Safeguarding and Child Protection
Safeguarding at St Thomas More VC Academy
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Everyone who meets children, their families and carers have a role to play in safeguarding children.
If you have any concerns about the health, safety, wellbeing of a child at the school, or feel that something may be troubling them, you should share this information with one of our Safeguarding Team.
This may be done verbally in the first instance but always be followed up by completing a cause for concern form, available from the Designated Safeguarding Team.
In the unlikely event of the Designated Safeguarding Officers not being available the matter should be reported directly to the Local Authority (Hull City Council) Early Help and Safeguarding Hub 01482 448879, (East Riding Council) Safeguarding and Partnership Hub 01482 395500 or Police/ Family Protection Unit.
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Our Designated Safeguarding Lead is Miss Lynn Stansfield
Our deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead is Mrs Rachel Hutcherson
Our link Safeguarding Lead is Miss Emma Smith (tel. 825625)
The Trust Director with responsibility for Safeguarding is Mr James Sargeant
Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy
The guidelines and procedures that we follow are detailed within our Child Protection Policy:
This supports statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment:
Operation Encompass
We are an Operation Encompass school.
Operation Encompass provides a set of of simple and effective procedures which together enable police forces to efficiently and effectively communicate with the schools attended by children who have been exposed to domestic abuse or other forms of adverse childhood experience.
You can find out more here:
Useful Websites/Information Sources/Numbers
- Talk to Childline on the telephone - 0800 11 11 (free to call 24 hours a day)
- Talk to The Samaritans on the telephone - 116123
- Talk to NSPCC on the telephone - 0808 800 5000 (professional counsellors available 24/7 for help and advice)
- Contact the school duty nurses by telephone (01482) 344301/336634 or via email at hull.cypcommunityservices@nhs.net