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This section provides the documents and information we have been asked to provide for parents by the Department for Education. You can use these pages to download key school policies and other important materials. The school are happy to provide a hard copy of any information on this website free of charge. Should you require translations or explanations of any of these documents we will endeavour to offer this service. Please feel free to Contact Us.
Silsoe VC Lower School is committed to maintaining the highest standards of child protection, honesty, openness and accountability and as such employs a whistle blowing policy for all employees.
With regard to Educational Visits - Silsoe VC Lower School uses Central Bedfordshire Council 'EVOLVE' online management system and adheres to all policy within for each individual visit.
Operation Encompass
Our school is signed up to the Operation Encompass initiative that runs jointly between Schools, Central Bedfordshire Council and Bedfordshire Police. Operation Encompass focuses on early notification to schools of any reported domestic abuse incidents that occur which might have a significant impact on a child in school.
Operation Encompass will contact the Key Adult (our Designation Safeguarding Lead or Deputy) prior to the start of the next school day (for high risk incidents) or by lunchtime (for lower risk incidents) to share relevant information in confidence, so that support can be offered or provision can be made to those children, or their families, who have experienced a domestic abuse incident if necessary.
Our school is signed up to the Operation Encompass initiative that runs jointly between Schools, Central Bedfordshire Council and Bedfordshire Police. Operation Encompass focuses on early notification to schools of any reported domestic abuse incidents that occur which might have a significant impact on a child in school.
Operation Encompass will contact the Key Adult (our Designation Safeguarding Lead or Deputy) prior to the start of the next school day (for high risk incidents) or by lunchtime (for lower risk incidents) to share relevant information in confidence, so that support can be offered or provision can be made to those children, or their families, who have experienced a domestic abuse incident if necessary.
NSPCC