Ashurst Wood School is fully committed to promoting children’s rights, notably their right to be protected from harm, abuse and exploitation. The school expects all parents/carers, staff, and volunteers to share this commitment.
This commitment includes accepting a responsibility for the protection of children and ensuring that all concerns about a child’s safety or well-being are shared with the appropriate personnel- in most cases this will be the child’s classteacher or the Headteacher.
Ashurst Wood School has a Child Protection Policy and procedures in place. Parents and carers are welcome to read the Policy on request or through our website. This policy works within the Procedures and Guidelines as set down by the West Sussex Local Safeguarding Children Board.
Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child's welfare. We will ensure that our concerns about our pupils are discussed with his/her parents/carers first unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child's welfare.
Lisa Hobby Headteacher, is the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and can be contacted on
01342 822584
We have two Deputy Safeguarding officers:
Mrs Gemma Blake Hatton Monday - Thursday
Mr Ed Gowers - Every day
Safeguarding Policies
Worried about your child and social media, mobile phones, chat rooms and digital footprints?
Please follow the link to find below copy of a presentation and talk by Mr James Lea, Sackville School, ICT and E-learning teacher. The last few slides give some advice about parental controls and parenting ideas for dealing with children and their internet usage.
Parents e-Safety evening presentation
Parents e-Safety evening presentation
Ashurst Wood uses eSafe to monitor activity in the IT environment and on all connected devices.
In this way, all user behaviour is monitored, online and offline, to identify the early warning signs of abuse, neglect and safeguarding risk and so helping to keep students and staff safe.
Below are links to some useful resources to keep your children safe online