Safeguarding Overview
Mount Pleasant Junior School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent, effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, children and staff at school. All staff, including volunteers, are subject to a rigorous DBS check.
Children’s awareness of their own personal behaviour and safety is regularly updated by a programme of whole school assemblies, lessons, visits and visitors. The school firmly believes that where positive relationships are made between home and school, the children benefit.
We follow the procedures set out by the East Riding Safeguarding Children Partnership (Policies) and in school.
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MPJS Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy 2025-2026.docx | [pdf 1MB] |
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Roles and Responsibilities of our Designated Safeguarding Lead | [docx 14KB] |
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As a school, we are part of the local authority's Operation Encompass programme. Operation Encompass has been designed to provide early reporting to schools of any domestic abuse incidents that occur outside of normal school hours and that might have had an impact on a child attending our premising the following day. This information will be shared at the earliest opportunity between Monday and Friday and, when a incident occurs on a Friday, Saturday or a Sunday, the police will contact us the following Monday.
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Meet the Safeguarding and Welfare Team
Mrs S Watson
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Since joining our pastoral team in January 2023, Mrs Watson works alongside Mrs Gedney to support children within our school community. Like Mrs Gedney, Mrs Watson is timetabled to see a number of childern each day for 1:1 support and often works with children within their classes if required.
She can be contacted by calling or texting 07946136335.
Mrs J Gedney
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mrs Gedney is also responsible for the welfare of children within the school. Throughout the school day, Mrs Gedney works with a number of children to ensure that they feel happy and safe. Additionally, she runs a number of intervention groups supporting the welfare of the children at Mount Pleasant Junior School.
She can be contacted by calling or texting 07943 752887.
Mr D Sage
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mr Sage is responsible for the coordination of safeguarding, as well as the operational oversight of safeguarding and pupil welfare within the school. He is responsible for ensuring that all current policies and procedures are followed with our school.
In addition to this role, he is also responsible for Curriculum and Teaching and Learning as part of his Deputy Headteacher role.
Mrs A Hodgson
Mrs A Hodgson is the school's Designated Safeguarding Governor. She holds Mr Sage and the pastoral team accountable for the quality of Safeguarding provision within the schools. As part of her role, she has oversight of the school policy and procedures and reports to the remainder of the Governing Body on Safeguarding. She can be contacted through either the school office or safeguarding@mpjs.eriding.net
Making a Safeguarding or Welfare Referral
If you have any safeguarding or welfare concerns about your child or a member of the school community, you can email the school's safeguarding team on safeguarding@mpjs.eriding.net . This email address is monitored every day and a member of the safeguarding team will contact you at their earliest convenience to discuss your concerns.
If you have immediate safeguarding concerns about a child, you can contact the East Riding Safeguarding Partnership Hub by calling 01482 395500.
Support Services:
Welfare Drop Ins
At Mount Pleasant Junior School, we pride ourselves on the wonderful relationship that is built up between our children and members of staff. The Safeguarding and Welfare Team are looking to establish as many different avenues as possible for the children we work with to speak to a trusted adult if they are worried or concerned about anything.
We have introduced two drop in style sessions where children can come to the ELSA room to speak to Mr Sage or Mrs Gedney about anything that is concerning them at home or at school.
Please see the poster for more information. We will be introducing more sessions (some of these for parents) in the upcoming weeks.
Web Links
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East Riding Safeguarding Children Board |
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