Safeguarding

Safeguarding Children

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and their families and carers has a role to play in safeguarding children.

Meet our safeguarding team

Mrs L Graywahl - Designated Safeguarding Lead 

Mrs T Jones - Deputy Safeguarding Lead 

Further information

In order to fulfil this responsibility effectively, we have made available the below documents to give you further advice and information.

• HCAT Child-Protection-Policy-Sep-24 download_for_offline
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• Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 download_for_offline
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• What-to-do-if-you re-worried-a-child-is-being-abused download_for_offline
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• Working-Together-to-Safeguard-Children download_for_offline
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Safeguarding contact information

Contact details during school hours:

Contact a member of our team on 01482 814160 

Contact Hull City Council EHaSH Team on 01482 448879

Out of school hours or during school holidays:

If your concern is urgent and there is an immediate risk of harm, then contact the Police on 999 

If your concern is less urgent, but you are worried for the welfare of a child, then contact Hull City Council EHaSH on 01482 448879

If you have a concern about a child at Longhill Primary School, which you believe staff need to know about, then contact:
Suzanne Wilson (Strategic Safeguarding Lead for HCAT): 
swilson@hcat.org.uk.
Ms Wilson will then make contact with a key member of staff from the academy on your behalf.

Operation Encompass

Operation Encompass is a police and education early information sharing partnership enabling schools to offer immediate support for children and young people experiencing domestic abuse. Information is shared by the police with a school’s trained Key Adult (DSL) prior to the start of the next school day after officers have attended a domestic abuse incident thus enabling appropriate support to be given, dependent upon the needs and wishes of the child.

Children experiencing domestic abuse are negatively impacted by this exposure; domestic abuse has been identified as an Adverse Childhood Experience and can lead to emotional, physical and psychological harm. Operation Encompass aims to mitigate this harm by enabling immediate support, making a child’s day better and giving them a better tomorrow.

Operation Encompass believes that children are victims of domestic abuse in their own right and should be acknowledged as such.