About Safeguarding

Elise Gribble, the Headteacher at Our Lady's Catholic Primary School in Wellingborough, shares with us her journey of improving her school's safeguarding culture, with a real focus on the child's voice, training for support staff and the importance of being up-skilled herself so that she has the confidence to lead safeguarding which then instilled confidence in others within her school community. 

Luci Clapton, the Head of School at Stimpson Avenue Academy in Northampton, shares with us the importance of raising awareness with all staff that safeguarding is everyone's business and how she has achieved this. She also shares with us the importance of relationship-building with parents and how safeguarding has to be led from the top. 

Ian Fraser, the headteacher at Summerfield Primary School in Milton Keynes, talks to the host and founder of About...Safeguarding, about his school's safeguarding culture.Ian talks about his journey on how he improved his safeguarding culture over the years and how this has impacted his staff, the children and the parents/carers.

Sharon Barnes, the headteacher at Bird's Bush Primary Schools in Tamworth, talks to the host and founder of About...Safeguarding, Madeline Dunckley, about her school's safeguarding culture.
Sharon talks about her school's trauma-informed and emotional approach to safeguarding and discusses the importance of DSL teamwork.
This is the first in the About...Safeguarding series of Safeguarding Culture interviews with Headteachers from across the UK.