Safeguarding means

• Protecting children from abuse and maltreatment.
• Preventing harm to children’s health or development.
• Ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care.
• Taking action to enable all children and young people to have the best outcomes.
• Child protection is part of the safeguarding process. It focuses on protecting individual children identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. This includes child protection procedures which detail how to respond to concerns about a child.

Who should I contact?

If you have any safeguarding concerns please don't hesitate to contact us at school. We have a designated safeguarding team consisting of:

• Designated Safeguarding Lead: Mrs Linda Thompson
• Pastoral Leads & Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads : Mrs Julie Lincoln & Mrs Ailsa Fletcher
• Deputy Safeguarding Lead: Mrs Jenny Morrell
• Deputy Safeguarding Lead: Miss Helen Daniels
• Deputy Safeguarding Lead: Mrs Loren Hogg
• Safeguarding Governor: Mrs Anne Tudor

Sefton Social Care 

If you are worried that a child may be suffering significant harm, or if you are concerned that a child has suffered harm, neglect or abuse, please follow the advice below.

Members of the public can:

• Call the Social Care phone advice line on 0151 934 2196 between the following hours:
  Monday to Thursday – 9am to 5.30pm
  Fridays – 9am to 5pm

• Contact the emergency duty team (CHAT) on 0151 934 4013 for urgent advice outside of the above hours, and at weekends. If you think a child is in immediate danger call for police assistance.

Please provide as much information as possible in order for them to respond to your concerns.

At Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, we strive to provide a caring environment where everyone in our school community feels safe, confident, valued and respected. We participate in a police-led initiative called Operation Encompass. This is a partnership between schools and the police that helps schools to better support any child where a domestic incident has been reported to police from their home.

Following a domestic incident, the police will make contact with the child’s school via a secure email (within 15 minutes) and will communicate relevant information to our fully trained safeguarding team. This will ensure that, as a school, we are made aware early enough, to support children and young people in a way that means they feel safe, supported and listened to. It will also provide an opportunity for school to offer support to the whole family. Our aim is to ensure that everyone can live and work together, enabling all to reach their full potential - emotionally, socially and intellectually.

The initiative was launched force-wide at the beginning of 2015. It is active in all Merseyside schools. You can find out more about Operation Encompass via the following site.