Safer Schools

Congratulations to Cockshutt C. E Primary School on maintaining the Safer School accreditation. The school was accredited a Safer School in 2009 and recently Mrs Baker held a Safer Schools meeting to update the school’s involvement in the security/safety initiative. The meeting was well attended by staff, a governor, the Police and myself representing Shropshire Council. We reviewed security/safety measures, prepared an action plan and reviewed the incident reporting process.

An essential element of this initiative involves communication and the school achieves this by holding an annual Safer School meeting, parent/carer/pupil surveys and newsletters. Like previous years, the survey results from the parents/carers and pupils were excellent and included both positive and constructive observations – all useful information. Using this information, it will form part of an action plan and it will be reviewed at the next Safer School meeting, already planned for Summer 2025.

An updated Safer School certificate was presented to the school in recognition of the school’s responsible approach to security, safety and safeguarding – Excellent work.

Ian Bartlett, Crime Prevention Officer, Shropshire Council 2024