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Safeguarding Information

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023

This guidance applies to all schools and colleges and is for:

  • headteachers, teachers and staff
  • governing bodies, proprietors and management committees

It sets out the legal duties you must follow to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 in schools and colleges.

All school and college staff should read part 1 of this guidance. Part 1 of the guidance is also available as a standalone document.

Statutory guidance sets out what schools must do to comply with the law.

Where the guidance states schools and colleges should do something, you should follow this unless you have a good reason not to.

Working Together to Safeguard Children

This guidance is for:

  • statutory safeguarding partners (health, local authorities, and police)
  • directors of children’s services
  • education and childcare settings
  • social workers
  • health professionals
  • police (including British Transport Police)
  • adult social care services
  • housing and homelessness services
  • Prison and Probation Services
  • children’s homes
  • secure establishments (secure training centres and young offender institutions)
  • youth offending teams
  • UK Visas and Immigration, Immigration Enforcement, and Border Force
  • Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass)
  • the armed services
  • Channel panels
  • voluntary, charity, social enterprise (VCSE) and faith-based organisations, and private sectors
  • sports clubs and organisations

It applies to:

  • all organisations and agencies that have functions relating to children
  • all education providers and childcare settings

Operation Encompass

In conjunction with Merseyside Police, Assess Education is involved in an initiative called Operation Encompass.

The purpose of Operation Encompass is to safeguard and support children and young people who have been involved in, or heard or witnessed, a domestic abuse incident.  Following such an incident, children can arrive at school distressed, upset, worried and unprepared.  Operation Encompass aims to ensure that appropriate school staff (called Key Adults) are made aware early enough to support children and young people in a way that means they feel safe and included.

At Assess Education our Key Adult is Kayleigh Riddell (Designated Safeguarding Lead).

This is a valuable initiative that means we can continue to support and help children and families within our school community when they need it the most.

You can find out more by visiting www.operationencompass.org or by contacting our Key Adult.

There is also a wealth of information regarding support available on the Liverpool City Council website via the link below:

https://liverpool.gov.uk/communities-and-safety/crime-and-safety/domestic-abuse/