Meet our Designated Safeguarding Team at Intack Primary School.

Safeguarding Children is Everybody's Responsibility

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as: protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.

Safeguarding is not just about protecting children from deliberate harm.  It relates to aspects of school life including:

• pupils’ health and safety
• the use of reasonable force
• meeting the needs of pupils with medical conditions
• providing first aid
• educational visits
• intimate care
• internet or e-safety
• appropriate arrangements to ensure school security, taking into account the local context

Are you concerned that a child is being abused or neglected?

If you are concerned about a child and you feel they are being abused, neglected or at risk of abuse/neglect, then you should consider making a safeguarding child referral.

Children’s advice and duty service (CADS)

The children's advice and duty service (CADS) is a single point of contact for professionals and members of the public, who want to get support or raise concerns about a child.

Contact details for members of the public.

You can call us:

Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm on 01254 666400

You can also report your concerns online:

NSPCC Website: www.nspcc.org.uk

Or you can also speak to:

NSPCC 0800 800 5000

Childline 0800 1111

Operation Encompass

Blackburn The Redeemer participates in Operation Encompass.

Operation Encompass is a unique Police and Education early intervention safeguarding partnership which ensures that a child/ young person's school/ college is informed, prior to the start of the next school day, that there has been a domestic abuse, vulnerable child or missing incident to which the child or young person has been exposed, and which might then have an impact on them in school/ college the following day.

Each school/ college is informed of all such incidents, not just those where an offence can be identified or those which are graded as high risk. The partnership recognises that all domestic abuse, vulnerable child and missing incidents can be harmful to children and young people.

This information will be shared throughout the year, including holidays and weekends. Information will only be shared with the school/ college by the police where it is identified that a young person was present, witnessed or was involved. 

A nominated member of staff, known as a Key Adult, has been trained to liaise with the police. The key adult is Miss Ross.

They will be able to use information that has been shared with them, in confidence, to ensure that the school makes provision for possible difficulties experienced by children or their families. The Key Adult will keep this information confidential and will only share it on a need-to-know basis, for instance, to teaching staff for the child or young person. It will not be shared with other school students.

IMPORTANT CONTACTS AND PHONE NUMBERS

If you are concerned about the safety or welfare of your child or a child you know or an adult you should act without delay:

• Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) | Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council -
• Elissa Harper LADO@blackburn.gov.uk  01254 506915
• Leanne Romney. Prevent Education Officer, Blackburn with Darwen 01254 666756
• Children’s Safeguarding Assurance Partnership  Children's Safeguarding Assurance Partnership - Safeguarding information, advice & guidance (safeguardingpartnership.org.uk)
• Children’s Advice & Duty Service (CADS)-  01254 666400 - Child protection | Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
• Emergency Duty Team (Out of hours) –  01254 587547
• Childline – 0800 1111
• NSPCC Child Protection Helpline – 0800 800 5000
• Adult Safeguarding Team-  01254 585949
• The WISH Centre – 01254 260465
• National Modern Slavery Helpline – 08000 121 700
• Crimestoppers –  0200 555 111
• 24 HOUR Domestic Abuse Line – 0202 2000 247
• Drug and Alcohol Service – 01254 495014
• Relate –  0300 100 1234
• Lancashire MIND – 01257 231660
• Respect and Men’s Advice Line – 0202 802 4040