Safeguarding
Hinchley Wood School is committed to ensuring the welfare and safety of all our children in school. Students have a right to learn in a supportive, caring and safe environment which includes the right to protection from all types of abuse.
Hinchley Wood School follows the Surrey Safeguarding guidelines. The school’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy, Safer Recruitment Procedure, Online Safety Policy, Anti-Bullying Policy, Behaviour, Rewards and Sanctions Policy and Volunteers, Visitors, Supply Staff & Contractors – Safeguarding Procedures, are available via the links at the bottom of this page.
We have a dedicated Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Team (EWMH) in school who students can be referred to for extra support and guidance during term time. Please refer to the EWMH section for more information about this team.
Child Protection and Safeguarding Leads
The designated Staff for Child Protection are Mrs K Cullen, Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) who works with a team of Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads:
Mr L Cartlidge-Llewellyn, (Head of Learning Year 7 and DDSL Years 7 and 8)
Ms N Stevenson (Safeguarding Student Support and DDSL Year 9)
Miss R Wiscombe (Assistant Head Teacher and DDSL Years 10 and 11)
Mr R Scammel (Director of Sport and DDSL Years 12 and 13)
Mrs N Wallis (Safeguarding Administrator and EWMH Support Coordinator)
These people can be contacted on dsl@hinchleywoodschool.co.uk if you or your child ever have a concern about the safety or wellbeing of others in school.
If you have a child protection or safeguarding concern outside of the school term times, please contact the Surrey Children’s Single Point of Access (C-SPA)
Availability: 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday
- Phone: 0300 470 9100
- Out of hours phone: 01483 517898 to speak to the emergency duty team.
- Email: emails are dealt with during normal office hours.
- For concerns for a child or young person: cspa@surreycc.gov.uk
Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health (EWMH) Support
Hinchley Wood School is committed to supporting the emotional wellbeing and mental health of all our children in school. As well as the support offered by our Pastoral Care Team – see Pastoral Care pages – our EWMH Team is a group of adults who can offer support for individuals or small groups of students through targeted emotional wellbeing and mental health support interventions.
All requests for additional EWMH support must have the support of the child and parent/carer and are triaged by our Intervention Assessment Team. This is made up of inclusion, safeguarding and pastoral staff and allows us to ensure that the support we offer is the most appropriate for the student. Should you have any concerns about your child’s mental health or wellbeing please contact their Form Tutor or Head of Learning in the first instance.
Some of the people in the EWMH Team include:
- Mrs K Cullen, Senior Mental Health Lead
- Mrs H Trafford-Dear, Mental Health and Wellbeing Lead
- Ms N Stevenson, Safeguarding Student Support
- Miss L Rebai and Mrs C Misto, ELSAs - offer a 6 week programme of targeted Emotional Literacy support
- Ms S Bates, Body and Identity Coach – supports with self-esteem, body confidence and identity
- Mrs J Hales, Early Intervention Coordinator, East to West - works on behalf of Mindworks Surrey to provide one-to-one relational support early interventions.
- Education Mental Health Practitioners and Senior Clinicians, Elmbridge Mental Health Support Team - work on behalf of Mindworks Surrey to offer CBT based early interventions for mild to moderate anxiety based difficulties or low mood. They also offer group interventions.
