What is Safeguarding?
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is our proactive commitment to keeping your child safe, healthy, and happy. In line with the government's Keeping Children Safe in Education guidelines, this means we work closely together to protect our pupils from harm, support their physical and mental wellbeing, and provide a secure, nurturing environment where every child has the opportunity to thrive and reach their full potential.
The Academy takes pupil welfare and safety very seriously, and takes action to reduce all kinds of harm including: abuse, bullying, discrimination and avoidable injuries. We also promote a culture where children and adults feel confident to share their concerns about their own or others’ safety and well-being.
All Oakway Academy all staff receive regular safeguarding training, and we continue to ensure that our staff, Directors, parents/carers and students work together to keep children safe.
If you are concerned about the immediate safety or wellbeing of a student, please call 01933 678714 (8am to 4pm).
If you believe that a child is in imminent danger, please contact the police by dialing 999.
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Right Help, Right Time
In Northamptonshire we recognise that at different times in families lives they may need help and support; the level of support required can be variable. Our approach ‘Right Help, Right Time’ (RHRT) aims to help identify and provide the right level of help, at the right time; so that children and families can have their needs met outside of statutory safeguarding processes at the earliest point. This is a shared ambition of the Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children’s Partnership (NSCP). This document is intended to be used as a framework for those who work with children and families to highlight and respond to the needs of vulnerable children. As a partnership we adopt a strengths based approach, recognising the individual strengths that children and families possess and supporting them to meet their potential. We do with and not to; with children’s voices and safety remaining central to all the work we do. Working together with children and families at their earliest point of need does and will continue to make a huge difference to the lives of children.
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Operation Encompass
At Oakway Academy we are working in partnership with North Northamptonshire Council and Northamptonshire Police to identify and provide appropriate support to pupils who have experienced domestic abuse in their household; nationally this scheme is called Operation Encompass.
In order to achieve this, North Northamptonshire Council will share police information with the Designated Safeguarding Lead(s) of all domestic incidents where one of our pupils has been affected. On receipt of any information, the Designated Safeguarding Lead will decide on the appropriate support the child requires, this could be silent or overt.
All information sharing and resulting actions will be undertaken in accordance with the ‘NSCB Protocol for Domestic Abuse – Notifications to Schools’. We will record this information and store this information in accordance with the recordkeeping procedures outlined in this policy.
For access to the poster in Arabic, Somali, Welsh, Gujurati languages, follow the link: Resources for educational settings : Operation Encompass