Operation Encompass

At Haywards Farm School, we are working in partnership with the Thames Valley Police and Children’s Services to identify and provide appropriate support to pupils who have experienced domestic violence in their household; this scheme is called Operation Encompass. Please click on the link to read more about it:

  about-operation-encompass.pdf

The purpose of Operation Encompass is to safeguard and support children and young people who have been involved in or been witness to a domestic abuse incident.

Domestic abuse impacts on children in a number of ways. Children are at increased risk of physical injury during an incident, either by accident or because they attempt to intervene. Even when not directly injured, children are greatly distressed by witnessing the physical and emotional suffering of a parent.

Operation Encompass has been created to highlight this situation. It is the implementation of key partnership work between the police and schools. The aim of sharing information with local schools is to allow ‘key adults’, Alex Walsh and Emily Covell, the opportunity of engaging with the child and to provide access to support that allows them to remain in a safe but secure familiar environment. 

In order to achieve this, the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Team will share police information of all domestic incidents where one of our pupils has been present, with the Designated Safeguarding Lead(s) (DSL). 

On receipt of any information, the DSL will decide on the appropriate support the child requires. We will record this information and store this information in line with our Safeguarding Policy.

Further information can be found by clicking on the following link:
 https://www.operationencompass.org