North Liverpool Academy

North Liverpool Academy is committed to safeguarding children and promoting children’s welfare and expects all staff, governors, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment and maintain a vigilant and safe environment.

Our Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy and other linked policies can be accessed through the Policies page.

Here are some helpful links.

Key Safeguarding Staff

Direction of Inclusion and Designated Safeguarding Lead: Gemma Perischine

Inclusion Manager & Deputy DSL: Laura Murphy

Safeguarding Link Governor: Rod Dubrow-Marshall

The nominated governor for dealing with allegations against the Principal: Prof. Rod Dubrow-Marshall (Chair of Governors).

NLA Family/Early Help Offer

At North Liverpool Academy we are committed to identifying and supporting pupils and their families at the earliest opportunity to ensure every child reaches their full potential. Working in partnership with parents/carers and a range of local services our Family/Early Help Offer provides timely/targeted support to prevent issues from escalating. This may include help with attendance, behaviour, and emotional wellbeing. Through early identification and a coordinated approach, we strive to provide the right help, at the right time, to achieve positive outcomes for every child.

More information on Liverpool Safeguarding Children Partnerships (LSCP) Family Help Offer can be found here:

Liverpool Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) - Early Help

Keeping children safe online

Please click on the following links to find useful information about helping to keep children safe:

Parentzone
Internet Matters
The Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre (CEOP) covers a range of safety issues and offers guidance and advice for both parents and young people.
Thinkuknow

Mental Health

Mental Health and Well-Being

Our aim is to provide mental health and well-being advice, support and signposting for all students, parents and staff.

We all have mental health and good mental health is a valuable asset that will allow you to complete tasks effectively and efficiently.

In order for us to support mental health and well-being, we have a number of projects, support sessions, lessons, external agencies and activities in school.

We are continually updating our knowledge to allow us to drive forward our aim and to provide a platform that can be accessed by all.

Healthy relationships

Government advice for parents on young people and gangs: Advice to Parents and Carers PDF.
It’s Not Okay

Other

Operation Encompass

In conjunction with Merseyside Police, North Liverpool Academy is involved in an initiative called Operation Encompass.

The purpose of Operation Encompass is to safeguard and support children and young people who have been involved in, heard or witnessed a domestic abuse incident. Following such an incident, children can arrive at school distressed, upset, worried and unprepared. Operation Encompass aims to ensure that appropriate school staff (called Key Adults) are made aware early enough to support children and young people in a way that means they feel safe and included.

At North Liverpool Academy our Key Adults are Gemma Perischine (Designated Safeguarding Lead) and Laura Murphy (Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead).

This is a valuable initiative that means we can continue to support and help children and families within our school community when they need it the most.

Our school is part of a project, which is run between Merseyside schools and Merseyside Police. The project called Operation Encompass, has been designed to provide early reporting of any domestic violence incidents that occur outside school, which might have an impact on a child in school. This is done through a notification to school following an incident.

The project ensures that at least one member of the school staff, known as the Key Adult, is trained to liaise with the police and to use the information that has been shared, in confidence. In this way, we aim to support each child who has been involved in, or witnessed, a domestic abuse incident.

The Key Adults at North Liverpool Academy are Gemma Perischine and Laura Murphy. If they receive an Encompass notification they will make sure that a person the child trusts is available to help - if the child needs this.

A lot of the time this support is silent; keeping a careful eye on him or her and make sure the child has a calm school day.

The confidential information is ordinarily not shared with all staff, just an agreement on how to help, if needed.

All schools have a duty to share any information with other organisations if they feel a child is at risk of being hurt. The Key Adults may contact other organisations. This is described in our child protection policy.

The sharing of information from the Police allows the school to be ready to help your child straight away, and it means that parents are aware that the Key Adult knows that something has happened. Parents can come and talk to our Key Adults at any time. The Key Adults can point you towards other people that can help. Our aim is to support children and their families.

The current procedures for reporting Domestic Abuse incidents to schools can involve a lengthy delay in the transfer of information, which means that our children are left without the support and nurture that they need when they need it most. Operation Encompass has been created to address this so that by the start of the next school day, the school’s Key Adults will have been informed that the child or young person has been involved, heard, or witnessed a domestic incident. This knowledge, given to schools through Operation Encompass, allows the provision of immediate early intervention through silent or overt support dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child.

You can find our more by visiting www.operationencompass.org or by contacting our Key Adult.