Safeguarding

Safeguarding

Our Safeguarding team in school are made up of:

Mrs Sherry: Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)
Mrs van Zyl: Deputy DSL
Miss Brockbank: Deputy DSL

Mrs Sutton: Nominated governor: Safeguarding and online safety

Cuerden Church School is committed to:

* Supporting all learners with their pastoral needs and in accordance with any agreed plans.

* Maintaining a safe environment in which children can learn and develop.

* Ensuring the practice of safer recruitment in checking the suitability of staff and volunteers to work with children.

* Raising awareness of child protection issues and equipping children with the skills needed to keep them safe.

* Developing and then implementing procedures for identifying and reporting cases, or suspected cases of abuse.
(See School Safeguarding Procedures)

School regularly liaises with other agencies that support children and their families such as Children’s Social Care, Child and Family Wellbeing Service, Child and Adult Mental Health Service (CAMHS), the Schools’ Nursing Team, the Early Intervention Team, The Inclusion and Disability Service and Educational Psychology Service.

OPERATION ENCOMPASS

The purpose of Encompass is to safeguard and support children and young people who have been involved in or witness to a domestic abuse incident. Domestic abuse impacts on children a numbers of ways. Children are at increased risk of physical injury during an incident, either by accident or because they attempt to intervene. Even when not directly injured, children are greatly distressed by witnessing the physical and emotional suffering of a parent.

Encompass has been created to address this situation. It is the implementation of key partnership working between the police and schools. The aim of sharing information with local schools is to allow ‘Key Adults’ the opportunity of engaging with the child and to provide access to support that allows them to remain in a safe but secure familiar environment.

Following the report of an incident of domestic abuse, by 9:10am on the next school day the school’s Key Adult will be informed that the child or young person has been involved in a domestic incident. This knowledge, given to schools through Operation Encompass, allows the provision of immediate early intervention through silent or overt support dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child.

The purpose and procedures in Operation Encompass have been shared with all parents and Governors, is detailed as part of the school’s Safeguarding Policy and published on our school website.

The Key adults in school are:

Mrs Sherry: Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)
Mrs van Zyl: Deputy DSL
Miss Brockbank: Deputy DSL

For more information, please follow the link: https://www.operationencompass.org/

To access our policies on safeguarding and online safety please click on the relevant links below: