STCM Safeguarding Team:
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mrs Sharon Walker – Associate Senior Leader
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mr James Down – Headteacher
Nominated Safeguarding Governor
Mr Jordan Williams
Points of Contact:
Who should I contact if I have a safeguarding concern about a student?
- Mrs Sharon Walker, Designated Safeguarding Lead (01803 328725 Ext 170 / Email – [email protected])
Who should I contact if I have a safeguarding concern about an adult in school?
- Mr James Down, Headteacher (01803 328725 Ext 102)
Who should I contact if I have a safeguarding concern about the Headteacher?
- Father Paul Jones – Chair of Governors ([email protected])
Safeguarding & Welfare Team:
Safeguarding and Welfare Team:
- Safeguarding and Welfare Officer – Mrs Suzy Woods
- Safeguarding and Welfare Officer – Mrs Marie Deakin
- School Counsellor – Mrs Claire Funnell (3 days a week)
- Pastoral Admin & First Aid – Mrs Elaine Lightowlers
Heads of Year – Culture, Progress & Attendance:
- Team Leader – Mr Colin Horrocks
- Year 7 Head of Year – Mr Paul Chapman
- Year 8 Head of Year – Mrs Emma Bristow
- Year 9 Head of Year – Miss Lauren Gale
- Year 10 Head of Year – Mr Colin Gibson
- Year 11 Head of Year – Mr Diccon Haynes
- Attendance Improvement Officer – Mrs Letitia Wills
Emmaus Centre Team:
- Emmaus Centre Team Leader – Mr Adam Chadwick
- Emmaus Centre Senior Behaviour Mentor – Mr Ryan Hardman
- Emmaus Centre Support – Mrs Michelle Twigg, Mrs Stephanie White, Miss Alex Pingerra
Please note that the first point of contact for all parents and carers in matters other than Child Protection is their child’s form tutor.
On Site Support:
Torbay Young Carers – Mrs Angela Poole
Linx Christian Youth Trust – Philip Eley & Charlie Haywood
Linked Agencies:
The Pastoral Team works alongside Checkpoint, Young Carers, Community Police Officers and Police, Youth Offending Team, Family Group Conferencing, CAMHS (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service), School Nurse, Sexual Health Services and other outside professionals as appropriate.
STCM Child Protection and Safeguarding Policies:
Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy 2021
Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy – Parent Friendly Version
Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy – Child Friendly Version
Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy – COVID 19 Annexe
Further information for parents and carers:
Children‘s Mental Health Awareness:
Anti-Bullying Awareness:
Please click on the link below for more information for families:
http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/parenttool
Online-Safety:
Keeping our children safe when using the internet either at home on a computer or when they are out and about using a mobile device is a top priority. We have a list of tips below to guide you and some useful links to informative websites. We will also add information about any recent internet related topics.
Helpful advice and tools can help keep your child safe whenever and wherever they go online.
Conversation starter for parents/carers
Further information on Safer Internet Day 2018
Torbay Virtually Safe is a website with advice and information on e-safety issues. Please click the link below to access the website.
Links to more advice:
Helping children and young people to spot the signs of online grooming
CEOP – Information, advice and support from the police
Webwise – Internet Safety Guidance
Parental Controls:
For E-Safety guidance from BT on how to set up parental controls please click here
For E-Safety guidance from Sky on how to set up parental controls please click here
For E-Safety guidance from Talk Talk on how to set up parental controls please click here
For E-Safety guidance from Virgin Media on how to set up parental controls please click here
Top 10 tips for keeping children safe online:
- Keep the computer in a common room in the house and position the monitor so it’s available for public viewing.
- Establish rules for using the Internet and teach your children important safety guidelines.
- Understand social networking. Teach your children that people online are not always who they say they are. Popular social networking sites are a favourite hunting ground for predators. Teach your children how to use the privacy settings and to keep identifying information off their blogs.
- Tell your children to keep their personal information protected.Children should never give their real name, address, phone number, the name of their school or a picture of themselves to anyone they meet online. NEVER let your children meet in person with anyone they’ve met on the Internet.
- Protect your children’s passwords and create generic names. Make sure your children don’t have screen names or aliases that reveal their personal information, including their full name, age, gender, etc.
- Frequently check your computer’s Internet history and monitor your children’s email account. Let them know you’re checking these, why you’re doing it and talk about potential online danger.
- Spend time with your children online. Have them show you their favourite sites.
- Teach your children cyber ethics. For example, hacking into someone’s computer is just as wrong as breaking into someone else’s home. You set rules, boundaries and codes of acceptable behaviour in the real world; do the same for the virtual world.
- Be computer savvy.Use antivurs, antispyware and a firewall and keep them current, but don’t rely on them as your only line of defence. For an easy step-by-step technical turorial for parents, go toikeepsafe.org/iksc_partners/symantec.
- Teach your children to tell a parent, teacher or trusted adult if they feel uncomfortable about anything they’ve seen on a computer.
For more tips from the National Cyber Security Alliance, go online to www.staysafeonline.org or www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents
Useful links to the latest safeguarding information:
Keeping Children Safe in Education
For the latest Keeping Children Safe in Education publication please click here
Drugs and Alcohol awareness
Psychoactive substance legislation
Extra-Curricular Clubs
Leaving children at home alone
For guidance on leaving children at home alone please click here
Radicalisation and extremism
Protecting children and young people against radicalisation and extremism
Prevent Radicalisation:
We are committed at St Cuthbert Mayne School to keeping children safeguarded against the risk of extremism. Should you have any concerns about radicalisation or extremism as a student or parent, then please contact Mrs Walker, the Designated Safeguarding Lead.