Safeguarding, Online Safety, Early Help and Prevent

At St Anne’s we actively promote the safety and well being of our pupils and staff. We adhere to the government and local authority guidance regarding safeguarding and child protection.

Our school’s Designated Safeguarding Leaders (DSL) are: Mrs J Webb, Mr J Davies and Mrs G Ferris.

Please read our school policies and access the web links below for further information. There are separate pages for our Early Help Offer and Operation Encompass which link to our school’s safeguarding.

 

Prevent

The aim of Prevent is a government programme to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Prevent also extends to supporting the rehabilitation and disengagement of those already involved in terrorism.

The Prevent duty requires specified authorities such as education, health, local authorities, police and criminal justice agencies (prisons and probation) to help prevent the risk of people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. It sits alongside long-established safeguarding duties on professionals to protect people from a range of other harms, such as substance abuse, involvement in gangs, and physical and sexual exploitation. The duty helps to ensure that people who are susceptible to radicalisation are supported as they would be under safeguarding processes.

Our school’s Prevent policies are listed above.

Some further reading can be found below:

https://www.educateagainsthate.com/parents/

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevent-duty-guidance/prevent-duty-guidance-for-england-and-wales-accessible

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/reporting-abuse/dedicated-helplines/protecting-children-from-radicalisation/

Radicalisation in schools and the Prevent Duty

Early Help

St Anne’s Early help offer can be viewed on the website link below.

Early Help Offer

 

If you have concerns about a child or your won child then there are various services that you can contact for advice and support.  The details are below for various agencies.

https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/children-education-families/early-years-childcare-and-family-support/family-support/children-and-family-wellbeing-service/

https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/children-education-families/early-years-childcare-and-family-support/family-support/parenting-support/

 

Lancashire Mind

Lancashire Mind is our local mental health charity, based in Chorley and dedicated to supporting the wellbeing of people across Lancashire. Their team works to promote positive mental health through prevention, education and early support, offering a wide range of services for children, young people, adults, schools and communities. Lancashire Mind provides wellbeing coaching, low‑cost therapy, housing and wellbeing support, school programmes, parent workshops, workplace training, and community projects designed to build resilience and improve mental health for all. They aim to create a Lancashire where everyone understands the importance of mental wellbeing and knows how to look after their own and others’ mental health. Families can find out more about their services or access support directly via the Lancashire Mind website.
There are some resources to support families at home below.

Resilience Workbook – Interactive

Digital Parent Wellbeing Support Packs

 

 

Bacup Children And Family Wellbeing Services

Contact Details

Address:

The Maden Centre,
Rochdale Road,
Bacup,OL13 9NZ

Telephone:

01706 237780

Email:

Janet.Whittaker2@lancashire.gov.uk

Map:

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A warm welcome to you from everyone at the Children and Family Wellbeing Service in Lancashire County Council.

Our service is here to provide early help on a whole range of issues affecting you and your family. In other words, offering you the right help, in the right place, at the right time.

We provide targeted services for children and young people across the age range 0-19yrs+. Working together with key partners, we aim to ensure that we have maximum impact on achieving positive outcomes for your family.

Our staff are skilled and committed to understanding your needs and identifying with you the right support to help you achieve your goals. Key workers can work with you on an individual basis offering a more tailored and targeted response and through our community based centres and outreach programmes, outreach workers offer a range of groups and drop in services to meet a range of needs. We work in partnership with other agencies in our community based centres, to ensure we can bring together the right support for you in your local area.

Our ‘What’s on guide’ aims to keep you as up to date as possible about what we can offer you and includes information on what specific groups and services are available at your nearest centre, in your local community.

You can also contact our ‘Talkzone’ service which is available every day of the year from 2pm – 10pm.
Call: 0800 511111
Text: 07786 511111
Talk online: http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/youthzone

For those families with younger children, you can also access a lot of advice and guidance on a full range of childcare services, resources and issues from the Family Information Service. Tel: 0300 123 6712 or email: lancsfis@lancashire.gov.uk

We are always pleased to hear your feedback and ideas about our service, so if you feel able to share with us, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We look forward to hearing from you and thank you for using our services.

Support Services in Rossendale 
Below are some groups and supports services that you can access for various members of your family.

Domestic Abuse Information

Below is information for help with domestic abuse.

Family Safeguarding

There are agencies that can help within a family.  Family Safeguarding is about working with the whole family. They work with parents to build on their strengths and identify positive changes.
NSPCC Positive Parenting Guidelines
The information booklet below helps with parenting and the recommended ‘do’s’ and ‘dont’s’ when it comes to discipline and boundaries that are safe.

Mental Health Support

Below are some websites and services with information on where to access mental health support for children and young people. Young Minds ahve various resoirces and signpost to CAHMS- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

Online Safety

Use the website below to report online sexual abuse.
Take a look at some online activities to help you and your children understand the importance of online safety.
Below is some further reading:

Sexual Abuse – NSPCC 

Below is some information about keeping children safe from sexual abuse. Children are taught about ‘PANTS’ and that their bodies are special and private.
Childline

Bullying

https://www.childline.org.uk/get-support/

https://www.childline.org.uk/toolbox/games/?in_type=good-link

https://anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-information/advice-and-support/if-youre-being-bullied/find-help-and-support

 

Concerned about a child

Children’s Social Care

https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/children-education-families/keeping-children-safe/social-care-support-for-children-and-families/

 

Call Children’s Social Care 0300 123 6720 or out of hours 0300 123 6722.

If you think a child is in immediate danger – don’t delay call the police on 999.

The NSPCC website has advice about the signs, symptoms and effects of child abuse and neglect.

 

As part of safeguarding our pupils at St Anne’s we recognise that peer on peer abuse can be a form of bullying and we aim to prevent this.

Below are some helpful websites relating to keeping children safe, anti bullying and mental health support.