Our Academy Safeguarding Team are only available during core academy hours. If you have a concern about a child outside of these times, please contact the central Salford Safeguarding Team.

Salford City Council and our partners have a multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH) called the Bridge Partnership that screen all contacts concerning the welfare or safety of a child:

If a child is in immediate danger of being harmed or if a child is home alone contact the police on 999

Aside from the help we provide in school, should you have concerns about a child here are some helpful websites and contact numbers to help you.
 

Should you require help with food bank donations or financial support, please click see our list of local charities/food banks that may be able to help families during a period of school closure.

It is worth noting that families cannot just turn up to the foodbanks, you will need a food voucher first. For details of agencies who can provide these please visit: salford.foodbank.org.uk

We aim to promote positive mental health and wellbeing for our whole school community (children, staff, parents and carers), and recognise how important mental health and emotional wellbeing is to our lives in just the same way as physical health. School staff are often the key professionals when it comes to identifying and supporting children and young people’s mental wellbeing and are ideally placed to respond to the early signs of mental health difficulties in children and young people.

We’ve put together this booklet for our students and their families, packed with lots of tips for managing anxiety and looking after mental health and wellbeing, please click the link below to take a look:

We also produce a regular Safeguarding, Mental Health and Well-being Bulletin which we share with all our parents/carers via email each month. You can view past copies using the links below:

Operation Encompass is a police and education initiative to safeguard and support children and young people following a domestic abuse incident. When a child or young person has been involved in, or been exposed to, a domestic incident information is reported directly to the school’s trained ‘Key Adult’ prior to the start of the next school day. Appropriate support can then be offered to the child in school.

The short animation below has been designed by Salford Local Authority. It explains to children what Operation Encompass is and how our academy staff support them following an incident of Domestic Abuse where the Police attended.

You can also find out more at: operationencompass.org

The term ‘self harm’ means doing anything on purpose that causes harm to yourself. This can include; cutting, burning, overdosing or swallowing something dangerous or anything that causes harm to your body on purpose. At least 10% of adolescents report having self-harmed. Self harm is something that people do to help manage their emotions, what is sometimes called a ‘coping strategy’. Young people can self harm for a number of reasons. The most common is to help them cope with their feelings in response to situations such as; depression, low self-esteem, drug or alcohol abuse, bullying, family problems, abuse (physical, emotional or sexual) plus many more.

How can you help? The most constructive way to deal with self harm is to stay calm, try not to be alarmed or show your fears. There are many things that can help: it may be that the individual needs structured therapy from a mental health professional, or that the compassionate support of family and friends is enough to aid their recovery.

Find out more at: harmless.org.uk – a national voluntary organisation for people who self harm, their friends, families and professionals.

It is really important to ensure that, as a parent, you are aware of the risks your child is exposed to when using technology and the ways you can help your child stay safe and understand online dangers.

Find out more at:

‘Prevent’ was established by the government as part of its’ wider counter-terrorism strategy called CONTEST. Prevent’s aim is to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism and as a school we have responsibility to follow procedures to protect our students from radicalisation and extremism.

The Prevent strategy has three objectives:

Click HERE to access the full Prevent Strategy Review

The Department for Education has a helpline for anyone concerned about a child who may be at risk of extremism. Email: counter.extremism@education.gsi.gov.uk Telephone: 020 7340 7264.

The Government definition of domestic abuse is:

Any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality. This includes: Psychological, Physical, Sexual, Financial and Emotional.

For more information and help see these sources:

Salford Safeguarding Children Partnership: safeguardingchildren.salford.gov.uk/parents-and-carers/

Salford Independent Domestic Abuse Support Services: 0161 793 3232

National Domestic Violence Helpline: 0808 2000 247 (24 hours)

Greater Manchester Police: 101

Housing Advice: housing.advicecentre@salford.gov.uk

Salford City Council: 0161 793 2500 / 0161 794 8888 (Out of hours)

St. Mary’s Sexual Assault Crisis Line: 0161 276 6515

Greater Manchester Victim Support: 0300 303 0162

Talk Listen Change (TLC): enquiries@talklistenchange.org.uk

Respect Phoneline (for perpetrators): 0808 802 4040

Respect Men’s Advice Line (male victims): 0808 801 0327