 0888, E: kentchildrenslado@kent.gov.uk
Emergency Out of Hours - Integrated Front Door - 0300 041 1111 or the police
Prevent - 0207 340 7264
NSPCC Reporting Line - 0808 800 5000
NSPCC Whistleblowing Line - 0800 028 0285
Childline - 0800 1111
Area Safeguarding Advisor - Anup Kandola - 0300 041 7865, E: anup.kandola@theeducationpeople.org
Safeguarding Admin Support - Rachel Unsworth - 0300 041 2445
Parent Volunteers
Parent volunteers are required to have a full DBS check. Please contact the school office by email (E: office@kemsing.kent.sch.uk) for more information. All helpers will attend safeguarding training with one of the designated safeguarding leads.
Outside Organisations
We work with outside organisations and agencies to enhance our safeguarding procedures, such as Kent Police Operation Encompass and the NSPCC.
Digital Worry Box - Are you a child and worried about something?
If you are worried about something that has happened, online or in person, it is really important that you share it with a trusted adult so they can help you. In school we have a Worry Box/Monster in every classroom as well as outside the Hive. We check our worry boxes/monsters daily to make sure that if anyone has a worry, that we deal with it straight away. Our Digital Worry Box works exactly the same as this. If you have a worry and you would rather send it digitally, all you have to do is pop in your name, your email address (or that of a trusted adult), write your worry and then press send. As soon as you have done that Mr Hardwick will receive your worry in an email. In some instances Mr Hardwick may need to speak to other professionals about your worry to make sure that you are safe, happy and healthy.