Our school has a wide variety of policies, aimed towards providing the best possible care for anyone who visits or attends our school. For your convenience, here are a selection of policies that might be of interest to you. If you would like a paper copy (or any other format) of any of our documents on our website please speak to the school office, who will provide them to you free of charge. If you require further information on any of the items shown in this section, please contact the school and we will do our best to help.

Our Policy Section is currently under review and we will be adding updated polices as soon as possible.  If you require further information please contact the school office.

Key Policies

• Admissions Policy November 2021
• Accessibility Plan 2021-2024
• Anti-Bullying Policy January 2022
• Anti-Bullying Policy (Pupil Voice) November 2021
• Behaviour-Policy- 2021-2022
• Charging and Remission Policy 2021-2022
• Collective Worship Policy 2021-2022
• Complaints Policy
• Equality Policy Information and Objectives
• Financial Procedures Manual 2021-2022
• Low Level Concerns Policy November 2021
• On line Safety April 2022
• PSHE Policy
• RE Policy 2021-2022
• RSE Policy
• Supporting Pupils with Medical Conditions January 2022
• SEN Policy February 2022

Keeping Children Safe in  School (Safeguarding)

• Keeping Children Safe in Education 2021 (Gov.uk)
• Child Safeguarding Policy (2021)
  • Appendix 1 Roles Responsibilities and Entitlements
  • Appendix 2 Indicators of Harm
  • Appendix 3 First-Contact-Referral-Form-MASTER
  • Appendix 4 Summary of Multi Agency Meetings
  • Appendix 5 Information Sharing 2018
  • Appendix 6 UKCIS Sharing Nudes and Semi-Nudes Advice for Education Settings
  • Appendix 8 – Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges
  • Appendix 9 When to call the police guidance for schools and colleges

All staff (and volunteers) are guided towards the following document Keeping Children Safe in Education (Updated Sep 2021)

Care Guidance

Toileting and Intimate Care Guidance for Schools and Early Years in Durham

Data Protection

Gainford Church of England Primary and Pre-School collects and uses pupil information under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Education Act 1996 which are a lawful basis for collecting and using pupil information for general purposes (and from Article 6 and Article 9 where data processed is special category data from the General Data Protection Regulation from 25 May 2018).

• Privacy Notice for Staff (2022)
• Privacy Notice for Parents and Carers (2022)
• Data Protection Policy (2022)

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