Welcome to the Bishop Alexander L.E.A.D. Academy Safeguarding section of our website. The safety and well-being of our pupils is a key priority for all.
Keeping Children Safe is EVERYONE’s Responsibility
We all have a duty of care to ensure that we support the safeguarding of all pupils and those that are deemed vulnerable. If you have a safeguarding concern and wish to speak to a member of the safeguarding team at the academy, please call: 01636 680040.
If your call is beyond the school day you can email safeguarding@bishopalexanderacademy.co.uk.
At the weekend or during the school holidays, you can call MASH on 0300 500 80 80. You will be able to share your concern with them.
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Responsible for: Staff Safeguarding Concerns/Attendance lead
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Responsible for: Prevent
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Responsible for: Welfare/Young Carers
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Responsible for: Looked After Children
Whilst with a child, if you become worried about:
You must report these concerns to a member of the Safeguarding Team.
Please report to the headteacher, if it is about the headteacher it must be reported to the Chair of Governors, Katherine Robertson on admin@bishopalexanderacademy.co.uk.
Operation Encompass is a project which Nottinghamshire Police run in partnership with local schools. The project aims to safeguard and support children who are affected by domestic abuse.
The project aims to safeguard and support children and young people who are involved in or affected by incidents involving domestic abuse. Witnessing domestic abuse is really distressing for a young person, who can often see the abuse, hear it from another room, see a parent’s injuries or distress afterwards or be physically hurt trying to stop the abuse.
Following an incident of domestic abuse in the home, children will often arrive at school upset and unprepared. Operation Encompass aims to ensure that appropriate school staff are made aware of the incident early enough to support children in the best way possible. After the police receive a report of abuse at a property at which a Bishop child is pupil, brief information will be shared with the school, directly from Nottinghamshire Police. This information will be handled by the school’s Safeguarding Team. This ensures support can be provided as quickly as possible and children can feel safe and listened to. We will receive a notification that there was an incident which will only state the name of the child. No further information regarding the incident will be given. This information will be shared throughout the year, including school holidays and during the weekends.
If you would like more information about Operation Encompass, you can view it online at www.operationencompass.org
Since the publication of the Prevent Strategy, there has been an awareness of the specific need to safeguard children, young people and families from violent extremism. There have been attempts to radicalise vulnerable children and young people to hold extreme views including views justifying political, religious, sexist or racist violence, or to steer them into a rigid and narrow ideology that is intolerant of diversity and leaves them vulnerable to future radicalisation.
Keeping children safe from these risks is a safeguarding matter and should be approached in the same way as safeguarding children from other risks. Children should be protected from messages of all violent extremism including, but not restricted to, those linked to extreme Islamist ideology, or to Far Right/Neo Nazi/White Supremacist ideology, various paramilitary groups, and extremist Animal Rights movements. Prevent, in the context of counter-terrorism is intervention before any criminal offence has been committed with the aim of preventing individuals or groups from committing crimes.
Every family goes through challenging times at some point. Working with families early prevents small problems becoming big problems.
Why would I want Family help?
There are lots of reasons why people look for help. It could be that you’re worried about your child’s health, development or behaviour, or how they’re doing at school, or perhaps because you are caring for a disabled child. It may be that you’re worried about money or housing and how that is affecting your family. Maybe your child or your family is affected by domestic abuse, drugs or alcohol or crime. Perhaps your child is a carer for other people, or maybe you’ve had a bereavement in the family that’s made life a real challenge.
Find out more by clicking on this link – Family Services
Please speak to a member of the Safeguarding Team if you would like to know more.
