Safeguarding and Child Protection
As part of our commitment to keeping children in our care safe, we adhere to a range of government documents and legislation.
Reporting Safeguarding Concerns.
Should you have any safeguarding concerns relating to your child or others, our Designated Safeguarding Lead is Ms. N. Chippendale who can be contacted via the school office on 01204 322370 or via email: SEND@theolivetreeprimary.com. In Ms. Chippendale's absence, the following people deal with safeguarding concerns on her behalf:
Deputy Safeguarding Leads: Mr H. Neville/Mrs Z. Patel
Extended Safeguarding Team: Miss M. Patel, Mr R. Coley, Mr A. Musa, Mrs A. Bobat, Mrs S. Mangera
Early Help.
Early Help means providing support as soon as a problem emerges, at any point in a child’s life. At the Olive Tree Primary School, we refer to Bolton’s Framework for action, which provides guidance on how Early Help should be delivered to facilitate a high quality, collaborative approach to holistic assessment, support and planning and enable positive outcomes. For this to be effective, all agencies are required to work together to:
Identify children and families who would benefit from support
Undertake an assessment of need
Provide services to address those needs
Review progress to ensure that positive change has happened
What Is the Early Help Offer at The Olive Tree Primary School?
The Early Help Offer identifies the need for help for children and families as soon as problems start to emerge, or when there is a strong likelihood that problems will emerge in the future. The Early Help Offer includes universal and targeted services designed to reduce or prevent specific problems from escalating or becoming entrenched.
What Does the Early Help Offer Mean for Families?
The Olive Tree Primary School is committed to:
Supporting young people and families, offering early help to avoid escalation of issues
Ensuring a multi-disciplinary approach that brings a range of professional skills and expertise to bear
Building positive relationships with students and their families, co-ordinating the support needed from other agencies
Practice that empowers families and helps them to develop the capacity to resolve their own problems
A holistic approach that addresses children’s needs in the wider family context
A simple, streamlined referral and assessment processes – the ‘early help’ assessment of need.
Any child may benefit from early help, but all school staff should be particularly alert to the potential need of Early Help!
The Olive Tree Primary school adheres to Bolton’s Framework for Action and will implement the Early Help process to support the wellbeing of children and families by tackling emerging needs at the earliest opportunity and prevent them from getting worse. This also includes working with a range of external agencies - known as the Multi-disciplinary team - to ensure the highest level of care and support for our pupils and their families. The Multidisciplinary Team include:
INA (International New arrivals) – 01204 338055 acis@bolton.gov.uk
Bolton Behaviour Support Service – 01204 338133 behavioursupportservice@bolton.gov.uk
Bolton Children and Adolescents Community mental Health Service – 01204 482333 boh-tr.boltoncamhs@nhs.net
Bolton Information and advisory Service SEND- 01204 848722. iasoutofhours@outluck.com www.iasbolton.com
Bolton Integrated Health and Wellbeing Service. Via the allocated School Nurse Jennie McGrath (Runworth Team) – 01204 337578.
Bolton Parent Carers – www.boltonparents.org.uk. info@boltonparents.org.uk. Facebook page and group – Bolton Parent Carers.
Early Intervention Services – 01204 334202. Supporting schools and families in relation to school attendance.
Ladywood Outreach Service 01204 333400. Supporting the needs of learners from 2-19 years with a range of cognition and learning needs, speech and language and communication needs and pupils with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy – 01204 462670. CommunityTherapyAdmin@boltonft.nhs.uk
Supporting Mental Health.
Kooth & Qwell are online mental health services, providing free, safe and anonymous mental health and wellbeing support in Bolton. Kooth.com is available for ages 11-25, while Qwell.io is available for those aged 26+. There are no costs, no waiting lists, no referrals and no criteria required to access the service, which is accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and delivered by Kooth plc, the UK’s largest digital mental health provider.You can access peer to peer support through moderated discussion boards, and self help resources including magazine articles and activities. We also offer onlinetext-based counselling and support from qualified counsellors and emotional wellbeing practitioners, who are available from 12 noon - 10pm on weekdays and from 6pm - 10pm on weekends. You can access this support today: www.Kooth.com or www.Qwell.io.