Pre School Safeguarding

Safeguarding is at the centre of all we do at Newcroft Pre School.  Safeguarding our children is the responsibility of all staff in our school. 

If you have concerns about a child within school hours, please contact the office and ask for Mrs Collins, our Pre School Designated Safeguarding Leader or Mrs Aukland, who is our school Designated Safeguarding Leader on 01509 503214. If you have a concern out of hours and need help or need to report a concern, call 0116 305 0005. This will direct you to Leicestershire Children's Social Services. If a child is immediately at risk, please call the Police. 

We are proud to work successfully in partnership with families and professional services to support our pupils. 

Our comprehensive safeguarding policy is available in our policies tab. This is supported by our Low Level Concerns policy, Anti Bullying policy, Child on Child Abuse Policy, Online Safety policy, Behaviour policy, Relationships and Sex Education policy and Designated Teacher for Looked After Children policy.

Our school is part of Operation Encompass. This is a police and education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people who experience Domestic Abuse. Our school is currently taking part in a pilot Operation Encompass information sharing study, which involves the police sharing information with the school's DSL/ DDSLs about incidents reported to them that may have caused trauma to a child. This involves reporting incidents that the police have attended where they feel there has been an impact upon a child’s physical, emotional or mental well-being. This information is shared so that our school can better understand children’s living experience and can support, nurture and care for them more effectively.

You can find out more about PREVENT here and how we support parents. Please also find our Prevent Risk Assessment here. 

Our Designated Safeguarding Leader is Mrs Sara Aukland, Head teacher. Mrs Aukland is also the Prevent leader for the school. 

Our Deputy Designated Safeguarding leaders are Miss Alice Brailsford, Deputy Head teacher, and Mrs Hannah Wicks, Assistant Head teacher and Miss Issy Veazey, Assistant Head teacher. Mrs Collins is also our Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leader for our Pre School setting only. 

Should parents or members of the public have any concerns or worries about a pupil in our school, please get in touch with Mrs Aukland via the office.