Safeguarding

At St Rose’s safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and our staff are committed to identifying concerns and collaborating with other organisations. We aim to create an environment where our students feel valued, respected and able to communicate with the adults in our school if they are unhappy or upset. We will always act in the best interests of our students, following both statutory and specialist guidelines and all staff receive mandatory child protection training and receive regular safeguarding updates and training.

Early Help

Early Help is a key part of St Rose’s safeguarding strategy. Early Help is the right help at the right time. It is about identifying problems at an early stage and providing purposeful and effective help as soon as possible to prevent those problems escalating and becoming more complex to resolve.

Early Help at St Rose’s

At St Rose’s, we understand that our families face many challenges. By reaching out early, we can reduce the number of neglected children and young people, improve their health, and boost their life chances. Our offer of early help is about a consensual agreement with parents and carers to collaborate with partners, to help children, young people and their families deal with their issues as early as possible. We do this by providing support, information, and advice and by signposting families to other services that can provide support or making a referral.

Safeguarding Team

St Rose’s safeguarding team for children and young people:
Lisa Taylor – DSL (Nursery Manager)
Jo Pearch – DDSL (Lead Nurse/Care Manager)

Julie Dyer – Governor for Safeguarding

St Rose’s safeguarding team for adults:
Sheila Talwar – DSL (Principal)
Mike King – DDSL (Head of College)
Abi Clark – DDSL (Deputy Head of College)

Our DSLs can be contacted via the office on 01453 763793. In addition, advice and guidance can be sought from the Local Authority Designated Officer by emailing LADO@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Online safety

New technologies have become integral to the lives of young people today, both within schools and colleges and in their lives outside school and college.
The internet and other digital and information technologies are powerful tools, which open new opportunities for everyone. Electronic communication helps teachers and students learn from each other. These technologies can stimulate discussion, promote creativity and increase awareness of context to promote effective learning. Young people should always have an entitlement to safe internet access.

The aim of the school and college online safety policy is to ensure safe and appropriate ICT use and guard against the dangers that new technologies may bring. The Prevent Duty expects the use of content filtering as a means of restricting access to harmful material online and is paramount in our strategy to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.

Online safety features throughout the curriculum and is specifically taught as part of our PSHE lessons. Staff members at St Rose’s receive regular updates regarding online safety

Operation Encompass

Our school is part of Operation Encompass.
Operation Encompass is a national police and education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people who experience Domestic Violence and Abuse, and which is in place in every police force in England and Wales. Children were recognised as victims of domestic abuse in the 2021 Domestic Abuse Act.
Operation Encompass means that the police will share information with our school about all police attended Domestic Abuse incidents which involve any of our children prior to the start of the next school day.

Jo Pearch – DDSL (Lead Nurse/Care Manager) is our lead for Operation Encompass