Our governors and staff team are committed to safeguarding the children in our care. The school has clear procedures where a child is considered to be at risk of harm and reserves the right to share information with external agencies.

Our Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Amy Pearce

Deputy Safeguarding Leads:  Mrs Maritza Agudelo, Mrs Louisa Fanstone and Mrs Sarah Launchbury-Rainey

These staff can all be contacted through by emailing office.3181@benson.oxon.sch.uk or phoning the school on 01491 202502

Safeguarding Governor: Mrs Sara Ogden

The school has a safeguarding email for urgent concerns that is monitored out of school hours:

safeguarding@benson.oxon.sch.uk

We have a number of policies and procedures in place that contribute to our safeguarding commitment.  Please see the files here for more information.

Safeguarding Curriculum

We teach children how to stay safe through our SCARF (Safety, Caring, Achievement, Resilience, Friendship) curriculum as well as utilising other specific support such as NSPCC workshops and online safety through our Computing curriculum.

For more information, please click on the document below.

​If you are concerned about the safety or well-being of a child please speak directly to one of the named designated members of staff.   

Parents/carers/members of the public can also contact the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) 0345 050 7666.

The NSPCC website is recommended for information for parents/carers regarding keeping children safe.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/

Children can contact Childline  0800 1111   childline.org.uk

For an illustrated guide for children explaining how different people and organisations work together to help, support and protect them (working together to safeguard children), click here.

Prevent Extremism

The prevent strategy is part of the UK Counter Terorism Strategy (CONTEST) published by the Government in 2011.

Prevent has three main objectives to :

1. respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism

2. support vulnerable people and prevent people from being drawn into terrorism

3. work with key sectors and institutions and address risks

It focuses on early intervention before any illegal activity takes place. The aim is to reduce the likelihood of individuals who support a violent extremist ideology of becoming terrorists. Find out more about the Prevent Strategy below.