At Warren Primary Academy, all stakeholders who work with us fully recognize the contribution the school makes to safeguarding children. We recognize that the safety and protection of all pupils is of paramount importance and that all staff, including volunteers, have a full and active part to play in providing early help protecting pupils from harm. We believe that the school should provide a caring, positive, safe and stimulating environment, which promotes all pupils’ social, physical, emotional and moral development.
Children have a right to be cared for and protected, protecting them is everyone’s responsibility. Here at Warren Academy, we have a duty of care to ensure that all users of the school are kept safe from harm. We are committed to provide a secure and supportive environment in which children can develop and grow into mature and responsible people. Safeguarding children is an essential part of our holistic approach to ensure that children are protected from abuse and neglect and that every child reaches their full potential.
Effective safeguarding of children can only be achieved by putting children at the centre and by every individual and agency playing their full part; working together to meet the needs of our most vulnerable children; in line with Working Together to Keep Children Safe 2018 and Keeping Children Safe in Education (KSCIE) 2023.
Further information about safeguarding at Warren can be found in our safeguarding policy, and additional policy documents below.
If you are concerned about a child at Warren, please speak to a member of our safeguarding team.
As a parent or member of the public, we all have a duty of care to ensure that we support the safeguarding of all young people and those who are deemed vulnerable. If you have a safeguarding concern during the hours of Monday to Friday between 8 am and 5 pm, if you believe someone’s life is in immediate danger then you should call 999, otherwise you can call MASH ( multi agency safeguarding hub). They can be reached on you will be able to discuss and share you concern with them, you can remain anonymous, however, it is helpful if you are able to share who you are, which will remain confidential. This allows them to be able to filter out malicious calls.
If you have a concern which is out of usual hours, where someone’s life is in immediate danger then you must call 999, However, if you feel that you are concerned and it doesn’t quite meet the threshold of a 999 call you can contact Nottingham City Social Care Out of hours emergency duty team on 0300 456 4546.
For other concerns, you can also contact Nottingham City or Nottinghamshire County Safeguarding teams:
Nottingham City Children and Families Safeguarding Team: 0115 876 4800
Nottingham City Safeguarding Partnership
Nottinghamshire Children and Families Safeguarding Team: 0300 500 80 80
Further mental health and wellbeing support services in Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County:
Our academy safeguarding curriculum for each key stage can be found here:
Key Stage 1
Warren-KS1-Safeguarding-Curriculum
Warren-KS2-Safeguarding-Curriculum
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 Warren Academy pupil is registered to, brief information will be shared with the school, directly from Nottinghamshire Police. This information will be handled by the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead. 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
Every family goes through challenging times at some point. Early help means working with you and your family so that small problems don’t become big problems. Early help is for everybody, for families with children and young people of any age. And it’s your choice whether to have it or not.
Why would I want early help?
There are lots of reasons why people look for early 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.
Please speak to a member of the Safeguarding Team if you would like to know more.
