Policies

School Attendance Policies should include reference to the following whilst reflecting your school’s own procedures. It is good practice to publish your attendance policy on your school website. Parents or carers will need to be regularly made aware of the terms of your policy – particularly with reference to the use of external agencies and your intended approach to the use of Fixed Penalty Notices or other parental measures to improve attendance. This includes parents/carers of pupils who join your school roll mid year.

School will support pupils whose needs necessitate behaviour interventions or outside agency support.
Where applicable, individual risk assessments for these pupils will be put in place and discussed with parents and carers.

All schools are required by law to have a complaints policy. This policy should help resolve problems and provide a means for issues of concern to be raised and subsequently addressed. All complainants will be treated respectfully during and after the course of any complaints investigation and will receive a written response to their complaint, unless appropriate and reasonable measures have been put in place as a result of the ‘Persistent and or Vexatious Complainants’ policy set out below.

Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Board (SSCB) is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how local organisations will co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people living in Staffordshire.

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent LSCBs have worked together to produce joint policies and procedures in line with current legislation and statutory guidance. This has resulted in the need to reconfigure the presentation and order of the existing SSCB procedures to synergise the work of both Boards and improve the way in which the SSCB procedures were presented.

Redhill recognises its legal duty under s175 Education Act 2002 and the 1989 and 2004 Children Acts. We take seriously our responsibilities to protect and safeguard the interests of all pupils.

Redhill is committed to providing a secure environment for pupils, where children feel safe and are kept safe. All staff and volunteers working at Redhill recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility irrespective of the role they undertake or whether their role has direct contact or responsibility for children or not.

Redhill is required to keep and process certain information about its staff members and pupils in accordance with its legal obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This policy is in place to ensure all staff and governors are aware of their responsibilities and outlines how the school complies with the core principles of the GDPR.

Providing accessible information to individuals about the use of personal information (data) is a key element of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and sets a legal framework with which education settings must comply.

Redhill Primary School is committed to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and to the principles of accountability and the general right of access to recorded information, subject to legal exemptions. This policy outlines our response to the Act and a framework for managing requests.

As part of our Safeguarding procedures all children and staff are required to agree with the Acceptable Use Policy. Teachers have discussed the policy with the children to make them aware of their responsibilities as network users.

The Headteacher and Governors oversee the safe use of technology when children and learners are in their care and take action immediately if they are concerned about bullying, radicalisation or other aspects of children’s well-being. They are responsible for ensuring the safety (including online and the prevention of being drawn into terrorism) of all members of the school community. They have concern for the online reputation of the school.

The aim of this policy is to set out what charges will be levied for school activities, external lettings and extended school provision, what remissions will be implemented and the circumstances under which voluntary contributions will be requested from parents.

The school governing body has a responsibility to have a debt recovery policy which ensures that appropriate procedures are in place to enable the school to receive all income to which it is entitled.

The Pupil Premium is allocated by local authorities, or the DfE, to schools and academies with pupils between Foundation Stage 2 and Year 11, on roll in January of each year, that are known to have been eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any time in the last six years (so-called Ever 6 Pupils).

The Redhill Primary School Facebook page is run in partnership by the school. It is managed by a School Working Group.

This risk assessment is aimed at identifying risks associated with exposure to COVID-19. This is a working document and will change in response to a change in the level of risk or if a new risk is identified.

Equality of opportunity at Redhill Primary School is about providing equality and excellence for all in order to promote the highest possible standards of achievement. Equality of opportunity applies to all members of the school community – pupils, staff, governors, parents and community members.

At Redhill Primary School we aim to ensure children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. We promote teaching and learning to ensure children’s ‘school readiness’ and gives children the broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good future progress through school and life.

Through 'Society' (our PSHE programme), we aim to provide children with the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active and responsible citizens.

On 1 September 2014 a new duty came into force for governing bodies to make arrangements to support pupils at school with medical conditions. The statutory guidance in this document is intended to help governing bodies meet their legal responsibilities and sets out the arrangements they will be expected to make, based on good practice.

This SEND Policy works alongside and in conjunction with the schools Local Offer and the Local Offer offered by Staffordshire Local Authority and the following school policies:
The Attendance Policy, The Pupil Premium Policy, The Behaviour Policy, LDD (Learning difficulty or disability) and Accessibility Policy, Anti-bullying Policy, Admissions Policy, Equal Opportunities Policy, Able children, Gifted and talented Policy, Safeguarding Policy, Learning and Teaching Policy, PSHE and Citizenship Policies, Multi-cultural and global citizenship Policies, Continuing Professional Development Policy and is embedded in the Learning and Teaching Framework of the school.

From September 2014 every Local Authority will be required to publish information about services they expect to be available in their area for children and young people from birth to 25 who have special educational needs and or disabilities (SEND) and also services outside of the area which they expect children and young people from their area will use. This will be known as the ‘Local Offer’.