About Safeguarding
Safeguarding at Fullwood
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is of paramount importance to all staff at Fullwood Primary School. Every decision we make puts the health and safety of the children first. We have rigorous and robust systems in place and all staff are regularly trained to ensure they understand the ever changing nature of safeguarding concerns and the policies and procedures in place to protect our children from harm.
Put simply, Safeguarding is;
Child Protection
Supporting Vulnerable Children
Duty of Care
At home, school and in the community
Taking Action
(where necessary)
Safeguarding Policy
There is a clear safeguarding policy at Fullwood, which supports our school vision statement and our ethos of ‘enabling every child to achieve their best’. All Fullwood staff understand that for this to happen, all children need to feel safe and valued. Through a policy that sets out clear expectations and processes, and high quality training, staff know what to do and follow safeguarding procedures consistently across the school by:
- Receiving concerns from children, parents, members of staff, visitors and governors
- Listening to children
- Processing information and making decisions on referrals
- Keeping records of concerns and actions
- Liaising with support agencies and parents/carers
- Offering or organising support where necessary
- Training colleagues
Our Designated Safeguard Lead (DSL) at Fullwood Primary is Mr Simon Ward – Head of School. Our Deputy Safeguard Leads are Rachel Bateman – Deputy Headteacher, Hanane Cilimkovic – Assistant Headteacher, Faye Meek – School Business Leader and Cherie Thompson – Parent Support Advisor.
Relevant Documents
Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023
Policies to refer to on our policies page:
- Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy
- Online Safety Policy
- Peer on Peer abuse allegation procedures
- Extremism and Radicalisation Policy
Operation Encompass
At Fullwood Primary School we are working in partnership with the Metropolitan Police and Children’s Services to identify and provide appropriate support to pupils who have experienced domestic violence in their household; this scheme is called Operation Encompass.
The purpose of 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 number 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 highlight 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.
In order to achieve this, the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub will share police information of all domestic incidents where one of our pupils has been present, with the Designated Safeguarding Lead(s) (DSL). On receipt of any information, the DSL will decide on the appropriate support the child requires, this should be covert, dependent on the needs and wishes of the child. All information sharing and resulting actions will be undertaken in accordance with the Metropolitan Police and MASH Encompass Protocol Data Sharing Agreement. We will record this information and store this information in accordance with the record keeping procedures outlined in our Safeguarding/Child Protection Policy.