Child Protection & Safeguarding
Key Staff and Roles
Nikki Lamond | Executive Principal and Designated Safeguarding Lead |
Sean Pettit | Acting Head of Academy and Designated Safeguarding Lead |
Dawn Reynolds | SENDCo and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead |
Tricia Docherty | Pastoral Manager and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead |
Sean Pettit | Esafety Officer |
Sean Pettit | Prevent Duty Lead |
Dawn Reynolds | Designated Teacher for Looked After Children |
Tricia Docherty | Attendance Officer |
All members of our safeguarding team can be contacted on 01536 741657, or through admin@danesholmejunioracademy.org or Class Dojo.
For further local information from Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children Board – please click on link below:
Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
Sexual Abuse within Schools – Child on Child Abuse, Sexual Violence and Harassment and Harmful Sexual Behaviour:
Our position as a trust and within all our academies is clear: sexual violence and sexual harassment are never acceptable, will never be tolerated and are not an inevitable part of growing up. Such behaviour will never go unchallenged or become accepted and we remain committed to working openly and transparently to promote mutual respect. We will always act on concerns raised.
Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy has guidance within it around the indicators of child-on-child abuse and harmful sexual behaviour along with our response procedures. All relevant Safeguarding Policies are available on individual academy websites.
All students are taught the Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum.
Children Missing Education
When children are missing education, we follow the statutory government guidance: Children Missing Education.
Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children Partnership guidance: Children Missing from Education.
External support is always available from:
- Childline on 0800 1111
- NSPCC on 0800 136663 or help@nspcc.org.uk
We are aware that a new version of Working Together to Safeguard Children was published in December 2023. Although our policies refer to the older version which was current at the start of the academic year we do of course comply with all the requirements of the new document.