Oldway Primary School
Safeguarding
Statement of Safeguarding Children
Keeping Children Safe is Everyone’s Responsibility
Our school has a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of all of our children. This means that we have safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures in place, in line with Torbay Safeguarding Children Partnership. All adults working at Oldway, including staff, volunteers, visitors, kitchen staff and trainee teachers, must ensure that they are aware of our school procedures for sharing concerns.
Sometimes, we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child's welfare. We will always ensure that our concerns about pupils are discussed with their parents/carers first, unless we have reason to believe that this is not in the child's best interests or a child is at significant risk of harm or in immediate danger.
Sharing a safeguarding concern about a child:
Oldway's Designated Safeguarding Lead is Miss Eva Rowe (Family Support Worker, DSL)
In their absence, safeguarding concerns cab also be shared with Mrs Emma Bamber, Mr Chris Hallett and Mrs Zoe Milligan.
Sharing a safeguarding concern about an adult working at Oldway:
Please contact the Head of School, Mrs Emma Bamber.
Sharing a safeguarding concern about the Head of School:
Please contact Mrs Becky Ross, Chair of Governors via clerk@rivieraet.co.uk or on 01803 557190 ext. 103.
If you have concerns about any child, you can contact Children’s Services Social Care directly on: 01803 208100 or out of hours: 0300 456 4876.
Information sharing between agencies supporting young people
Oldway Primary School is supported by the Torbay Education Safeguarding Service (TESS). Working closely with Social Care and other partners such as the police and health, this support helps us to ensure that we can support our pupils when there are additional needs, and ultimately improve outcomes for them. In that context, TESS have provided the following paragraph to let you know of the main aspects of information shared.
Information from the Police and Social care
“Torbay Education Safeguarding Service (TESS) is a social work led service working in partnership with schools and social care to promote the welfare of children and young people, and to ensure they are safe from harm. As part of their work, they will receive information from partner agencies, such as the police and social care. The police send a daily Public Protection Notice (PPN). This is generated if there has been an incident when the police are called to any household where a child is resident. It may be that the incident relates to only of one your children, however, it is likely that any police involvement with one member of the household may affect all of the siblings.
There may be occasions when you have not consented to the sharing of the information. For minor incidents, if you withhold consent to share information TESS will not receive an alert. However, incidents graded medium or high are shared with schools as these are deemed potential child protection matters. This principle is similar to that employed by the police for Operation Encompass, an initiative managed by the police and nothing to do with TESS.
In addition, the police send all missing and found notifications. These are forwarded to all schools
for information.
If information is shared, this will be in accordance with the key principles of the Data Protection Laws on a need-to-know basis and will only occur to help schools protect and promote the welfare of your son or daughter. When there is any sharing of information, schools should discuss this with you to enable a partnership approach to meeting the needs of your son or daughter.
If you have any questions about the service please ask your school, or telephone Sarah James, TESS Team Manager: 07525 815441."
CPOMS
What is CPOMS?
CPOMS (Child Protection Online Management System) is the market leading software application for monitoring child protection, safeguarding and a whole range of pastoral and welfare issues. CPOMS is an intuitive system to help with the management and recording of child protection, behavioural issues, bullying, SEND, domestic issues and much much more. Using CPOMS, schools can ensure that students are safe and fully supported.
Every member of staff across school has an obligation to report any concerns which they may have. CPOMS allows them to record information in a central repository and have relevant people alerted.
CPOMS can also be used to transfer files from and to other schools when pupils join or leave Roselands Primary School. This communication helps to ensure that no child is lost when transferring schools.
Operation Encompass
Our school is part of Operation Encompass which is a national scheme that operates jointly between schools and police forces.
Operation Encompass is the reporting to schools, prior to the start of the next school day, when a child or young person has experienced domestic abuse.
As a school, we have ensured that a member of our staff, (Designated Safeguarding Lead) known as a Key Adult, has been trained in the Operation Encompass procedures, allowing us to then use the information that has been shared, in confidence, to support the child/ren in our care.
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 identifies children who experience domestic abuse as victims of domestic abuse in their own right.
We are keen to offer the best support possible to all our pupils and we believe this will be extremely beneficial for all those involved.
Our school is part of Operation Encompass which is a national scheme that operates jointly between schools and police forces.
Operation Encompass is the reporting to schools, prior to the start of the next school day, when a child or young person has experienced domestic abuse.
As a school we have ensured that a member of our staff, (Designated Safeguarding Lead) known as a Key Adult, has been trained in the Operation Encompass procedures, allowing us to then use the information that has been shared, in confidence, to support the child/ren in our care.
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 identifies children who experience domestic abuse as victims of domestic abuse in their own right.
We are keen to offer the best support possible to all our pupils, and we believe this will be extremely beneficial for all those involved.
Childline
Childline is the UK’s free 24-hour service for children and young people. Run by the NSPCC, Childline gives children and young people up to the age of 19 confidential support with whatever is worrying them.
Since the service began in 1986, it has carried out over 5.9 million counselling sessions with young people.
Childline supports more than 200,00 children and young people each year. 
Find out about Childline’s unique offer on NSPCC Learning.
PREVENT
Prevent is part of the government's overall counter-terrorism strategy which is called CONTEST. The aim of Prevent is to reduce the threat from terrorism by stopping people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. To find out more please visit the links below. If you have any terrorist concerns please speak with the Prevent Lead, Miss Helen Braund.
Additional Safeguarding Links
Policies
Please email: clerk@rivieraet.co.uk if you would like to request any of the policies in a different format.