Alice Purcell
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Keeping children safe
Seann Williams
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Keeping children safe is our priority
- On arrival to the school please make yourselves known to the office and sign in, please be aware that ID will be checked if you are unknown to the school.
- Remember to sign out when you leave the school site.
- Please wear a visitor’s badge during your visit.
- Please read our visitors’ guidelines
- Mobile phones may not be used to take photos on site
- If you have any safeguarding concerns, please report them to the Headteacher (Ms Purcell), who is our senior designated officer or, if she is not available, to Mrs Williams who is our deputy safeguarding officer.
Knowing children as individuals
You can find more information at: http://www.devonsafeguardingchildren.org/
- Listen and accept
- Say you will share information
- Don’t promise confidentiality
- Reassure the child
- Tell the child that you take them seriously
- Try not to interrupt
- Ask questions only to clarify
- Note accurately what the child says
- Don’t investigate
- Report ASAP to the child protection officers
Supporting Children: Operation Encompass
The school has been given the opportunity to take part in a project that will run jointly between schools and Devon and Cornwall Police. Operation Encompass is the reporting to schools, prior to the start of the next school day, when a child or young person has exposed to, or involved in, any domestic incident.
Operation Encompass will ensure that a member of the school staff, known as a Key Adult, is trained to allow them to liaise with the police and to use the information that has been shared, in confidence, while ensuring that the school is able to make provision for possible difficulties experienced by children who have been involved in, or exposed to, a domestic abuse incident.
Key Contacts:
Operation Encompass website: www.operationencompass.org
Splitz Domestic Abuse Service: www.splitz.org
email: admin@splitzdevon.org
tel: 0345 155 1074
