Safeguarding

If you have an urgent concern about a child you can contact the Police on 101, or 999 in an emergency. You can also contact the Northamptonshire Multi-agency safeguarding hub directly on 0300 126 7000

INMAT is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of all our pupils. We expect everyone associated with INMAT, all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent, effective safeguarding policies, procedures and practices are in place to support pupils, families and staff in all our schools.

All our schools follow the guidance in the most recent version of Keeping Children Safe in Education, Working Together to Safeguard Children (2026) and the DfE Governance Handbook. All staff and volunteers will adhere to the INMAT safeguarding policy, whistleblowing policy and staff code of conduct.

Our CEO is the Trust Designated Safeguarding Lead. Our Trust Inclusion Lead supports our schools to make sure their processes and procedures are robust and fit for purpose. Each school in our trust has a Designated Safeguarding Lead and a safeguarding governor. We are committed to ensuring that our safeguarding leaders and all staff and volunteers receive the appropriate training to prepare them for their roles.

All our schools will work closely with families for the benefit of the pupils. Staff will make referrals and seek advice and guidance from external agencies such as Social Care if it is deemed necessary. There may be exceptional circumstances when the school will discuss concerns with Social Care and/or the Police without parental knowledge. Our leaders will always aim to maintain a positive relationship with all parents and carers.

If you have a concern about a pupil or a member of staff in one of our schools, please use the contact details below.

Reporting a Safeguarding Concern

If you have a concern about a pupil or a member of staff, please contact a designated safeguarding lead.

Designated Safeguarding Lead:

Amie James (Headteacher)

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads:

Alison Allerton - Deputy Head teacher
Nina Patterson - Family Support Worker
Chris Hern
Denise Bethell

Safeguarding Governor:

Pauline Matheson-Marks

If your concern is about a senior leader at School, please contact Helen Williams, the INMAT designated safeguarding lead: safeguarding@inmat.org.uk or 01604 434600

Useful links:

Early Help Support

We aim to offer early intervention and support to our children and families to help them improve factors that may be causing worry or difficulties in the home. We will reach out to you via telephone and together we can discuss what the next steps may be. We may then invite you to have a discussion so that solutions can be found before matters escalate. We may also use support from external services such as Strengthening Families or the School Nursing Team in order to ensure that our parents and children receive the right help at the right time.

Family Help support is accessed online at: Support for Children and Families | Northampton Children's Trust

Please contact our Family Support Worker- Miss Nina Patterson- if you would like to access this support.

Online safety

If you would like further advice about keeping children safe online then these websites are particularly useful:

We also have established links with the local Online and Wellbeing Safety Officer who provides many resources to parents, schools and children,

West Northamptonshire Local Safeguarding Board and MASH

The Safeguarding team follow the procedures set out in the document Keeping Children Safe and government guidance. Alongside this, we also follow procedures and contextual guidance from the Northamptonshire Local Safeguarding Board. For information about this please click here.

There is a wealth of information on here including advice about wellbeing and advice for keeping children safe, including how to keep children safe online.

In line with local safeguarding procedures, we may need to refer concerns to the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH). This is so we can obtain advice or instructions on what we need to do next to help keep a child safe.

The Parents guide to MASH can be found here.

Prevent

All of our staff also undertake regular training in order to help protect our children from many influences that may cause them significant harm. This is known as the Prevent duty- you can find out about this here.