School Safeguarding Champions 2025 - 2026

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 We are Berkeley's Safeguarding Champions who work alongside Mrs Gohr (Safeguarding Lead and Mental Health Lead), Mr Birchenough (Deputy Safeguarding Lead), Mr Wagg (Deputy Safeguarding Lead) and Mrs Barker (Chair of Governors) in order to keep our school safe. 

We contribute to ensuring that everything in the school is secure and safe for all of us.  Some of our responsibilities include overseeing the use of the ‘Buddy Bench’ and making sure that children are familiar with the Friendship stop, where other children can sit quietly and chat with each other. Additionally, we oversee the work that our school’s KiVa team do in delivering the KiVa anti-bullying message across the school.

Another really important thing that we do is to help the staff find any safety hazards around the site by reporting issues to them so that Mr Dutton (Site Maintenance Officer) can respond quickly and sort things out. We also update the information signs on the school noticeboards and ensure that children can see posters on a range of Safeguarding topics, such as being kind to each other and safe use of the internet.

Through our work in assemblies, we have highlighted the need for children to be aware of the need to speak to a ‘Trusted Adult’ should they feel worried or concerned about anything. We have helped staff deliver the message so that children realise that the adult might be a parent, a grandparent or any member of school staff. 

We think that our job is very important as we are a vital part of everyday life in school. We also appreciate the importance of ensuring whole school safeguarding.