St. Joseph's Catholic Primary Academy

Healds Road, Dewsbury, WF13 4HY01924 462053

Parent Information  »  Safeguarding inc. eSafety

Designated Safeguarding Leads in school

If you have any concerns regarding your safety or anyone else's safety, please talk to:

Safeguarding Lead
   
Mr J Cooper     

Deputy Safeguarding Leads
Mrs H Walsh Mrs S Proctor Mrs S Bowler Mrs L Marsden
 

If you have concerns about online safety at home, please contact school and access support at:

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/
Thinkuknow is the education programme from NCA-CEOP, a UK organisation which protects children both online and offline.  It provides help and support for parents and children by age range.

https://www.ceop.police.uk/Safety-Centre/
This site offers the opportunity to make a report about online abuse or how someone is communicating to one of CEOP's child protection advisors.  It also has age appropriate support for children.

You can also access these sites by clicking on the logos at the bottom of our website pages.

https://parentzone.org.uk/
This site helps parents develop the right skills and understanding, so that their children can discover the possibilities and opportunities available to them online. 

You can also access our Online Safety policy in the policies section of this website.

Further information on our esafety curriculum can be found below. 
 

eSafety Curriculum 

Further information about eSafety and the curriculum can be found here: https://www.stjosephsdewsbury.co.uk/page.php?id=7478

Pupil absences - school safeguarding procedures

All absences must be reported to the school office by 8.50am each day.  If the office staff are not aware of a reason for your child's absence, you will be contacted by Schoolping/Classdojo/telephone to confirm the reason for absence.

If we are unable to communicate to a parent/carer and therefore have no reason for the absence, we will try to speak to other contacts we have on record.

If no contact has been made after 30 minutes, a Safe and Well visit to the pupil's home address may be carried out by a Designated Safeguarding Lead and colleague, to ensure your child is safe. 

This is a safeguarding requirement for all schools. 

Please help us to reduce the work involved in checking a pupil absence, by always leaving an absence message on the school number 01924 462053.  This message can be left at any time - for example, if your child is unwell in the night you can ring school and leave a message that the office can pick up in the morning.

Thank you for your assistance in this important matter.

Operation Encompass - Supporting children affected by domestic violence



 

Operation Encompass is a police and education early information sharing partnership enabling schools to offer immediate support for children and young people experiencing domestic abuse. Information is shared by the Education Safeguarding Service in Kirklees with a Designated Safeguarding Lead in school prior to the start of the next school day after police officers have attended a domestic abuse incident, thus enabling appropriate support to be given, dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child.

 

Children experiencing domestic abuse are negatively impacted by this exposure; domestic abuse has been identified as an Adverse Childhood Experience and can lead to emotional, physical and psychological harm. Operation Encompass aims to mitigate this harm by enabling immediate support, making a child's day better and giving them a better tomorrow.

Please be assured that Operation Encompass information is stored in line with all other confidential safeguarding and child protection information in school.

We are keen to offer the best support possible to all our pupils and we believe Operation Encompass is extremely beneficial for all those involved.  If you have any concerns please remember that the Safeguarding Team can be contacted at school.