Our Team

How it works within the Academy

When new staff, volunteers or regular visitors join our Academy they will be informed of the safeguarding arrangements in place.

Every new member of staff or volunteer will have an induction period including the training in essential safeguarding information.

All regular visitors and volunteers to our Academy are told where our policy can be assessed, they are provided with a set of safeguarding procedures. This policy is referred to in our Academy prospectus and parents are reminded about it through Academy communications.

When new students join our school, all parents and carers are informed that we have a safeguarding policy. This is available to parents should they request a copy.

Where there are concerns for the welfare of a student within the Academy, these must be communicated immediately to the designated Child Protection Coordinator.

If the designated Child Protection Coordinator is unavailable concerns must be communicated to Claire Boyton, Assistant Vice Principal.

Operation Encompass is a Police and Education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people exposed to domestic abuse.

Operation Encompass is the reporting to schools before the start of the next  school day when a child or young person has been involved or exposed to a domestic abuse incident the previous evening.

The information is given in strict confidence to a school’s Key Adult to enable support to be given dependent on the needs and wishes of the child.

Operation Encompass is a Trauma Informed and Trauma Sensitive charity. We acknowledge and understand the impact of Domestic Abuse as an Adverse Childhood Experience.

Operation Encompass mitigates against the damaged caused by exposure to Domestic Abuse and other ACE’s

Legal Information

The Children’s Act 1989, section 27 and 47, and the Children’s Act 2004 state that: it is the duty of the schools to act “…to safeguard and promote the welfare of children who are in need”.

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as: ‘Protecting children from maltreatment, preventing impairment of children’s health and development, ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care and undertaking this role so as to enable those children to have optimum life chances and to enter adulthood successfully.’

Effective child protection is essential to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. All agencies should aim to proactively safeguard and promote the welfare of children so that the need for action to protect children from harm is reduced.