Key Information

Policies

Meridian Trust establishes many trust-wide policies relating to safeguarding, student welfare, teaching and learning, personnel, health and safety, IT and finance. Meridian Trust policies are approved by the trust board, Policy & Scrutiny Committees, or Executive Board in accordance with the Scheme of Delegation.  They are applicable to all Meridian Trust academies and the core.  Meridian Trust policies can be found below.

Some policies and procedures are specific to each academy.  These are approved by the Academy Councils and can be found on the academies’ websites.

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We regularly review our policies to ensure they are in line with the newest guidance from the Department for Education, other requirements and best practice. As policies are updated they will be published below.

If you require a paper version of a specific policy or any other policy or procedure that is not listed here, please contact us by using the ‘Contact’ menu link at the top right of this website.

Some policies may refer to the Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust (CMAT) or the Cambridge Primary Education Trust (CPET), which are our previous trading names prior to merging. As policies are updated these references will be updated, however these now are covered by the organisation name Meridian Trust.

Meridian Trust adheres to the following Department for Education guidance documents:

Searching, Screening and Confiscation Searching, screening and confiscation in schools – GOV.UK

Suspensions and Permanent ExclusionsSuspension and permanent exclusion guidance

Gender Questioning Children – Gender Questioning Children – non-statutory guidance

Policies

Department for Education’s Guidance on Safeguarding

Meridian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Our policies and procedures are based on the most recent government guidance and best practice.

Safeguarding and safer recruitment are key elements of our practice and as such all adults working at all our academies, either directly or through outsourced contract, receive the following support;

  • Recruitment via a process involving a safer recruitment senior leader
  • An enhanced DBS check before beginning work 
  • Safeguarding training at the point of employment
  • Update training on safeguarding and the PREVENT duty at the start of every academic year
  • regular updates on specific issues relating to safeguarding, e.g. Mental Health support, On-line safety, CSE

Statutory guidance documents that inform our practice are available below.

Keeping children safe in education 2024

Working together to safeguard children 2023: statutory guidance