Visitors
If you’re visiting our school, you need to make sure everything goes safely and smoothly. We may ask you to follow different procedures depending on the reason for your visit.
Before your visit
- Make sure you understand and follow the school’s processes for visitors, whichever capacity you are visiting in.
- Confirm the date and time of your visit with the school. Make sure you know who to ask for when you arrive.
- If you’re self-employed or visiting on behalf of an organisation, be prepared to share your safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures in advance. The school will need to check that your safeguarding measures meet their standards.
- Organisations should provide the school with written confirmation that visitors have been recruited following safer recruitment. This includes confirmation that anyone working with children has undergone the relevant vetting and barring checks. The school will need to check these procedures meet their standards.
- If you are self-employed, it’s best practice to show the school evidence that you have carried out the appropriate vetting and barring checks for self-employed people.
- If you plan to take photographs of children and young people as part of your work, you must seek prior permission from the school.
- Mobile phones must be locked away during your visit
- Make sure you know how to recognise and respond to any concerns about a child’s safety or welfare.
- Ensure that your institution has provided school with a letter of assurance.
During the visit
- Be prepared to show identification when you arrive.
- Follow the school’s code of conduct.
- Only go into areas of the school you’ve been permitted to enter.
- You should only be alone with children if the school has given you permission. If you are working one-to-one with a child, make sure you put the appropriate safeguarding measures in place.
- Be a role model to the children in the way you present yourself and how you dress. Our expectation for all is that all visitors are decently, appropriately, and professionally dressed in work.
Please do not use your mobile phone in school whilst working with children. We can provide you with a locker to store your phone whilst you visit us.
If you identify a safeguarding or child protection concern
- Report it by following both the school’s and your own procedures. You will be provided with a safeguarding leaflet upon your arrival and shown where the ‘cause for concern’ forms can be found
- Work with the school to support any ongoing work with that child and their family, including referrals to other agencies.
Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 Updated
Visitor Procedures October 2024