St Mary's RC Primary School

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff, visitors and volunteers to share this commitment. If you do have any concerns regarding the safeguarding of any of our pupils, please contact one of our designated safeguarding leads.

St Mary's RC Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We have a number of policies and procedures in place that contribute to our safeguarding commitment, including our Behaviour Policy.

Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies, when there are concerns about a child's welfare. We will ensure that our concerns about our pupils are discussed with parents/carers first, unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child's welfare.

We actively support the Government's Prevent Agenda to counter radicalism and extremism.

Please view our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy using this link.

Safeguarding Team at St Mary's

Designated Safeguarding Officer: Mrs Clerkin and Mrs Morgan

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Officer: Mrs Peck, Mrs Birch and Miss Rowan

Designated Safeguarding Governor: Mr Aston

Well Being Lead: Mrs C O'Leary

Caritas Social Worker: Mrs Tetlow

Attendance and Family Liaison Officer: Mrs Birch

Internet Safety Officer: Mr Barratt

Health and Safety Officer: Mrs Leigh and Mr Maguire

Educational Visits Coordinator : Mrs Morgan

Health and Safety

School Business Manager - Mrs Leigh

Site Manager - Mr Maguire

Head Teacher - Mrs Clerkin

Deputy Head Teacher - Mrs Morgan

Emergency First Aid at Work

Mrs Amos

Mrs Boland

Miss Fairbrother

Miss Hannon

Mrs Hawksworth

Mrs McKay

Mrs Mitchell

Mrs Moxam

Mrs Partington

Miss Smith

Ms Walsh

Mrs Woolfe

Miss Green

Outdoor and Forest School First Aid (inc. Paediatric First Aid)

Mrs Clarke

Ms Murtin

Paediatric First Aiders

Mrs Morgan

Ms Murtin

Mrs Clarke

Mrs Hanson

Mrs Kelly

Miss Pszenycziak

Miss Stubbs

Mrs Whipp

Mrs Jackson

Miss Fox

Fire Wardens

Fire Co-ordinators
Mrs Leigh	Remain in office. Prevent anyone entering the main school entrance. Co-ordinate. Phone emergency services as necessary.
Mrs Leavy/Miss Haughton	Locate the incident and check for signs of fire.

Fire Wardens
Sweep Zone	Fire Warden	Deputy Fire Warden
KS1	Mrs Clerkin	Mrs Ellis
UKS2/Year 6 Intervention Room/Junior Hall/Meeting Room	Mrs Morgan	Mrs Ruffle
Early Years	Mrs Jackson	Miss Stubbs
LKS2	Mrs Hanson	Ms Rowan
Staff Room/Staff Toilets/Co-ordinator	Mrs Leigh

Safeguarding Resources

Please select from the documents below.

	Operation Encompass Oldham for Schools with Appendices 1 to 5	[pdf 377KB]
	Teaching online safety in schools	Link
	This non-statutory guidance outlines how schools can ensure their pupils understand how to stay safe and behave online as part of existing curriculum requirements.
	Working together to safeguard children	Link
	Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, support and protect children.
	Information sharing to safeguard children and young people	Link
	Statutory information sharing duty guidance for practitioners and organisations providing safeguarding and welfare services for children and young people.
	Keeping children safe in education	Link
	Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
	Safeguarding disabled children	Link
	Departmental advice setting out how agencies and professionals should work together to safeguard the welfare of disabled children.
	Children missing education: statutory guidance for local authorities and schools	Link
	This guidance is statutory for local authorities in England and is intended to help them fulfil their legal duty under section 436A of the Education Act 1996 to make arrangements to identify, as far as it is possible to do so, children missing education (CME).
	Working together to improve school attendance	Link
	How schools, academy trusts, governing bodies and local authorities should maintain high levels of school attendance.
	Safeguarding Oldham - Educational Neglect Guidance 2026	Link
	Guidance for professionals working with children and young people who have concerns about attendance and punctuality.

Safeguarding Training

Safeguarding Training	Who	Frequency
Designated Safeguarding Training/Lead	Head Teacher Assistant Head Deputy Head Family and Attendance Officer	Minimum every 2 years
LSCB Child Protection	All Staff	Every 3 years
School Based INSET	Whole School	Every year
Prevent Duty e channel	All Staff Governors New Staff	Every 3 years On induction
Safer Recruitment	Head Teacher Deputy Head School Business Manager Governors	Every 3 years
Fire Warden	Head Teacher Deputy Head School Business Manager All Fire wardens Site Manger	Every 3 years
Fire Awareness	All staff	Every 3 years
First Aid at Work	All First Aiders (8 in total)	Every 3 years
Paediatric First Aid	Early Years Staff	Every 3 years
Asthma and Anaphylaxis	All teaching staff	Minimum every 3 years and as required
Child specific health conditions	Key Staff disseminated as appropriate	As required
Mental Health and Well Being (Healthy Young Minds)	All teaching staff and children	Every Year
Health and Safety Training	All staff New Staff	Every 3 years On induction

Resources

Please select from the links below.

	Oldham Safeguarding Children Partnership
	Oldham Council - Child Protection
	Oldham Council - Safeguarding in Early Years
	End the Fear - Greater Manchester Against Domestic Abuse
	Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
	Prevent Duty Guidance for England and Wales - April 2021
	Safeguarding people at risk of being drawn into terrorism, or extremism leading to terrorism
	Family Lives - Keeping your child safe

Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)

The Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) is Oldham’s first point of contact for:

safeguarding referrals to protect children, young people or adults from harm, abuse or neglect; and
care and support services which help individuals or families to meet their long-term needs, access the Early Help Service and mental health support, prevent or delay needs becoming more serious, lead independent lives and reduce dependence on public services.

A range of organisations make up the MASH including:

Social services for children and adults
Greater Manchester Police
Early Help
Education and Early Years
Pennine Care and Bridgewater NHS Trusts
Healthy Young Minds Oldham
Positive Steps
National Probation Service
Greater Manchester & Cheshire Community Rehabilitation Company

Where there is a concern, these organisations share information to decide the most appropriate intervention to prevent harm to the person. This gives a full understanding of the situation so we are able to respond quickly and effectively.

The MASH can also:

Help with caring for someone or enabling them to live at home, or
Support with problems such as housing, finance, family relationships, giving up smoking or weight management.

If you suspect a person is at immediate risk of harm call 999 and speak to the Police.

You can contact the MASH from 8:40am – 5:00pm on Monday – Friday.

Telephone: 0161 770 7777
Email: adult.mash@oldham.gov.uk (adults)
Email: child.mash@oldham.gov.uk (children)
Fax: 0161 770 1576