Safeguarding
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families has a role to play.
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined for the purposes of this guidance as:
• protecting children from maltreatment;
• preventing the impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development;
• ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and
• taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.
Child protection is part of the safeguarding process. It focuses on protecting individual children identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. This includes child protection procedures which detail how to respond to concerns about a child.
Safeguarding children and child protection guidance and legislation applies to all children up to the age of 18.
Any concerns about a child can be reported to one of our Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) or you can report them directly to social services.
| Natalie Miller (Designated Safeguarding Lead and Assistant Head) |  |
| Ali Mohsin (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and Pastoral Lead) |  |
| John Maxwell (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and Headteacher) |  |
| Jo Fish (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and Deputy Headteacher) |  |
| Katie Glennon (Safeguarding Governor) | |
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Front Door for Families Brighton and Hove Social services |
Phone 01273 290400 https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/families-children-and-learning/tell-us-if-you-are-worried-about-child |
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SPOA Single Point of Advice East Sussex Social Services |
In an emergency call 999 otherwise contact the Single Point of Advice (SPOA) team:
Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 5pm, Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm |
Please click here to find our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy (this is awaiting ratification).
Operation Encompass
Operation Encompass is a partnership between police and schools.
One of the principles of Operation Encompass is that all incidents of domestic abuse are shared with schools, not just those where an offence can be identified. The aim is to enable staff in every school to understand how to support children who are experiencing domestic abuse, and for the child to receive timely support.
Every school appoints a trained Key Adult – the Key Adult is the person who receives information about police attended Domestic Abuse incidents. At Saltdean Primary School, the Key Adults are Natalie Miller and Jo Fish.
To find out more about operation Encompass, please follow this link: https://www.operationencompass.org/