Shiphay Learning Academy 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." 

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 Shiphay Learning Academy. This communication helps to ensure that no child is lost when transferring schools.

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.

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Childline supports more than 200,00 children and young people each year.  

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