Safeguarding

Meet the academy’s Safeguarding Team:

Designated Safeguarding Lead	Mrs T Holt	01522 530954
Designated Safeguarding Officers	Mrs R. Tasker Mrs E. Jefferson	01522 530954
Designated Mental Health Lead	Mrs M Frain	01522 530954
Trust Designated Safeguarding Lead	Mrs K Huggett	01522 871355

The Governing body takes seriously its responsibility under section 175 of the Education Act 2002 to safeguard and promote the welfare of children; and to work together with other agencies to ensure adequate arrangements within our school to identify, assess, and support those children who are suffering harm.

We recognise that all adults, including temporary staff, volunteers and governors, have a full and active part to play in protecting our pupils from harm, and that the child’s welfare is our paramount concern.

All staff believe that our school should provide a caring, positive safe and stimulating environment that promotes the social, physical and moral development of the individual child.

• Safeguarding Concern? Who to contact. Please follow this link for further safeguarding information.

Welfare and Wellbeing

For information on pupil, staff and parent/carer wellbeing, please visit the Priory Trust's website via the following link:
The Priory Federation of Academies Trust: Wellbeing

Operation Encompass

Our academy supports Operation Encompass.

Operation Encompass is an information-sharing safeguarding partnership between police and education, enabling schools to offer immediate support to children experiencing domestic abuse in their family or household.

Operation Encompass is a national police-led initiative to notify schools, prior to the start of the next school day, when a child or young person has experienced any form of domestic abuse. An officer attending an incident of domestic abuse will record at the scene the names and school of any children in the household. This will result in an email notification to our academy in readiness for the start of the next school day. This sharing of information will enable us to provide appropriate support, dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child and/or family.

The Operation Encompass notification will be sent to the setting’s Key Adult (for our academy, this is the Designated Safeguarding Lead).

In the words of the scheme’s own mission statement, Operation Encompass aims to enable schools to better understand the impact living with domestic abuse has upon children; to help schools better understand a child’s lived experience; and to therefore be able to support and nurture each child, making a child’s day better and giving them a better tomorrow.

Further information can be found here: Operation Encompass

Alternatively, you can contact the academy’s Designated Safeguarding Lead via the Contact Us page on our website.