Safeguarding

At Elthorne Park High School keeping children and young people safe from harm is our number one priority. This is outlined in our key behaviour and safeguarding message to our students, asking them to be ‘ready, respectful and safe.’

Everyone working in or for our school shares an objective to help keep children and young people safe by contributing to:

Providing a safe environment for young people to learn and develop in our school setting.
Identifying young people who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harm and taking appropriate action with the aim of making sure they are kept safe both at home and in our school setting.

Staff who work with children, especially those who have regular daily contact, have a duty to help protect children from abuse.

At Elthorne Park High School, we work extremely hard to ensure all our students are safeguarded and that their families are supported.

We safeguard and support our students in a number of ways, and we follow key statutory guidance set out by the government in Keeping Children Safe in Education and Ealing Local Authority child protection guidance.

Ealing child protection and safeguarding guidance

Keeping children safe in education 2025 - GOV.UK

We believe that safeguarding and protecting children is everyone’s responsibility
We identify signs of concern immediately
We utilise the latest technologies to ensure fast, accurate, and confidential reporting of any safeguarding concerns to the school's Safeguarding Team, who can respond quickly
We train all our staff to the highest level
We keep all staff updated with new guidance and policies
We monitor attendance thoroughly
We have rigorous monitoring of vulnerable children
We communicate regularly with external agencies
We listen to our students
We care for each other
We have an open culture
We support our students and their families
We teach our students how to keep safe at all times

If you ever want to raise a safeguarding concern, please contact us immediately using safeguarding@ephs.ealing.sch.uk or contact one of our Designated Safeguarding Leads whose details are below.

Families should be aware that Safeguarding (Child Protection) concerns will become the responsibility of one of the following Safeguarding Officers:

Staff member	Role	Contact
Ms K Reeves	Designated Child Protection Officer	Email Ms Reeves
Ms A Crix	Deputy Designated Child Protection Officer Key Stage 5	Email Ms Crix
Mr F Hardy	Deputy Designated Child Protection Officer Key Stage 4	Email Mr Hardy
Mr J Sykes Ms Maddox	Deputy Designated Child Protection Officer Key Stage 3	Email Mr Sykes (Year 8 & Year 9) Email Ms Maddox Year 7
Mr N Laryea	Deputy Designated Child Protection Officer	Email Mr Laryea
Ms R Jackson	EHAP Lead	Email Ms Jackson

Are you worried about the safety of a child?

You can contact us by calling 0208 566 1166 and asking to speak to one of the safeguarding leads or email safeguarding@ephs.ealing.sch.uk

You can also contact Ealing Children’s Services themselves on 0208 825 8000.

If you think there is a risk of immediate harm then don’t delay - call 999.

Should a student have a safeguarding or well-being concern at school, they should approach any member of staff to share that concern. This could be their form tutor, teacher, member of support staff, Year Leader or any adult they feel comfortable talking to.

Communication will then be made with one of our Designated Safeguarding Leads to support the child’s needs.