Safeguarding

What is safeguarding?

The Department for Education document Keeping Children Safe in Education defines safeguarding as:

• providing help and support to meet the needs of children as soon as problems emerge
• protecting children from maltreatment, whether that is within or outside the home, including online
• preventing the impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development
• ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
• taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes

Designated safeguarding lead

Liz Williams

Attendance and safeguarding officer

Ann Hodgson

Safeguarding policy

Ofsted, January 2024

Inspectors judged the arrangements for safeguarding to be effective.

Operation Compass

Operation Encompass is a partnership between the police and schools to ensure children’s wellbeing.

The police alert the designated safeguarding lead (DSL) if they have attended the family home of any of our students. They inform the DSL of the nature of the incident before the school day begins.

The system enables the DSL to ‘check in’ with a student to ensure they are okay and provide any supportive help, if required.