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title: "Safeguarding"
url: "https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/safeguarding"
school: "Jericho Primary School"
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# Safeguarding
- Safeguarding
- Operation Encompass
- The Prevent Duty
- Mental Health and Well-being
### Worried about a child
If you are worried about ANY child:
Please inform a member of school staff or our designated safeguarding leads. You can also ring Cumberland Safeguarding Hub on 0333 240 1727 OR email: safeguarding.hub@cumberland.gov.uk
**** telephone: **0808 800 5000**
### Safeguarding at Jericho
At Jericho Primary School, we strive to educate all our children in an environment where learning, respect and the community are promoted.
Safeguarding is the action we take to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm.
This is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play.
Safeguarding covers a broad agenda and aims to achieve the following:
- **Prevention:**( positive school atmosphere, teaching and pastoral support to pupils).
- **Protection :**( By following agreed procedures, ensuring staff are trained and supported to respond appropriately and sensitively to Child Protection concerns).
- **Support :**( ensuring children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes )
Our key aims as a school are to ensure:
- All our pupils are safe and protected from harm.
- Other elements of provision and policies are in place to enable pupils to feel safe and adopt safe practices;
- Staff, pupils, governors, visitors, volunteers and parents are aware of the expected behaviours’ and the school’s legal responsibilities in relation to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all of our pupils.
Our School recognises that it has an explicit duty to safeguard, protect and promote the welfare of children from abuse and to work together with other agencies to ensure adequate arrangements within our school to identify, assess and support those children who are suffering harm.
We believe that Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and as such our school aims to create the safest environment within which every pupil has the opportunity to strive and reach their potential. We recognise the importance of us ensuring our pupils know how to seek support, feel that they will be listened to and appropriate action taken. We will do this by endeavouring to work in partnership with other agencies and seek to establish effective working relationships with parents, carers and other colleagues to develop and provide activities and opportunities throughout our curriculum that will help to equip our children with the skills they need. This will include materials and learning experiences that will encourage our children to develop essential life skills and protective behaviours.
At Jericho, we follow, work in partnership and adhere to the Cumberland Safeguarding Children Partnership procedures and a direct link to their website is available at this link: [Click Here](https://cumbriasafeguardingchildren.co.uk/)
Any concerns or support sought will be via Cumbria Children's Services who strive to offer families with the support they require. They will work with us in an integrated way to improve outcomes for our children and their families. More information is available from their website: [Click Here](https://www.cumberland.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/children-and-families/child-protection-and-safeguarding/report-concern-about-child)
**Safeguarding** is about ensuring that everyone is **safe** from harm – **safe** from bullying, **safe** from people who could abuse, **safe** from discrimination or harassment – and that we all feel **safe** in our environment.
If you have any concerns with regards to your or another child talking helps. The **Designated Safeguarding Teachers** at Jericho Primary School are:
### Safeguarding Team
#### Mrs Penny Leck
##### Designated Safeguarding Leader
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#### Mrs Tab Barlow
##### Online Safety Leader
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#### Laura Ball
##### Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
#### James Blackwell
##### Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
#### Clare Hayes
##### Senior Mental Health Lead
We also have a nominated Governor who ensures our school meets the statutory requirements. Our Nominated Governor is Mrs Victoria Monkhouse.
You can view our current Safeguarding Policy and Child Protection Procedures by following the link below.
**[Policies](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/policies/)**
**Listen up, Speak up**
It’s up to all of us to keep children safe. **Safeguarding** is ‘everybody’s business’. The school has established a culture where everyone takes responsibility. The NSPCC is currently running a training programme which they would like all adults to sign up for. It is only ten minutes. Please open the following link to access the training: [Click Here](https://www.nspcc.org.uk/support-us/listen-up-speak-up/sign-up/)
### Child to Parent Violence
Information Booklet for Parents 370 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/jericho-primary-school/files/documents/information/9th-dec-2022.pdf)
**Below are some useful contact numbers:**
Domestic abuse – 08082000247
Childline – 08001111
NSPCC – 08088005000
### What is Operation Encompass?
Operation Encompass ensures that there is a simple telephone call or notification to a school’s trained Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), prior to the start of the next school day, after an incident of police attended domestic abuse where there are children related to either of the adult parties involved.
Operation Encompass is a police and education early information safeguarding partnership enabling schools to offer immediate support to children experiencing domestic abuse.
The information is given in strict confidence to a school’s DSL to enable support to be given dependent on the needs and wishes of the child.
Jericho Primary School engages with the Operation Encompass scheme.
To find out more click the link below:
**[Click Here](https://www.operationencompass.org/)**
Operation Encompass letter to parents and carers 173 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/jericho-primary-school/files/documents/information/opertion-encompass-letter-to-parents-from-schools.docx.pdf)
**Prevent** forms part of the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy and aims to prevent children and young people from getting drawn into terrorism. Below are two useful links which can help parents and carers ensure their child is staying safe online and not meeting people or visiting websites that would lead them to adopting, what we consider, to be extreme views and potentially becoming radicalised.
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**[http://www.educateagainsthate.com](http://www.educateagainsthate.com/)**
As a part of our curriculum, children are given the opportunity to explore the issues of diversity within Britain’s multicultural society. Our children are able to discuss such issues as tolerance and respect for people with different views and beliefs. This is explicitly referenced in our personal, social and health education curriculum. Further information on this work can be found on this website in our British Values page, which is under the section Our Curriculum.
If you see any content online related to terrorism, you can report it to the [Counter Terrorism Referral Unit](https://www.gov.uk/report-terrorism)
At Jericho, we recognise the need for a whole school approach to promoting positive SEMH. This is supported by our Senior Mental Health Leader - Clare Hayes.
### Mental Health Lead
#### Clare Hayes
Clare's role involves: being responsible for creating a whole-school approach to supporting mental health and wellbeing as well as an open culture in which staff and pupils alike can discuss their mental health and wellbeing openly.
**ELSA Support:**
Our ELSA is Mrs Little
### ELSA
#### Liz Little
In schools, ELSA stands for Emotional Literacy Support Assistants. ELSA support in schools is a project designed to help schools support the emotional needs of their pupils.
ELSA recognises that children and young people learn best when they feel happier and their emotional needs are being addressed.
This initiative was developed and supported by Educational Psychologists who used their knowledge of how children develop socially and emotionally and understood how to apply this to meet the needs of students.
ELSAs are trained to plan and deliver programmes of support to pupils in their school who may be experiencing temporary or long-term additional emotional needs.
Mental Health First Aiders:
### Mental Health First Aiders
#### Kathryn Milligan
#### Claire Nicholson
Our Mental Health First Aiders are: Kathryn Milligan and Claire Nicholson.
Youth Mental Health First Aiders have:
- An in-depth understanding of young people's mental health and the factors can affect wellbeing
- Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
- The confidence to step in, reassure and support a young person in distress
- Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgmental listening
- The knowledge to help a young person recover their health by guiding them to further support - whether that is through self-help sites, their place of learning, the NHS or a mix of these - engaging with parents, carers and external agencies where appropriate
- The ability to support a young person with a long-term mental health issue or disability to thrive
- The tools to help you look after your own mental health and wellbeing.
Support for parents and families
Place2Be a national mental health charity has a website: **[Parenting Smart website](https://parentingsmart.place2be.org.uk/).** This provides practical tips for parents, carers and families about how to support children's wellbeing.
Please see the following tip sheet to support parents and carers in talking about mental health with primary aged children from the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
[Parenting Advice Booklet](https://d1uw1dikibnh8j.cloudfront.net/media/11396/tmh-parent-leaflet-final-web-updated-by-ed-april-2020.pdf)
### Key Information
- [Admissions](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/admissions)
- [Attendance](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/attendance)
- [School Values](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/about-us/school-values)
- [Curriculum](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/curriculum)
- [Ofsted and Performance Data](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/ofsted-and-performance-data)
- [Safeguarding](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/safeguarding)
- [Behaviour](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/behaviour)
- [Personal development at Jericho Primary School](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/personal-development-at-jericho-primary-school)
- [SEN/D](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/sen-d)
- [Policies](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/policies)
- [Pupil Premium](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/pupil-premium)
- [Governors](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/governors)
- [PE and Sport Premium](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/pe-and-sport-premium)
- [British Values](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/british-values)
- [General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr)
- [Financial Information](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/financial-information)
- [Public Sector Equality Duty ](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/public-sector-equality-duty)
- [Climate Action Plan](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/climate-action-plan)
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#### Jericho Primary School
Windsor Court
Whitehaven
Cumbria
CA28 6UX
01946 514545
01946 514546
#### Useful Links
- [Contact Us](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/about-us/contact)
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- [Policies](https://www.jericho.cumbria.sch.uk/key-information/policies)
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