Market Harborough CE Primary Academy fully recognises the contribution it can make to protect children and support pupils in school. The aim of the policy is to safeguard and promote our pupils’ welfare, safety and health by fostering an honest, open, caring and supportive climate. Our safeguarding policy is below. If you have any concerns about a child at our school, please contact:

Designated Safeguarding Lead - Sarah Bodycote - [email protected] or one of our Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads - Mrs E Tayler, Mrs H White, Mr N Lee, Ms E Biddle, Mrs S Ingram, Mrs R Fowler and Mr J Harrison.

For access to Learn-AT's Safeguarding policies, please click the following link: https://www.learnat.uk/about-learn-at/documents-and-policies/policies

We also encourage children to submit their concerns through our "worry box" which can be found here.

MHCE is an Operation Encompass School

Operation Encompass is a police and education early information safeguarding partnership enabling schools to offer immediate support to children experiencing domestic abuse.

Operation Encompass ensures that there is a simple telephone call or notification to a school’s trained Designated Safeguarding Lead /Officer (known as Key Adult) prior to the start of the next school day after an incident of police attending domestic abuse where there are children related to either of the adult parties involved. 

Information is shared with a school’s Key Adult (Designated Safeguarding Lead or Officer) prior to the start of the next school day after officers have attended a domestic abuse incident. This sharing of information enables appropriate support to be given, dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child.

Children are negatively impacted by experiencing domestic abuse and, without early intervention and support, this negative impact can last through a child’s life course.  Domestic abuse can impact upon social, psychological, physical, emotional and behavioural outcomes with an often negative impact upon a child’s academic success. Experiencing domestic abuse has been identified as an Adverse Childhood Experience.

Operation Encompass aims, by directly connecting police and schools, to secure better outcomes for children, to enable schools to better understand the impact living with domestic abuse has upon children, to help schools to better understand a child’s lived experience and to therefore be able to support and nurture each child, making a child’s day better and giving them a better tomorrow.