Safeguarding at Little Stars

Little Stars fully recognise how important our support ensures we protect all children on role and offer children and their families help and guidance if needed. 

• Developing strong relationships with all of our parents, carers and families and all of the children we care for. We provide a positive and supportive environment, that recognises needs within families and offer Early Help whenever necessary.
 We follow robust safer recruitment procedures when employing staff or volunteers.

• We have a high regards to safeguarding policies and procedures and ensure all are followed at all times. We also ensure all staff receive high quality training to sup-port and respond to any Child protection concerns. We have a strong Designated Safeguarding Team that attend yearly training to keep their skills up to date and therefore allows them to support a respond as necessary when issues or incidents may arise.

• We offer Early Help to all our families or children that are on role, if they are in need of support. Early Help is about taking action early and as soon as possible to tackle problems emerging for children, young people and their families. Early Help means providing support as soon as possible to help families cope with difficulties and working together with other services to prevent bigger problems emerging. Support can come from a range of services and organisations, for parents, children and young people of any age. Our setting is here to offer support and advice and sign post families for additional help and support they may require. We are not here to judge and want to be a support base for all our children and their families. Please speak to us if you feel you may need some advice or support and we will be happy to help.

• Staff receive regular training to identify concerns they may see. This covers all as-pects of Safeguarding, such as PREVENT, E-Safety, FGM, Child Protection, How to recognise different forms of abuse, Working Together to Safeguard Children, How to make a referral and what to do if you feel a child is at risk of harm, Child Neglect, Child on Child abuse any many more.

Little Stars fully supports that Safeguarding is everybody’s business and we are always committed to ensuring that all of our children are safe, secure and that concerns can be identified and supported or a referral is made to social care if necessary.