Safeguarding
At Pinchmill Primary School we take all nature of safeguarding seriously.
If you have any concerns, please contact the Safeguarding Team below.
- Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mrs Victoria Bailey
- Deputy Safeguarding Lead
Ms Michelle Mckiernan
- Safeguarding Governor
Mrs Rachel Mellor
If you have concerns outside of school hours please contact our out of hours email address: vbailey@pinchmillprimary.co.uk
Other helpful sites for information are:
https://www.operationencompass.org/
https://www.operationencompass.org/educational-settings/resources-for-educational-settings
Operation Encompass is a police and education early information safeguarding partnership enabling educational settings to offer immediate support to children experiencing domestic abuse.
Operation Encompass ensures that there is a simple telephone call or electronic notification to a school’s trained Designated Safeguarding Lead / Mrs V Bailey(known as Key Adult) prior to the start of the next school day after an incident of police attended domestic abuse where there are children related to either of the adult parties involved.
Information is shared with a school’s Key Adult (Designated Safeguarding Lead /Mrs Victoria Bailey) prior to the start of the next school day after officers have attended a domestic abuse incident. This sharing of information enables appropriate support to be given, dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child.
Children are negatively impacted by experiencing domestic abuse and without early intervention and support this negative impact can last through a child’s life course. Domestic abuse can impact upon social, psychological, physical, emotional and behavioural outcomes with an often negative impact upon a child’s academic success. Experiencing domestic abuse has been identified as an Adverse Childhood Experience.
Operation Encompass aims, by directly connecting police and schools, to secure better outcomes for children , to enable schools to better understand the impact living with domestic abuse has upon children, to help schools to better understand a child’s living experience and to therefore be able to support and nurture each child , making a child’s day better and giving them a better tomorrow.
Our aim is to have Operation Encompass in every force, in every school, for every child no matter where they live. It is simply every child’s right.
