St James's CE Primary School

Telephone: 01706 214134
Email: [email protected]
Address: St James' CE Primary School,
Regent Street, Haslingden, Lancashire, BB4 5HQ

Safeguarding at St James’ CE Primary School

Safeguarding procedures at Haslingden St James’ CE Primary School are underpinned by three key principles:
  • Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility: all staff, governors and volunteers play their full part in keeping our children safe and protecting them from abuse, neglect and other safeguarding concerns.
  • We operates a child-centred approach: a clear understanding of the needs, wishes, views and voices of children.
  • All staff, governors and volunteers have a clear understanding regarding abuse and neglect in all forms; including how to identify, respond and report. This also includes knowledge in the process for allegations against professionals.
EARLY HELP
We seek to support families under our Early Help umbrella, referring and signposting families to support and completing applications (EARLY HELP ASSESSMENT FORM) in this respect 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 families.
If you have any questions about safeguarding at St James’ CE Primary School, please feel free to call the school office during school hours on 01706 214 134 and we will do our best to answer your questions or direct you to the correct person.
Safeguarding is reported termly to Governors via a formal report. Safeguarding procedures are under contact review. Please find the latest Child Protection and Safeguarding policy here.
Safeguarding Policy 2022-2023
CEOP
St James' Online Safety Page
Reporting Concerns
Operation Encompass
Private Fostering
Reporting Concerns

Reporting Concerns

The school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead will deal with any safeguarding concerns you may have as a matter of the highest priority.
Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) – Mr G Lloyd (Deputy Head Teacher)
Deputy DSL – Miss F Brady (Headteacher)
Deputy DSL – Mrs K Jamil (SENCO)
Safer Recruitment Lead – Miss F Brady (Headteacher)
The Nominated Link Safeguarding Governor is: Mrs D Gittins
Operation Encompass
Operation Encompass
At Haslingden St James’ Primary School we are working in partnership with the local 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.
Operation 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’, such as the Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher and Class Teacher or named Support Staff, 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 Team 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. We will record this information and store this information in line with our Safeguarding Policy.
Private Fostering
Private Fostering
Private fostering is when a child under the age of 16 (under 18 if the young person is disabled) is cared for by someone who is not their parent or a close relative. For this purpose, ‘close relatives’ are defined as grandparents, brothers, sisters, uncles or aunts.
People can be private fostering for many different reasons, such as:
  • a young person has fallen out with their own family, and lives with a family friend.
  • they are a host family for an overseas student at a nearby private school.
  • a person’s partner has gone away for some reason, and left their birth child with you.
If you – or someone you know – are in a similar situation, and have a young person living with you who is not a close relative, by law, you need to make your local authority aware.

What do our coloured Lanyards mean in school?

In school, we welcome a range of adults who visit and work with our children throughout the school – ranging from Parent visits to School Governors. So our staff and children can identify these people clearly, we encourage our children to be aware of our Colour Lanyard system to help all our children remain safe at school at all times.
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