DunburyChurch of England Academy
Dunbury Academy is committed to the safeguarding of all pupils.
We are dedicated to keeping all our children physically and emotionally safe. We work hard with families to offer support to enable our children to flourish.
The Designated Senior Lead with responsibility in school for Child Protection is Mrs E. Richardson
The Deputy DSLs are Mrs Leanne Legge (Early Years base) and Mrs J. Stoker (primary base)
If you have a Child Protection concern, please do not hesitate to contact the designated safeguarding leads.
The Family Support and Advice Line is 01305 228558 or the out-of-hours number 01305 221000.
They bring together the following agencies as part of Dorset Council’s work under the Families First for Children Pathfinder. It is the single point of contact and acts as a ‘front door’ for all safeguarding concerns and family help requests for support (previously Early Help) :
Dorset Education Advice Line (DEAL)
Children’s Advice and Duty Service (ChAD)
Family Help Hub (FHH)
Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
In an emergency, or if you believe a child is at immediate risk of harm, call the police on 999.
For further information please see Worried about a child – Dorset Council. You can also find tailored support at https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/children-families/family-hub/support-for-families
Private Fostering
Private fostering is when a child under the age of 16 (or 18 if disabled) lives with someone for 28 days or more who is not a:
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close relative such as a grandparent, sibling, uncle or aunt or step-parent
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guardian
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person with parental responsibility
The parent/s and the private foster carer would make this arrangement, not the local council.
Children who are privately fostered until their sixteenth birthday are entitled to a service from the local authority.
Please talk to us at school if you are aware of a private fostering arrangement.
Private fostering can happen if the child or young person:
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has parents who live overseas and they come to this country to attend school
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has parents who are ill and cannot look after them
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has been estranged from their families
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is attending language schools and staying with host families
Notify us about a private fostering arrangement
You must inform the local authority if you know about a child that is being or going to be privately fostered. By law, they must know of any arrangement. Dorset's Children's Services can then make sure the arrangement is suitable.
Inform the Children's Advice and Duty Service (ChAD) if you are:
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the parent/carer of the child or the private foster carer
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involved in the arrangement
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a social worker or from another local council
If you know someone is private fostering, please contact the Family Support and Advice Line on 01305 228558
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Dorset Council Private Fostering Click here for clear guidance on what to do next and contact details
Domestic Abuse
Operation Encompass
OUR KEY ADULTS ARE:
- Mrs E Richardson
- Mrs Jo Stoker
Operation Encompass Safeguarding Statement
Our school is part of Operation Encompass. This is a police and education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people who experience Domestic Abuse.
Operation Encompass means that the police will share information about Domestic Abuse incidents with our school soon after they have been called to a domestic incident.
All Key Adults (DSL/DDSL) have attended an Operation Encompass local briefing as well as national online training.
Our parents are fully aware that we are an Operation Encompass school.
The Operation Encompass information is stored in line with all other confidential safeguarding and child protection information.
The Key Adult has also led briefings for all school staff and Governors about Operation Encompass, the prevalence of Domestic Abuse and the impact of this abuse on children. We have also discussed how we can support our children following the Operation Encompass notification.
The Safeguarding Governor will report on Operation Encompass in the termly report to Governors. All information is anonymised for these reports.
The Key Adult has used the Operation Encompass Toolkit to ensure that all appropriate actions have been taken by the school.
Parental Information
Parent Info is a collaboration between CEOP https://www.ceopeducation.co.uk/ and Parent Zone https://parentzone.org.uk/
Parent Info provides high quality information to parents and carers about their children's wellbeing and resilience. This service is free and ranges across a wide range of subject matter, from difficult topics about development, relationships and the internet or body image and peer pressure to broader parenting topics like ‘how much sleep do teenagers need?’
In line with CEOP’s Thinkuknow programme, some of the content covers internet safety, but it all starts from the assumption that young people make little distinction between their online and offline lives and the issues for parents are often the same. The aim is to help parents help their children be discriminating, web-literate and resilient.
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Parent Zone Click for Parent Zone whose purpose is to help children face the digital future with confidence, to feel secure and to be resilient.