SafeGuarding

The purpose of early help is to prevent any issue from getting worse by offering families support at the right time. Any professional working with your family, such as those based in schools, health services, and in voluntary sector organisations, can offer early help services as soon as they can see that advice, support and/or intervention may be needed.

Early help works best when it's offered to the whole family and when services are delivered jointly by professionals.

Early Help Assessments (EHA) are how professional identify and asses your family's needs.

We complete the assessment with your family and a range of different organisations, such as schools and health services. This is so the support given meets the needs of the whole family. An EHA means everyone can make sure the support is working and making a difference to your family. It also helps to improve local services for everyone.

Each locality team is made up of staff from different professional backgrounds including early years, children centres, family outreach, youth services and other specialist services. Locality teams work with other partner agencies such as schools, health, police, community safety team, housing providers, probation and substance misuse providers to support children and families.

Please contact the pastoral team if you would like to discuss an early help referral.

Operation Encompass

Sandbach High School is committed to working in partnership with local relevant organisations to safeguard and protect children across Cheshire and provide the best possible care and support for our pupils.

In conjunction with Cheshire Police, Sandbach High School is part of a project 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 will often 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. 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.

If you would like to speak to someone further about Operation Encompass, or require any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Nicki Oyler – Designated Lead for Safeguarding.

You can find out more by visiting www.operationencompass.org

Mental Health

Sandbach High School strives to educate young people about their mental health and emotional wellbeing, removing the stigma relating to mental illness, referring students to services that support students both in school and in the community. Sandbach High School works with other schools, the NHS, local authorities, voluntary and community services, promoting and signposting local services.

Follow the link to the mental health section of our website for more information

Online Safety

E-safety or online safety is all about minimising risk. It’s about being aware of the possible threats that online activity can bring, and how to deal with them.
These risks are grouped into four categories:

• Conduct: children’s behaviour may put them at risk
• Content: access to inappropriate or unreliable content may put children at risk
• Contact: interaction with unsuitable, unpleasant or dangerous people may put children at risk
• Commercialism: children’s use of platforms with hidden costs may put them at risk.

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) is a command of the National Crime Agency, and is dedicated to tackling the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and young people. CEOP is here to help young people (up to age 18) who have been forced or tricked into taking part in sexual activity with anyone online or in the real world. For more information and advice or to report concerns directly, click on this link.

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