Safeguarding at Silvertrees

All the governors and staff at Silvertrees Academy share the same objective to help keep all children safe by contributing to:

• Providing a safe environment for them to learn.
• Identifying children who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harm and take appropriate action with the aim of making sure that they are kept safe both at home and in school.

​To achieve our objective to keep all children safe we aim to:

• Prevent unsuitable people from working with the children.
• Promote safe practices.
• Identify instances where there are concerns about a child’s welfare and take appropriate action to keep them safe.
• Contribute to effective partnership working between all those involved in providing services for our children.

The Designated Teachers for Safeguarding at Silvertrees Academy are:

Designated Safeguarding Lead - Mrs Karen Kirkham 

Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead - Miss Donna Wallace

Other Level 3 trained safeguarding team members:

Safeguarding team - Mrs Ruth Turvey

Safeguarding team - Mr James Grant

Safeguarding team - Mrs Mel Lowe

Safeguarding team - Miss Gemma Coombs

Safeguarding team - Miss Jenni Cox

Safeguarding team - Mrs Leah Jenner-Flukes

Operation Encompass

As a Sandwell School we are part of Operation Encompass which is a Police and Education early intervention safeguarding partnership that supports children and young people exposed to Domestic Abuse.  It aims to ensure Schools are notified in a timely manner of any Domestic Abuse incident where children are present or registered at the address.  

If you or anyone you know is affected by domestic abuse you can seek help through the school or through Black Country Women’s Aid (Sandwell) who can be reached on 0121 553 0090 or http://www.sandwellwomensaid.co.uk.

In every force, in every school, for every child.

Our safeguarding policy is attached below but can also be found in our Policies section.