Safeguarding

At Marton Primary Academy and Nursery, the safety and wellbeing of our pupils is at the forefront of everything that we do. If you have concerns about a child who attends the school and would like to speak to someone regarding this, you can contact one of the following persons who are our safeguarding leads in school:

Inclusion Leader: Miss Reid
Designated Safeguarding Lead

Mrs Skinner
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead

Mrs S. Malin
Safeguarding Officer

Alternatively, you can call Blackpool Children’s Social Care Duty and Assessment Team: 01253 477299 or visit: www.blackpoolsafeguarding.org.uk

This Team consists of social workers, police staff and mental health professionals who will listen to any concerns you have. If you believe that a child is at risk of immediate harm, always dial 999 and ask for the police.

You can also contact the NSPCC for advice or to report a concern. Their website can be found at https://www.nspcc.org.uk/ or you can call 0808 800 5000.

Encompass

Operation Encompass is a police and education early information sharing partnership enabling schools to offer immediate support for children and young people experiencing domestic abuse. The project has been designed to provide early reporting of any domestic abuse incidents that occur outside school, which might have an impact on a child in school. This is communicated through a secure email to school following an incident.

The project ensures that at least one member of the school staff, known as the Key Adult, is available to liaise with children’s services and the police and to use the information that has been shared, in confidence.

In this way, we aim to support each child who has been involved in, or witnessed, a domestic abuse incident.

If they receive an Encompass notification they will make sure that a person the child trusts is available to help – if the child needs this. Most of the time this support is silent; keeping a careful eye on him or her and making sure the child has a calm school day. The confidential information is ordinarily not shared with all staff, just an agreement on how to help, if needed.

All schools have a duty to share any information with other organisations if they feel a child is at risk of being hurt. The Key Adult may contact other organisations.

The sharing of information from the police allows the school to be ready to help your child straight away, and it means that parents are aware that the Key Adult knows that something has happened. Parents can come and talk to our Key Adult. The Key Adult can point you towards other people that can help.