Safeguarding
The documents below are all related to keeping our pupils and staff safe here at St Paul's.
If you have any specific safeguarding concerns you can always talk to any member of staff. If you would like to talk to our Designated Safeguarding Leads about any concerns you may have, you can contact them via the school phone number or their school email addresses.
The DSLs at St Paul's are:
Mrs R Wells (Lead DSL)
01254 231026
head@st-pauls.lancs.sch.uk
Mrs E Brown (Back-up DSL)
01254 231026
e.brown@st-pauls.lancs.sch.uk
Mr G Fielding (Back-up DSL)
01254 231026
g.fielding@st-pauls.lancs.sch.uk
Mrs L Briggs (Back-up DSL)
01254 231026
l.briggs@st-pauls.lancs.sch.uk
Mrs E Procter (Back-up DSL)
01254 231026
e.procter@st-pauls.lancs.sch.uk
Mr R Reidy (Back-up DSL)
01254 231026
r.reidy@st-pauls.lancs.sch.uk
Operation Encompass
The purpose of Lancashire’s 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 in 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. 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. The 'Key Adult at St Paul's is Mrs R Wells. Following the report of an incident of domestic abuse, by 8.30am 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. The purpose and procedures in Operation Encompass have been shared with all parents and Governors, is detailed as part of the school’s Safeguarding Policy and published on our school website.
You can find out more about Operation Encompass from the website:
https://www.operationencompass.org/
Prevent Duty
The Prevent strategy, published by the Government in 2015, is part of an overall counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST.
The aim of the Prevent strategy is to reduce the threat to the UK from terrorism by stopping people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. In the Act this has simply been expressed as the need to “prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”.
To read more about the prevent strategy please click on the link below