Safeguarding
At Adlington St Paul's, safeguarding is paramount and we are committed to safeguarding our children and promoting our children's welfare.
If you are ever concerned about the safety or well being of someone at our school please contact the school's designated safe guarding leads.
Mrs J Burger (Headteacher) Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mr R Findlow (Deputy Headteacher) Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This means that we have a Safeguarding Policy and Safeguarding procedures in place.
Parents and carers are welcome to read the Policy, available on the school’s website below, or in hard copy upon request.
We follow the Working Well with Children and Families Guidance – See below
https://www.lancashiresafeguarding.org.uk/media/19299/wwwcf-part-1-and-2-final.pdf
https://panlancashirescb.proceduresonline.com/pdfs/WWWCF_3_Lancs.pdf
As a school we also use the Lancashire CSAP (Children’s Safeguarding Assurance Partnership) website:
The CSAP website is full of useful safeguarding and CP information.
https://www.safeguardingpartnership.org.uk/
For more information visit Family safeguarding - Lancashire County Council where you can also sign up to the free Children's Service newsletter.
Operation Encompass
The purpose of Operation 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.
Operation 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 9:00am 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.
At St. Paul's our Key Adult is Mrs J. Burger (Headteacher)
Online Safety
We support our pupils’ use of the internet and seek to underpin their knowledge of safe use and protection. We provide our pupils with an awareness of how to stay safe online both in the school environment and beyond, and encourage them to be digitally resilient. We believe that children should adhere to the certification given to games, DVD’s, mobile phone apps etc.
If you have a serious incident to report you can report it to CEOP (child exploitation and protection website)
https://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/