Safeguarding
Statement of Safeguarding Children
Keeping Children Safe is Everyone’s Responsibility
Our school community has a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children who are in our care. This means that we have Safeguarding and Child Protection policies and procedures in place, which we refer to in our prospectus. All staff, including our volunteers and supply staff, must ensure that they are aware of our procedures.
Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child’s welfare. We will always ensure that our concerns about our pupils are discussed with their parents/carers first unless we have reason to believe that this is not in the child’s best interests or a child is at significant risk or in immediate danger.
If you become concerned about a child or adult please contact:
Our safeguarding team on roselandsdsl@rivieraet.co.uk
or
Tel: 01803 525375 and ask to speak to:
Mrs Pippa Bastock (Designated Safeguarding Lead)
or
Mrs Rebecca Goddard (Family Support worker and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead)
or
Mr Danny Brown (Head of School and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead)
If you have a concern about the Headteacher, please contact Mel Simmonds (Chair of Governors) via:
msimmonds@rivieraet.co.uk or on 01803 525375.
If you have concerns about any child, you can contact Children’s Services Social Care direct on:
01803 208100 or out of hours: 0300 456 4876
Prevent is part of the government's overall counter-terrorism strategy which is called CONTEST. The aim of Prevent is to reduce the threat from terrorism by stopping people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. To find out more please visit the links below. If you have any terrorist concerns please speak with the Prevent Lead, Mrs Rebecca Goddard.
Information sharing between agencies supporting young people.
A lot of work has been done within the Local Authority since September 2014 to develop co-operation between various agencies working to support children and young people in the Bay. Schools are now supported by the Torbay Education Safeguarding Service (TESS). Working closely with Social Care and other partners such as the police and health, this support is helping us to ensure we can support our pupils when there are additional needs, and ultimately improve outcomes for them. In that context, TESS have provided the following paragraph to let you know of the main aspects of information shared.
Information from the Police and Social care
“Torbay Education Safeguarding Service (TESS) is a social work led service working in partnership with schools and social care to promote the welfare of children and young people, and to ensure they are safe from harm. As part of their work, they will receive information from partner agencies, such as the police and social care. The police send a daily Public Protection Notice (PPN). This is generated if there has
been an incident when the police are called to any household where a child is resident. It may be that the incident relates to only of one your children, however, it is likely that any police involvement with one member of the household may affect all of the siblings.
There may be occasions when you have not consented to the sharing of the information. For minor incidents, if you withhold consent to share information TESS will not receive an alert. However, incidents graded medium or high are shared with schools as these are deemed potential child protection matters. This principle is similar to that employed by the police for Operation Encompass, an initiative managed by the police and nothing to do with TESS.
In addition, the police send all missing and found notifications. These are forwarded to all schools
for information.
If information is shared, this will be in accordance with the key principles of the Data Protection Laws on a need-to-know basis and will only occur to help schools protect and promote the welfare of your son or daughter. When there is any sharing of information, schools should discuss this with you to enable a partnership approach to meeting the needs of your son or daughter.
If you have any questions about the service please ask your school, or telephone Sarah James, TESS Team Manager: 07525 815441
Autumn Term 202s
Operation Encompass
Operation Encompass
Our school is part of Operation Encompass which is a national scheme that operates jointly between schools and police forces.
Operation Encompass is the reporting to schools, prior to the start of the next school day, when a child or young person has experienced domestic abuse.
As a school we have ensured that a member of our staff, (Designated Safeguarding Lead) known as a Key Adult, has been trained in the Operation Encompass procedures allowing us to then use the information that has been shared, in confidence, to support the child/ren in our care.
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 identifies children who experience domestic abuse as victims of domestic abuse in their own right.
We are keen to offer the best support possible to all our pupils and we believe this will be extremely beneficial for all those involved.
Our school is part of Operation Encompass which is a national scheme that operates jointly between schools and police forces.
Operation Encompass is the reporting to schools, prior to the start of the next school day, when a child or young person has experienced domestic abuse.
As a school we have ensured that a member of our staff, (Designated Safeguarding Lead) known as a Key Adult, has been trained in the Operation Encompass procedures allowing us to then use the information that has been shared, in confidence, to support the child/ren in our care.
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 identifies children who experience domestic abuse as victims of domestic abuse in their own right.
We are keen to offer the best support possible to all our pupils and we believe this will be extremely beneficial for all those involved.
POLICIES
Please email: clerk@rivieraet.co.uk if you would like to request any of the policies in a different format.
Additional Safeguarding Links:
- TSCP multi agency safeguarding procedures
- Keeping children safe in education 2023 (publishing.service.gov.uk)
- Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 (publishing.service.gov.uk)
- What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused 2015
- Professional and Personnel Relationships (safeguardingchildren.co.uk)
New Childline website now live
Childline is the UK’s free 24-hour service for children and young people. Run by the NSPCC, Childline gives children and young people up to the age of 19 confidential support with whatever is worrying them.
Since the service began in 1986, it has carried out over 5.9 million counselling sessions with young people.
Childline supports more than 200,00 children and young people each year.
Find out about Childline’s unique offer on NSPCC Learning.