Keeping safe Page
At Sherwood we take our commitment to helping keep children safe extremely seriously, in school, out of school and online.
In School
At school Mrs Keen, Mr Brothwood and Miss Palmer are the lead teachers for Safeguarding. This means if you have any questions, suggestions or concerns about any child's health, safety or well being you can always come and talk to them.
Our family support worker, Jade Castledine, is also a person you could talk to about anything to do with children's well being as she knows of other organisations for advice and support.
Online Safety
The most important thing that you can do to keep children safe online is be interested in what they are doing online. From an early age, talk to them about how to stay safe and listen to any concerns they have.
If you are worried about online sexual abuse or the way someone has been communicating with you online you can contact the 'Child protection and online protection safety centre' (CEOP) on the link below.
https://www.ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/
NSPCC
Operation Encompass - Information for parents
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. Information is shared by the police with a school's trained Key Adult (DSL) prior to the start of the next school day after officers have attended a domestic abuse incident thus enabling appropriate support to be given, dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child.
Children experiencing domestic abuse are negatively impacted by this exposure; domestic abuse has been identified as an Adverse Childhood Experience and can lead to emotional, physical and psychological harm. Operation Encompass aims to mitigate this harm by enabling immediate support, making a child's day better and giving them a better tomorrow.
Operation Encompass believes that children are victims of domestic abuse in their own right and should be acknowledged as such.
Further information can be found https://www.operationencompass.org/
Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy has been updated to reflect this new procedure. Our Senior DSL is Mrs Keen.
This short animation explains to children what Operation Encompass is and how their school supports them following an incident of Domestic Abuse where the Police attended.
