The Whitstable School is committed to safeguarding our students, staff and visitors and expects anyone connected to the school to share this commitment.  The Whitstable School works with outside agencies in line with  Working Together to Safeguard Children 2024 and Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 to promote the safeguarding and wellbeing of all students and staff.

Below is a list of key trained DSL's within school.

Mr J Brewster, Senior Assistant Headteacher: Designated Safeguarding Lead

Deputy Safeguarding Leads:

Mr S Scales, Deputy Headteacher

Mr C Donovan-Bayley, Assistant Headteacher

Ms L Murphy, Assistant Headteacher - SENCo

Miss S Moore, Safeguarding Officer

Other trained DSL's:

Ms Harris, Head of Year 7

Mr Hampton, Head of Year 8

Mr Dowling, Head of Year 9

Ms Beney, Head of Year 10

Ms Comer, Heads of Year 11

Mr Holmes (Headteacher), Mrs Epps (Safeguarding Pastoral Support Manager) and Miss Paddick (Raising Standards Leader)

 

 

Prevent Leads:

Mr J Brewster (Lead DSL) and Miss Moore (Safeguarding Officer)

The aim of Prevent is to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Prevent also extends to supporting the rehabilitation and disengagement of those already involved in terrorism. The Prevent duty requires specified authorities such as education, health, local authorities, police and criminal justice agencies (prisons and probation) to help prevent the risk of people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. It sits alongside long-established safeguarding duties on professionals to protect people from a range of other harms, such as substance abuse, involvement in gangs, and physical and sexual exploitation. The duty helps to ensure that people who are susceptible to radicalisation are supported as they would be under safeguarding processes.