Safeguarding
Our safeguarding Principles
To maintain an attitude of 'it could happen here' where safeguarding is concerned.
To be proactive to provide a safe and secure environment in which pupils can learn.
To ensure ALL children have opportunities to communicate and know that they are listened to.
To consider at all times, what is in the best interests of the pupil with a child - centred approach.
To contribute to, and maintain a high safeguarding ethos with our school, with safeguarding pupils at the forefront of practice at all times.
Child - on child abuse is defined as abuse between children. Anderton has a zero tolerance approach to abuse, including child - on - child abuse.
Reporting Concerns
The school's designated safeguarding lead will deal with any safeguarding concerns you may have. If you have any safeguarding concerns, or questions about safeguarding at Anderton, please phone the school office on 01257 480551.
Designated safeguarding lead (DSL) - Mrs Norton - Smith (Headteacher)
Deputy DSL - Mrs Laithwaite (Deputy Headteacher), Mrs Rushton, Mr O'Donohoe, Mr Fitztilley, Mrs Shepherd
Early Help Lead Porfessional - Mrs Laithwaite
Family Liaison Officer - Mrs Shepherd
Safer Recruitment Lead - Mrs Norton - Smith, Mrs Laithwaite
Safeguarding Governor - Mr Frost (Chair of Governors)
Early Help
We seek to support our families under the Early Help offer, referring and signposting families to support and when completing applications within the local authority. We action support at the earliest opportunity through a variety of avenues to be able to fully support our children and their families.
The Lancashire Early Help offer can be found here
The Children and Family Well Being Service offer can be found here
Operation Encompass
Our school is participating in the Operation Encompass partnership scheme, between local school, academies, colleges, community health agencies, and Lancashire Police.
Operation Encompass was set up to provide early reporting to schools etc, about any domestic abuse incidents that occur outside of school hours to which a young person attending our school has been exposed, and which might then have an impact on their schooling the following day. This information will be shared throughout the year, including school holidays and the weekends.
Information will only be shared with the school by the police where it is identified that a young person was present, witnessed or was involved in a domestic abuse incident.
A nominated member of school staff, known as an Encompass Key Adult, has been trained to liaise with the police. In our school they are our school Designated Safeguarding Lead (Mrs Rachel Norton-Smith) They will be able to use information that has been shared with them, in confidence, to ensure that the school is able to make provision for possible difficulties experienced by children or their families. The Key Adults will keep this information confidential, and will only share it on a need to know basis, for instance, to teaching staff for the child or young person. It will not be shared it with other school students.
Operation Encompass was first introduced in Plymouth in February 2011, and has proved very effective in providing appropriate and timely support to young people affected by domestic abuse. This initiative has been implemented across the whole of the Lancashire Police area. If you would like some more information about it, you can view it online at www.operationencompass.org
We are keen to offer the best support possible for our pupils and a recent review of Operation Encompass showed that it is beneficial and supportive for all those involved.
